Rachel Whitaker
Having started photography at the age of 17 by building a darkroom at home, Rachel London’s photography experience spans eighteen years and counting. After living in East London where she focussed on product and venue photography, Rachel relocated and decided to shift focus to people and weddings.
During her London years, Rachel spent six years working as a BBC journalist and freelance radio producer, assisting on shows including Jeremy Vine’s Radio 2 show, Radio 1’s Sunday Surgery and BBC London’s Drive Time show - all whilst maintaining a love for photography in her spare time. Leaving London in 2016 led her to set up her wedding photography business and she now travels across the UK and abroad for work.
Despite a varied and colourful career, Rachel hails wedding photography as being “the best job I’ve ever had, by a long stretch”. As a self-proclaimed people-person, Rachel loves getting really involved with the day by chatting to guests, learning everyone’s names and mastering family dynamics quickly to ensure no stone remains unturned when photographing family groups, couples and all the different combinations from a big family get together. Dubbed “the party photographer”, she’s also known for getting on the dance floor, camera in hand, and dancing whilst shooting for hours on end in order to capture the madness of the party.
Her style is candid and documentary style, but with the odd posed moment for those arresting dramatic photographs. Her collections vary from being timeless and classic to then suddenly being very well-humoured and charming. Without influencing the day, she captures all the stories from a wedding in an unforgettable way.
Whether it’s working together on the same commission or apart on a separate shoot, Rachel and Mark compliment each other’s style, high quality and visual sensibility.
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Please note: Rachel is a long established and independent professional photographer and is not employed by Mark Bothwell. To this end Rachel’s rates and supply criteria may differ from Mark’s in some areas.