Wedding Photographer Shoreditch — East London’s Arts Quarter, the Old Truman Brewery and Brick Lane
Shoreditch is London’s most concentrated creative district for contemporary wedding photography — a neighbourhood whose transformation from 1990s textile warehouses to the epicentre of British contemporary art, architecture, food and fashion has created an urban portrait landscape of extraordinary cultural concentration: the Old Truman Brewery’s Victorian industrial complex, the Brick Lane Great Mosque (formerly the Spitalfields Huguenot chapel of 1743), the Shoreditch High Street viaduct arches, the Boxpark shipping container market and the murals of Shoreditch Street Art Museum together provide an urban portrait vocabulary of creative industrial London at its highest density. For Shoreditch wedding photography, the neighbourhood’s combination of Victorian industrial architecture, street art, the Old Spitalfields Market and the City’s glass towers visible above the Victorian warehouses create a portrait environment of creative East London urgency.
Brick Lane, the Old Truman Brewery and the Street Art
Brick Lane — the historic East End street running south from Bethnal Green Road through the Bangladeshi restaurant quarter to Whitechapel, with the former Huguenot-Methodist-Jewish-Muslim chapel at the south end and the Sunday market at the north — provides a specific East London multicultural street portrait setting of extraordinary historical layering. The Old Truman Brewery complex — the converted Victorian brewery’s series of yard spaces, industrial buildings and the Boiler House and Vibe Bar — provides the primary Shoreditch industrial event venue portrait setting: the exposed brick, the oversized loading doors and the yard’s cobbles provide a portrait backdrop of Victorian industrial character re-appropriated by the creative industries. Shoreditch’s street art — the works by Banksy, Os Geméos, Pure Evil and the continually renewed murals on the Fashion Street and Redchurch Street walls — provides a rotating exterior portrait backdrop of contemporary urban art character.
Spitalfields Market, the City Fringe and Columbia Road
Old Spitalfields Market — the Victorian market hall of 1893, rebuilt in the 1990s and now a permanent food and artisan market with the Victorian ironwork roof structure retained above the current traders — provides an interior market portrait setting of East London Victorian commercial architecture. The City fringe immediately south of Shoreditch — where the Norman Foster Swiss Re tower (‘The Gherkin’) and the Leadenhall Market’s Victorian arcade are visible from Bishopsgate above the Shoreditch roofline — provides an urban skyline portrait context of City finance and East End creative tension. Columbia Road Flower Market — the Sunday flower market in the Victorian terraced street a quarter-mile north, where 50 florist stalls fill the street from 8am to 2pm every Sunday — provides a specific floral-street portrait setting of extraordinary colour density.