Paul Pope Photography

Growing up, I was always fascinated with 'how things work' - such as the way a scene could be captured by a pinhole camera I built using a shoebox and a milk bottle top. My journey in photography probably began at this moment, though I later went to University (with my camera in hand) to study Psychology and Neuroscience instead.

I documented student life at Keele University using a 35mm point and shoot camera (and a consumer digital camera), and purchased a professional digital SLR camera in the late 1990s. After graduating, I embarked on a Master's degree in London (UCL), and then a PhD in the Midlands (University of Birmingham). Wherever I studied, I had my camera around my neck. And to support myself, I started photographing weddings (having been asked to photograph one a few years earlier).

I quickly became recognized in the Midlands for documenting weddings by means of photojournalistic images and artistic portraiture.