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Coronavirus has taken its toll on all of us and has seen hundreds of thousands of weddings either postponed, canceled, or pared back to minimal guest numbers. The stress and disappointment this must have caused to brides and grooms throughout the world is quite unfathomable—and it has also had a massive effect on those working in the wedding industry.

Wedding photographers have indeed been hit hard, with many of their livelihoods now at risk; many who normally shoot 25 or more weddings a year have now been facing the reality of maybe only a handful, or even less.

 

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Tom Tomeij, Netherlands

Tom Tomeij, Netherlands

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FaJa2007
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This picture says so much about the CV-19 pandemic era we live in, but also about Respect, Happiness and Love! Really fantastic how this photographer captured the moment.

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But it's not all doom and gloom: During this time, some weddings have still been able to go ahead. Maybe they haven't been the grand-scale events that the couples once envisaged—or maybe they had been planning on eloping anyway!—but either way, people in love have been getting married, and photographers have been doing what they always do: Capturing the moments for them.

Because that's what we celebrate at “This is Reportage”: the real, un-staged and un-posed moments—documentary wedding photography at its very best.

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    Valter Antunes, Portugal

    Valter Antunes, Portugal

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    La Petite Morte
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a Rocky pose right there! Full of triumph and 'I won the whole thing!'

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    Lori-Anne Crewe, Canada

    Lori-Anne Crewe, Canada

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    Elizabeth Banuelos
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Certainly not the way it was planned. Almost everyone having to watch via Zoom (thank goodness for technology!), heartbroken that family and extended family couldn’t be there in person, and hearing everyone’s well wishes and seeing their tears without the benefit of hugs and closeness normally associated with a traditional wedding. This will be a day you never forget, and with photos like this captured by such an amazing photographer, it will be cherished forever.

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    Our Awards regularly see over 12,000 submissions, and all the following images represent just the top few percent that have been awarded by our judges (a changing group of world-class photographers themselves) over the past few months, during these Covid-19 times.

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    Our Reportage Awards are for those very best individual captures, and you'll also see some images from our Story Awards, which are for a series of 15-20 images of a single wedding.

    So, though it's been—and still is—possibly the worst imaginable year for the wedding world, we present 25 incredible documentary captures that show that love and weddings won't be stopped by coronavirus.

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    Kevin Kheffache, Ireland

    Kevin Kheffache, Ireland

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    Autumn Fhoxe
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so pretty... every time i try to take a picture of a screen it has wavy lines tho

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    Darren Kirwan, Ireland

    Darren Kirwan, Ireland

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    SoozeeQ
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's ironic that the social distancing sign is also in this pic! (But it is a lovely, candid wedding photo).

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    Mateusz Dobrowolski, Poland

    Mateusz Dobrowolski, Poland

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    KT
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wouldn't their breath just come out the bottom of that shield onto the cake?

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    Valter Antunes, Portugal

    Valter Antunes, Portugal

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    Autumn Fhoxe
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the guy on the left looks so so happy :) im sure the other guy is smiling just as much under the mask

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    Lyndsey Goddard, UK

    Lyndsey Goddard, UK

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    Levi Baker
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Super happy about all of these!! Clearly people actually DO care about getting the virus. All I have seen are news reports and such of people refusing to wear masks and follow protocols

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    Carlos Porfirio, Portugal

    Carlos Porfirio, Portugal

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    Autumn Fhoxe
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love how even though barely anyone could come, they still made the place as fancy as they wanted

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    Chelsea Cannar, UK

    Chelsea Cannar, UK

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    Kristof Claeys, Belgium

    Kristof Claeys, Belgium

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    Jill Streefland, Netherlands

    Jill Streefland, Netherlands

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    Valter Antunes, Portugal

    Valter Antunes, Portugal

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    Robyn Stephens
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    4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now this is more like it, the new social order, no kissing, no holding hands and everyone is wearing masks. All to protect the old and vulnerable. Now this is a bunch of caring people for our safety. Bravo to them. Now get back home and stay there until a vaccine comes out and the Governments of the world says it's safe.

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