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Photographer Gurvir Johal Interview - part 5 of 1 2 3 4 5 6

by Angela Adams Published 01/10/2016

When I photograph brides, I capture them the same way I would want pictures of my sisters on their wedding days.

Is this because culturally, the bride is leaving the family when she marries, and it feels like a great loss, amongst the obvious joy?

Oh man, sometimes it can become hard to talk about this without getting emotional about it too. From a bride's family's perspective, the Doli/Vidaai marks the departure of the bride from her parental house. This is a traditionally sad ritual, as the bride says goodbye to her parents, siblings and rest of her family. It is usually a bitter-sweet part of the day; on one hand a bride's family are happy that she is getting married and moving onto the next chapter of her life, and on the other, they are letting go of their daughter/sister.

Do you enter competitions ... if so, is it with your day-to-day work or do you shoot specifically to create a competition image?

I enter competitions regularly, it helps me grow and being competitive is good. Most of the images I enter are from weddings, so are from day-to-day work. However, I usually know when I’m 'in the mode', creating the image in my mind before I even press the shutter which I know will be for competition. Then I push myself harder to make the image the best it can be.

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