№ 09 · Wedding
Winter Park, Florida
Winter Park weddings, drawn from John's long working relationship with the Winter Park Racquet Club and the surrounding district.
The Winter Park Racquet Club sits on the lake; ceremonies close with the sun setting behind the pier. John has photographed weddings here for years, returning to the same light and the same families.
These frames collect a single evening at the club, ceremony on the lawn, dinner inside, and the long quiet hour on the dock after the band has stopped.
The Winter Park Racquet Club sits on the water, and the geometry of the place does most of the scheduling. Ceremonies on the lawn close with the sun going down behind the pier, which means the ceremony hour and the best light of the day are the same hour, and nothing about the timeline can be allowed to drift.
The dock afterward is the other reason to be here. Once the band has stopped and the party has moved inside it stays quiet and holds an odd blue light for twenty or thirty minutes, which is long enough to make the frames that end most of these galleries.
Winter Park is a small district and John has photographed in it for years. The work here has a way of repeating: a wedding, then a christening, then a younger sibling at the same club a decade later, frequently with the same relatives in the same second row.
That continuity is its own kind of access. Families who have been photographed before stop noticing the camera almost immediately, and the pictures from those evenings are markedly easier and markedly better for it.
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