People ask me what I like about being a documentary photographer. I tell them that I love the special gift that comes with being a photographer; the privileged ability to record memories and moments in time. And if successful, to each viewer, the image will retell the very story that the photographer saw, a story that moved them so much that they chose to document that moment.
It was during a fashion shoot that I spotted this couple sitting by the waters edge. Seeing them huddled up, looking out over a tempestuous sea made me pause a moment, reset my camera and capture a memory they thought might only be theirs.
What was the moment that I saw? A story of lovers oblivious to anything else. Their world stood still – it was just them, their love and the sea.
[Best viewed whilst listening to ‘By the Sea’ by Suede, if you will]