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Funeral photography – BBC Breakfast TV
Posted on Friday 12th November 2010 by Louise Harris
Just arrived back home from BBC – wow getting up at 5am this morning was hard work… but worth it!!
The interview was mainly based around funeral photography, and I didn’t get a chance to even mention the idea of filming funerals or talk about any of the other amazing products and services we offer – looking back they introduced me as ‘Louise Harris Owner of Funeral photography firm’ which isn’texactly right but that was their spin on the story! However I really enjoyed talking about somthing I am passionate about – and thats giving people a choice when it comes to planning a funeral.
It was great to meet Annie Styles from Cruse Bereavement Care too and I have to admit… quite liked being on telly ;o)
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steve says:
Hi,
I watched with interest as I am a professional photographer who has photographed a number of funerals over the years, working for the Royal Air Force as a serviceman, then later as a cicil servant and now as a contractor.
When someone dies in service, the bereaved partner has a right to have the funeral photographed at public expense. Whilst most do not take this option, some do. I find the way you conduct yourself at such an event to be a matter of common sense with sensitive consideration and discretion being at the fore.
Unfortunately, at one funeral I knew the chief mourner and suddenly found myself emotionally involved. We both ended up at the graveside propping each other up and crying our eyes out. He told me he was so thankful it was me photographing his son’s funeral, and not someone he didn’t know…
On another funeral, I found myself at the wake and it suddenly became like photographing a wedding reception – I thought the group shots were never going to end – everybody seemed to want a slice of the action. Even so, I held back from asking people to smile…….
Kerry Brabazon says:
I watched the article on breakfast this morning and found the idea refreshing and believe that funerals are as much a celebration of a persons life as they are a lament to their passing. However, the concept of funeral photography is not one that I find new. In 1981 my 7 year old brother died and myself (then 10) and my five year old brother did not attend the funeral but my parents organised photography of the funeral flowers which she put into a remembrance book for me and my brother. She did the same in 1990 when my father passed. I now have children of my own and am glad that I have photo albums that show the WHOLE of my brother and my fathers lives so that my girls can comprehend the concept of death and are not just left hanging with the last photograph they had taken when they were alive as that being the end of them. To use an American phrase – the photos have given us ‘closure’. I hope that people will embrace these momentos of their loved ones lives and more people will choose funeral photography.