Hello! I’m Jessica Clark.
I am SO glad your wedding photographer search has brought you HERE to ME. This fact is something I’ll never not be chuffed about.
I’ve been shooting weddings since 2011 and absolutely LOVE what I do. (You can’t half tell, can you?)
your ultimate hype girl
What am I like to work with?
I’m really good at making people feel comfortable in front of the camera. It’s imperative to my unique style of photography. I am a confident and deeply empathetic person - so I know when to take charge, when to let things play out, and how to read a room.
- We’ll have fun together
- I hold space for you: your personality and emotions (so you can truly experience your day)
- I will help your day run smoothly so you aren’t stressed
- I will provide expert camera direction
Yes we want the photos to be spontaneous, but you also need to know how to stand and where tf to put your hands. That’s why I’ll never call my style ‘candid’, ‘unposed’, or ‘documentary’. The confidence you see in my photographs is borne from a joyful individuality - I help you relax in front of the camera so you can be yourself.
That’s what makes my images as diverse as the people you see featured in them.
My style?
🙅♀️ NOPE to faded over-processing
🙅♀️ NOPE to spending hours-on-end away from your guests for the sake of photos
🙅♀️ NOPE to faux romance and awkward posing
💁♀️ YEAH to photos that represent life in true and vivid full colour
💁♀️ YEAH to enjoying the heck outta the big party you’ve spent months/years planning
💁♀️ YEAH to capturing your beautiful smiling face while we have a bloody good time together
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Born in Adelaide, South Australia in the late 1980s. I was into dancing and singing and drama as a kid (no shit right?). My parents moved around a lot so I got really good at making friends quickly and adapting to new and unfamiliar situations.
A true Leo - my hair is my best feature. I originally got into star signs because I enjoyed how much it annoyed my husband. We’ve been married 15 years now and I still think he’s pretty cute. He’s my bff. Together we share a toddler, soon a newborn (sitch incoming mid 2024), a dog, a cat, lots of inside jokes, and a lot of debt. I couldn’t imagine doing life with anyone else.
I like art + design, very expensive things, very trashy television, and I never meant to become a photographer.
I wanted to be a famous actress or an english teacher or a popstar. I went to teacher’s college and art school. I loved taking photos for fun: documenting my friends and travels around the world.
I had a blog in the early naughties - which will absolutely never see the light of day lest I cringe myself to death. In 2011 Instagram featured me as a suggested user. All of a sudden lots of people wanted me to take pictures for them too. Absolutely against the idea at first, eventually, I acquiesced. I am so glad I did!
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2015 - won the SALA Young Artist of the Year Award
2015 - Commbank sent me all over the great state of SA to shoot the month-long Australian of the Day campaign leading to Paolo Sebastian’s 2016 Young Australian of the Year award
2017 - Photographed a piece for SBS that took out The Migration Council of Australia’s award for Excellence in Journalism (and got to attend a very fancy ceremony at Parliament House)
2018 - Photographed the major campaign for the Adelaide Film Festival
2019 - Comissioned to photograph the South Australian Firefighters’ Calendar
2019 and 2023 - Photographed the Adelaide Central Market’s ‘Our Market’ campaign
I’ve had some fun clients like Optus, SA Department for Education, SA Health, SA Dental, Adelaide City Council, Renewal SA, Shaw + Smith, been published in SA's CityMag and the Adelaide Review (rip), The UK's Financial Times, SBS, Australian Women's Weekly, and have photographed hundreds of gorgeous weddings and beautiful families.
My photos have been featured in magazines all over the world; on giant billboards, tram wraps, bus stops, hoarding around residential developments, government websites, stakeholder reports, websites AND (for what I’m most proud) framed on the mantlepieces and stuck on the refrigerators of hundreds of proud parents and grandparents all over Australia.
Just quietly, I feel I might be inching closer to surpassing my existing life highlight – that time I won an enormous cardboard cut-out of Big Bird in a colouring-in competition when I was eight.
I would love to work with you.
I would love to work with you.