Jess + Rob: Ever After, Devon
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ABOUT
I tell other people's stories. Here is a little bit about mine...
Hi my name is Richard and I’m a documentary wedding and commercial photographer based just outside London, UK where I live with my amazing wife and super-vet Nikki, and my DNA-identical-yet-polar-opposite twin boys Zac & Sam.
I spent much of the last 22 years in London – one of the busiest, craziest and brilliant metropolis’ in the world, but sea water runs through my veins. I grew up on the Sussex coast, where we relocated to in 2021, lived in Sydney for a while, and the first two years of Richard Murgatroyd Photography were spent on the beautiful north Devon coastline.
My two big passions outside my family and photography are travelling and music and in recent years I’ve rediscovered my love for playing the cello & piano. And alongside my Indian sitar, Tibetan singing bowl and Andean panpipes I fancy myself as an amateur global one-man-band, albeit in the last two years we’ve gained a drum kit, ukelele and bag pipes courtesy of my two boys!
Photography has been in my DNA my whole life and I’m lucky enough to have my dream job. It’s enabled me to photograph the likes of the BAFTAs and Royal Family as well as telling the stories of some fascinating people fighting to improve the welfare of humans, animals and the planet. My wedding, corporate and NGO commissions have taken in the likes of India, the USA, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Monaco, Ibiza, Italy, Portugal, Australia, Thailand, Mexico and the Balkans, and from the grandeur of Buckingham Palace to slums and the everyday of a back yard.
Like every job, photography has its own unique challenges, but I love the people I meet and the places it takes me to. I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to getting emotional during wedding ceremonies, feel a tingle of excitement catching a mountain sunrise or get a buzz from seeing the responses from my clients when they see their pictures for the first time.