sara.red
wedding photographer in ottawa
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” (Maya Angelou)
I admire Maya Angelou’s work and life and I aspire to have the same mission in my life. Similarly, I have great respect for Angela Merkel and love this quote from her which I can 100% relate to.
“I have no charisma…and I’m not good at communicating.” “Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.” (Angela Merkel)
Previously based in London, UK, I’ve recently moved to Ottawa, Canada and have been a professional photographer for over twenty years. I had my own darkroom in a downstairs bathroom during high school in Australia and went on to study photography at University at the Queensland College of Art. Just before finishing my degree, I vividly recall declaring that I would never do weddings as I wanted to be an artist or a documentary photographer. However, after my own wedding, I realised how profoundly important this event is in people’s lives. So I made the decision to apply all the technical and creative skills that I had learned to the photography of weddings because I saw this as a way to bring tangible and genuine value to people’s lives. At its core, a wedding celebrates love and I can’t think of anything better to document than this.
I’m grateful to still be in touch with the very first couple whose wedding I photographed. I’ve done portraits of their children and subsequently photographed the weddings of their friends and their friend’s friends. It is a privileged and humbling position to be able to document such important events in people’s lives.
Why sara.red?
I adore having red things around me because for me, red represents love, life and passion. One year my husband bought me this domain as a birthday gift so that I could use it as a home for my website. It’s one of my favourite ever presents because it suits me perfectly and no one else in the world would think to buy me a domain as a gift. So what better web address could there be for a wedding photography website than ‘sara.red’, which was lovingly gifted by the man I am married to.
