A big fat Indian wedding in SL bags Fearless award for Geeshan
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The award-winning picture
Well known wedding photographer Geeshan Bandara has won a second Fearless Award.
Fearless Photographers is a community of 3,000 of the world’s leading wedding photographers. These professionals are not afraid to push the boundaries of photography to surprise and delight clients with extraordinary images of their wedding day. The Fearless Competition is highly contested, with only the top 2% of over 9,000 submissions presented the prized Fearless Award.
Describing his Fearless Award-winning image Geeshan said, “This particular moment was from a recent Indian destination wedding held in Sri Lanka which are always colourful, sometimes chaotic and some of the toughest weddings to shoot. Set against the dramatic backdrop of a Sri Lankan coast, this was even more special.”
Geeshan believes his raw and unfiltered style, dubbed wedding photojournalism, is unique and remains a nascent art in Sri Lanka. Wedding Photojournalism is a comprehensive and artistic documentation of the day’s events in an unscripted manner. Photographers capture real moments – the laughter, unexpected tears, unbridled joy and everything in between. These are moments a trained and experienced eye sees and anticipates.
“There is an increasing desire to move away from the stilted, posed images that show a very static day, to capturing more depth and realism. The ultimate satisfaction is when our clients tell us how happy they were to relive their wedding day and all the moments they missed.”
While Geeshan’s first Fearless Award brought him international recognition in 2015, he is also the recipient of a series of other awards including two Reportage Awards, five Wedding Photojournalist Association Awards (WPJA), five International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers Awards(ISPWP) and 12 Professional Wedding Photographers’ of Canada Awards (PWPC).