Deirdre Alston is a truth-forward photographer with a penchant for colour, cinema, and emotion. She believes in the marrying of both film and digital mediums, making sure each detail and feeling on a wedding day is represented exactly as it was. She’s constantly chasing movement and subtlety, with a documentary perspective and a filmmaker’s eye. Her work has developed over eleven years in the industry to prioritize and balance the light-hearted essence of a party with the intimacy of romance to create photographs that truly feel like living heirlooms.
Website: https://deirdrealston.com/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/deirdre.alston
My first true love was photography. I picked up a film camera at fourteen years old and never looked back. By nineteen I was photographing my first wedding- a day that I will always remember. The day was tailored to the couple so perfectly, and they were only interested in artful candid’s, an approach that I’ve continued to apply to my work throughout the years. That day was extremely formative for me, and it led to me being completely obsessed with the industry and artistry of weddings. The intentionality and romance in film photography highly informs the way I photograph in both digital and film mediums to this day- and I look at each piece of a wedding as a soulful tapestry of my couple’s lives. Being trusted with their memories is the most precious thing to me.
Obsessed with themselves and their own personal cinematic universe.
Light. Movies. Music. Taking long walks. Drinking wine with my friends. People watching. Collaging. Collecting ephemera. Building a curated life that feels intentional is the most inspiring thing to me.
What are your favourite moments on a wedding day?
Every single one. Truly– the emotional landscape is so unreal and I feel so privileged to be let in on someone’s most intimate and sacred form of celebration.
I would love to shoot a wedding in New Zealand, Japan, or in the South of France.
