Stuart BEBB From Science to Social

These days Stuart Bebb is one of the most respected social photographers on the circuit, but before he moved into the world of weddings and portraits he spent 20 years in the science sector

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They do say that if you have a good strong set of photographic skills that you could turn your hand to virtually any area of the business and Stuart Bebb is a living, breathing example that proves the point. After attending the famous Blackpool College School of Photography in the late 70s he moved into the world of commercial and scientific photography following graduation, and for the next 20 years he worked first at the Oxford Eye Hospital and then as senior photographer with the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford.

“I was involved in much of the photography for all of the major physics experiments that Oxford was involved in at the time,” he recalls, “including the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at Cern, the Cassini space mission and the search for Dark Matter, which involved experiments in Italy and Germany.

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“Wedding photography was always something that I ran as a business separate from my physics work, and I picked up a lot of my skills in this area from Roy Doorbar and Ian Gee. I first got to know Roy from when he was a part-time lecturer at Blackpool during the time I was studying and he’s a great teacher.”

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Eventually the lure of social photography proved too strong and Stuart finally decided to make this his full-time business. Although he had been working in this area for some time he still realised that he needed to develop a whole new skill set in order to survive and as he looked around for places where he could go to acquire the business and marketing know-how that he needed to back up his technical knowledge, friends recommended that he should consider joining the SWPP.

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