Welcome to #obsessed. This is the second episode in a series of conversations with our Thrive Brighton 2026 speakers. Just honest, in-depth chats about the work, the thinking, and what drives some of the most interesting photographers working in weddings today.
Today is the turn of Alexandria French.
Alexandria French is a Yorkshire-based wedding photographer, artist and writer who has been shooting full time for seven years. She took an analogue photography diploma at nineteen, knew within two years that faces and human emotion were her thing, and has never deviated from that clarity since. Before photography, she was an English teacher, and that love of storytelling and expression runs through everything she creates.
She shoots documentary and editorial, draws on 90s Vogue, cult films and the Romantic movement of the 1800s, and works across digital, 35mm and 120 film. She has built one of the most distinctive creative identities in UK wedding photography - not by following the market, but by being completely, unapologetically herself.
Her Instagram is worth a look before you press play. At a time when social media has become relentlessly performative, Alexandria has found a way to show up that feels considered, client-focused and genuinely elegant. We talked about how she figured that out - and why it works.
Find Alexandria here:
Website: alexandriafrenchphotography.com
Instagram: @alexandriafrenchphotography
The Image Alexandria Wished She’d Taken
At the end of every #obsessed conversation, I ask the same question: what’s the image you wish you’d taken?
Alexandria chose this portrait of Oscar Wilde, taken by someone in Napoleon Sarony’s studio in 1882 - at the very height of Wilde’s celebrity, when society adored him. She finds it deeply emotional to look at knowing what came after. The imprisonment, the shame, the poverty, the exile. A man who was so completely himself, celebrated for it, and then destroyed for it. She also mentioned she has read The Picture of Dorian Gray at least a hundred times - which tells you everything about why this image hit her the way it did.
It is a portrait of someone at their most radiant, taken before the fall. And the thought of how different his life would be today - that got us both.
Join us at Thrive
Thrive is Photography Farm’s annual conference for wedding photographers, and this year we are in Brighton on the 20th and 21st of October 2026. Alexandria will be there in person - speaking and shooting alongside our full lineup.
Tickets are on sale now and the code OBSESSED10 gets you 10% off all tickets.
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