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Brooke Taelor is a Houston-based, international wedding photographer known for work that is emotionally grounded and alive. Her photographs reflect a long-standing attentiveness to people and place, shaped by lived experience and an instinct for moments that hold meaning over time.

Her work has been featured in People (print), Carats & Cake, The Friend Club, and Rocky Mountain Bride, and was named Best Wedding in the 2018 Junebug Weddings Readers’ Choice Awards early in her career—an early signal of a practice rooted in intention and craft.

Before photography, Brooke worked in communications, where she developed a strong foundation in brand strategy, client relations, and professional execution. She graduated as the top scholar in her class from Texas State University, an academic grounding that continues to inform the rigor, clarity, and care she brings to her work.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

My work begins with attention. I believe the way we experience the world shapes the way we see others. Quiet, practiced, internal. Presence creates honest photographs. I am deeply interested in perception—slowing down enough to notice what is unfolding beneath the surface of a moment, and allowing that awareness to guide the resulting image.

My work is a collection of interrelated scenes rather than a single narrative arc. Small gestures, quiet exchanges, shifts in light. These are the elements that give a wedding its emotional depth.

While my work exists within the context of weddings and events, I approach each commission as an authored body of work—balancing portraiture with candid observation, and refinement with restraint. I am less interested in spectacle than in resonance. Photographs that carry a sense of place, time, and human presence long after the moment itself has moved on.

I photograph with the final form in mind. The book held in the hands. The print resting in a frame. The image living in a room rather than on a screen. Each photograph is made with an awareness of scale, material, and permanence—how it will be experienced physically, and how it will endure.

These photographs are meant to last. To be held, displayed, and returned to over time—as tangible reminders of a moment fully inhabited.