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All the latest news from multi-award winning wedding photographers, filmmakers, authors and educators York Place Studios
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York Place Studios - Award-winning wedding photographers | Photography Competition Judges | Authors | International Speakers & Educators
Over the years we have been extremely fortunate to be awarded various accolades, be asked to judge prestigious competitions, be invited to appear in podcasts and magazines and speak and teach at numerous events. Here you can find all the headlines of our latest photographic adventures.
"Is This Something?" now on sale at Fujifilm House of Photography, Covent Garden.
Our book "Is This Something?" is going on sale at Fujifilm's amazing House Of Photography, and to celebrate we're hosting a free live Q&A and "meet the authors" event in Covent Garden
York Place Team exhibiting at The Photography & Video Show!
We had a stand at the 2024 Photography & Video show in Birmingham, selling our book as well as speaking at the event.
"Is This Something?" officially launched!
We're thrilled to announce the launch of our new book "Is This Something?"
Set over the course of a wedding day but with principles applicable to all forms of photography, "Is This Something?" is our ultimate workshop, filled with all of our ideas, principles, contact-sheets and techniques formed over nearly two decades of shooting.
Set over the course of a wedding day but with principles applicable to all forms of photography, "Is This Something?" is our ultimate workshop, filled with all of our ideas, principles, contact-sheets and techniques formed over nearly two decades of shooting.
Dominique & Liam Interviewed on "This Is Reportage" Podcast
Listen to Dominique & Liam's recent appearance on the brilliant "This Is Reportage" podcast, talking all about our new photography workshop book "Is This Something?"
London Street Photography Festival Finalists
We were thrilled that two of Liam's street-style photographs captured at weddings were finalists in the prestigious London Street Photography Festival - the only wedding images to compete in the contest.
York Place special feature in Cameracraft Magazine
We were honoured to be interviewed by Cameracraft Magazine and featured in a multi-page spread all about York Place Studios and our pioneering street-inspired documentary wedding photography style.
York Place Street Photography Exhibition
We were incredibly proud to have a curated collection of our Cuban street photography images exhibited in Newcastle, UK. Thanks to everyone who attended the grand launch event.
Eyes sharpened by Street Photography, Dom & Liam demonstrate a wealth of digital street and wedding photography techniques, embodying the best qualities of traditional film-based approaches
- Cameracraft Magazine
Dominique Featured in Fujifilm Official X-E3 Launch Video
Dominique starred in the launch video for Fujifilm's new X-E3 camera and XF27mmF2.8 R WR lens - a combo that quickly became one of her favourites for street photography and occasional wedding usage.
Dominique & Liam Speak at Ninedots 2023
Dominique & Liam were invited to give a mini-masterclass at the 2023 Ninedots Gathering in Leeds.
"Professional Photo" Magazine Feature
we were delighted to be featured in Professional Photo Magazine, talking all about our photographs and films and the brand new Fujifilm cameras we're using to capture them.
York Place team interviewed on Ninedots Podcast Episode 41
"Is This Something?" authors Dominique & Liam were interviewed on the always entertaining Ninedots Podcast, talking all about the book, photographing weddings and being a brother and sister team.
Abbey Road Studios
We were incredibly fortunate to get the opportunity and be invited to photograph at Abbey Road Studios for Holly Jazz Lowe and Dave Lowe for their album "A Temporal Shift" recorded by a 50 piece orchestra.
Interview with @LAYNA FERNANDEZ_STREET
Dominique was interviewed by Layna Fernandez a Barcelona street photographer on her popular Twitch channel live with a translator.
They are incredibly passionate about shooting with a true documentary eye. Nothing is staged or posed but still very intentional and crafted. They often shoot wide and use layers to build a scene and relay a rich narrative within each frame
- Professional Photo Magazine
Boring Conference
Liam and Dominique were invited to speak at the famous Boring Workshop conference in Warsaw, Poland and one of their images was printed and displayed big in front of this iconic building.
Viewing "Is This Something?" Proof
We were so excited to receive our "Is This Something?" proof and finally get to see our book in print.
Doc Day Dublin, Ireland
We loved returning to Dublin to speak at our favourite documentary photography conference. The conference promotes only reportage photography and it is wonderful to speak and spend time with like minded photographers. Since speaking in 2022 the event has grown and grown and this time we were speaking in front of a cinema full of photographers!
Limitless Workshop, Bali
One of the highlights of our speaking career so far has been speaking in Bali, Indonesia. We presented an all day workshop with a group of very talented photographers (who had humblingly travelled as far as Japan, New Zealand and Australia to see us!) After our presentation we all went out to the beach to continue the learning on location.
Signing "Is This Something?"
A real perk of writing a book is the fact that people across the globe would like it signed either they ask us when they purchase from our online shop or when they see us at conferences and events.
Keep It Real, Berlin
The first conference we ever spoke at back in 2017 at the Delphi Film Palace in Berlin. Presenting in front of an entire cinema of wedding photographers.
"Dom and Liam transfer their roots of street photography to weddings by taking reportage literally and photographing ordinary moments and situations in a unique, interesting and creative way. You don't need extraordinary places with extraordinary people to create a successful reporting. They will tell us on the 17th how they manage to capture their somewhat quirky moments with a lot of humor in any situation."
"Dom and Liam transfer their roots of street photography to weddings by taking reportage literally and photographing ordinary moments and situations in a unique, interesting and creative way. You don't need extraordinary places with extraordinary people to create a successful reporting. They will tell us on the 17th how they manage to capture their somewhat quirky moments with a lot of humor in any situation."
York Place Studios letting us inside their incredibly focused and brilliant minds at Doc Day (Dublin 2024)
- Ben & Erin
Chrisman Studios
Chrisman Studios
Oaxaca, Mexico Workshop
In 2019 we went to Oaxaca, Mexico to photograph the famous Calle de Los Muertos Day Of the Dead and were given by Fujifilm a prototype of the X-Pro3 to try out. Towards the end of the trip we also hosted our very first Mexican workshop and it was a humbling experience to have this opportunity, we absolutely love teaching and to get the chance to educate people halfway across the world in such a beautiful, vibrant city was a treat for us for sure.
Sri Lanka Street Trip
We went to Sri Lanka in 2017 to create street photography with the Fujifilm X-Pro2. We were still at the intial stages of developing our wedding street photography style and we wanted to spend a few weeks playing with the camera, challenging ideas and getting some new photos for our porfolio.
They defy convention when it comes to their wedding work. Their aim is to show what it actually felt like to be at a particular wedding." "They are drawn to the humorous and unstaged parts of the day and use a keen sense of observation to connect elements in a frame so that everything visible relates to the story
- Pic-Time
Burn Workshop Live Interview
Before heading to Belfast for the Burn wedding photography conference in Ireland we were interviewed live on Facebook.
Fujifilm School
We have spoken at countless Fujifilm events as X Photographers and before and after. These events take place at amateur and professional photography conferences and range from a small group of people to hundreds. we often have the same people come to see us countless times which is great to see.
In Public Street Collective
We got selected by Graciela Magnoni in the prestigious Street Photo Collective. Graciela comments were "brilliant candid shots with lots of layers, colours and humour. Lots of fun shots, very refreshing".
Fujifilm Exhibition
Our street photos of Cuba were exhibited at Fujifilm House of Photography in London alongside our X Photographer fellow peers.
Fujifilm Live Event
Dominique was chosen to speak at a women in photography event for International Women's Day where she was interviewed live alongside a panel for Fujifilm.
Fundy Workshop Event
Alongside Scott Johnson (a fellow wedding photographer and Fundy Ambassador) Dominique ran a Fundy workshop sharing her ideas and concepts on photography with a practical street workshop at Fujifilm's House of Photography and the streets of London.
You guys are the masters, your work inspires me no end. I pay homage. You guys are consistently at the top.
- We Are The Parsons
Fer Juaristi Pateron Channel
We were invited on Fer's extremely popular Patreon channel to discuss our new book "Is This Something?" and the popular wedding street photography style that originated with us.
Award chosen by Carol Guzy (Photojournalist)
We have won various awards over the years but we were particuarly pleased with this one, selected by photojournalist Carol Guzy and awarded for "The Decisive Moment".
Top 25 Women in Photography by Fujifilm
Dominique was delighted to be picked as one of the top 25 women in photography (not just weddings!) by Fujifilm. They said the photos were funny, smart, heartfelt and touching. It was a really lovely honour.
X Weddings Conference
We were invited to speak at the X Weddings conference in Bath hosted by Kevin Mullins, a fellow Fujifilm X Photographer.
Fujifilm Superia 200 film article
Cameracraft magazine article on our trip to Sri Lanka and the joy of photographing with film.
Crefest Conference
We were asked to speak in Barcelona at the festival conference Crefest and presented on the main stage and did a two day workshop translated from English into Spanish.
You both exemplify world-class documentary.
To a lot of people when they think 'documentary wedding photography', they think "York Place Studios" they really are that synonymous with the craft.
- This Is Reportage
This is Reportage UK & International Award winner
Liam was awarded the This is Reportage crown (internationally and in the UK). Collectively we have won 30 awards to date, a selection of individual frames and story awards.
United Kingdom’s Top Fearless Wedding Photographer
Fearless has an international reputation for celebrating extraordinary wedding images that break the norm. A highly curated competition, only around 1-3% of entries come away with Fearless Awards (about 150 photos out of typically around 10,000 entries) so we were delighted that as a team we won 7 and with Liam winning 4 of those that made him the Best UK Wedding Photographer
Rangefinder Photography Annual First Place Winner
We have some very exciting news to share today as we recently found out that we were a Rangefinder Photography Annual First Place Winner with Liam’ s gorgeous photo “The Snow Bride”! The work will be featured in a gallery exhibition at the WPPI Conference & Expo taking place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
WPJA Award winner
We have won countless awards over the years from the Wedding Photo Journalist Association, the interesting part of this competition is the fact that the work has to have been made from the year you enter so ensures the award winning images are your present portfolio and is strictly documentary photography.
ISPWP Award winner
The International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers celebrates photography from all styles and types of photography and we have won many awards in this prestigious competition since 2006.
Masters of Wedding Photography
Masters of Wedding Photography is an international competition celebrating wedding photography of all styles and genre and different countries or areas each have their own awards. Liam was recently honoured to be asked to judge the German, Austria and Switzerland version and we decided shortly after to join the UK and Ireland edition. We were very happy to discover today that our first entry into the competition won (an apparently record breaking!) 15 awards, putting us in first place in Round 1 of the 2020-2021 super season.
Recently we were at a wedding and there was a bit of chaos and we both said simultaneously ok only York Place can organise information here!!
Let's call them!
- The Richters
BODAF Photography Conference
We were extremely proud to be asked to speak at the biggest international wedding photography conference in Europe. Being asked to speak at BODAF's conference in Barcelona was incredibly humbling. Here's what they had to say on us: "We're passionate about so-called wedding photojournalism and the guys from yorkplacestudios do it better than anyone".
Scott Carney's podcast Photographers Keeping it Real
Scott interviewed us on his highly successful podcast "Photographers Keeping it Real" about our new book "Is This Something?" We also discuss what it was like to work as a duo, our trademark wedding street photography style, showing what you want to shoot and attracting ideal clients.
Residency of the North & South
Being an ambassador for Digitalab means that we get to try out new products before they are available to the public, we help to develop new ideas with the team and we speak at events! We have spoken at two events for Digitalab, Residency of the North and South.
Photographing Nothing
Back in 2020 we did a free Nine Dots event for people to watch about "Photographing Nothing". It reached over 4000 people and was a huge success. That presentation was the catalyst of creating our international selling book "Is This Something?"
Doc Day
We loved our first Doc Day conference in Dublin. We premiered our new talk "Is This Something?" and we had great feedback on it from the attendees. We also announced that our new book was coming soon!
Photography Academy
The Photographer Academy interviewed us for their Big Photo Issue and we talked all about breaking the rules and the street style wedding photography that we pioneered.
When you have street photographers shoot your wedding and these are the first two photos you see, you know it's
York Place Studios
- Creagh Cross
Romania judging competition
fotografi-cameramani.ro asked us to judge their Romania competition twice in 2024 and 2025. It is always a honour to judge competitions especially when they are such prestigious international awards.
The book starts to arrive!
We absolutely love seeing the book arrive to so many different countries, our book has been sent to Poland, Mexico, America, Canada, Israel, Spain, France to name just a few!
Signing books at Fujifilm
Our book is available to buy at the Fujifilm House of Photography in Covent Garden, London. Here we are signing books at the "Meet the authors" event.
Hello friend, we just want you to know that we think your work is important. This industry needs more people like you that tells the truth.
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- Jeremy, Ash, Nate, Jac and Wyn
Displayed at The Photography Show on behalf of Fujifilm
We were loaned a prototype 1.0 50mm lens to trial and get photos for Fujifilm for the launch. This photo of our nephew was used in countless magazines and was in a large campaign in Japan.
The Photography Show Speaking Events
We have been asked to speak on the main stage at The Photography Show many times over the years, this was our latest presentation "Is This Something?"
Dom & Liam don't just tell you how to make better pictures, they show you how too using their phenomenal imagery and examples. Their passion for what they do married to an iconic backlog of photos is both engaging and infectious.
- Doc Day
Japan Street trip
Back in 2018 we headed to Japan to try out the Fujifilm GFX and visit Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. When we first started shooting street the overall purpose was to open our minds to finding different kinds of shots on a wedding day. Now, several years on, it was time to flip that on its head and see what our wedding storytelling could bring to the streets.
X-Pro 3 Protype
Being an ambassador for Fujifilm meant that we got to try out the newest cameras for them before they were released to the public. We were the first photographers in the UK to be given the X-Pro3 to try out and review, code name "Titan". We took the camera to the Pickering War weekend for it's first trial outside.
Cuba Street Photography
Cuba was our first proper street trip and we had the most fun capturing the real cuban life and meeting and hanging out with the locals. We took the newly released X-Pro2 with us and the camera helped make our vision come true on how we wanted to shoot and thus street style wedding photography was born.