White Room Photography: To stop time... start here...

I’m Gav Harrison, a West Yorkshire based wedding photographer, portrait photographer, event photographer and digital artist. Although I operate primarily within the West Yorkshire region, I am more than happy to travel throughout the UK and internationally.

My family have always loved photography. My Dad owned his own darkroom when I was growing up. I’ve always loved the ability to capture a moment in time and save it forever on a photograph. The only thing which disappointed me with traditional film photography was the amount of time it took from pressing the shutter release to seeing the results. (A lot of the time, peoples eyes were either half shut or they were captured halfway through speaking, giving the impression that they were dopey or grimacing! By the time you realised, a week had passed since taking the photo!)

In 2001, my brother kindly gave me my first digital camera. This technological breakthrough lit a fire within me! My ‘training’ started when I photographed nearly everyone and everything in sight, deleting any unusable photos, (without the panic of wasting precious film!) taking the photos straight into Photoshop to experiment and dabble. At this point I had no other reason to do this other than for my own personal pleasure. It was in 2004 after realising that I had a passion for photographing people that I decided to invest in some professional camera equipment, assisted a few other wedding photographers in the West Yorkshire region in order to build a portfolio of work, and in September of 2004, I launched my own photography business; White Room Photography & Imaging.

Within the following months, the equipment was paid off and bookings were starting to roll in. Weddings, Portraits, Product photography and Events, you name it, I snapped it!

With my educational background being within the Product Design discipline I have always promoted myself is ‘A digital artist who knows how to use a camera’ rather than a traditional photographer who has had to learn the digital side of the trade in order to secure their sustainability.

White Room was launched along side my day job; a full time role as Product Design Manager for a lighting firm before filling the diary so much as to hand my notice in to follow my passion full time in August 2007.

In the 4 years I worked part time on my photography business, I photographed multiple weddings in and around the Yorkshire region. Some of the beautiful venues included Ripley Castle, Rogerthorpe Manor, Gomersal Park Hotel, King’s Croft, Wood Hall, Hollins Hall, Oakwood Hall, Holdsworth House and Harewood House. Since August I have promoted myself heavily through wedding fairs and have secured plenty more bookings for the coming years. Some of the venues include; Allerton Castle, Castle Donnington, Valley Gardens in Harrogate, Healds Hall, Bowers Mill, Oulton Hall, York Racecourse, Rudding Park, Nostel Priory, Waterton Park, Thorpe Park and Burntwood Court.

I take huge amount of pride in the work I do and each and every photo put in your album (or frame) is worked on to the highest level of accuracy and care. I have never put a photo straight from the camera straight into an album, each image is treated like a work of art in order to ensure the album or product you have paid for is 100% to your satisfaction.

Please feel free to either visit me at an upcoming wedding fayre or contact me using contact me form to arrange a no-obligation consultation where I can take you through my demonstration albums and slideshows showcasing some of my most recent work.

Please also feel free to browse my galleries and please don’t forget to check out my photoblog, which is updated after every shoot I conduct. Hopefully this give you an indication of not only the quality of my work, but the consistency too.

Thanks for taking the time out to look at my work and read about me and my services.

“Photography is not only my profession, but my passion.”

Gav