Our Chief Executive Colin Buck FMPA (HON) of The Master Photographers Association
has posted a very valid and worthy article on the MPA website
please find a copy of it enclosed here on our blog
Comment from the Chief Executive of the Master Photographers Association:
I was appalled to read about the West Yorkshire newlyweds, Marc and Sylvia Day, who had to sue their wedding photographer for producing shoddy wedding photographs and video.
The photographer in question was not charging cheap prices either, so how can couples be assured that the photographer they choose is not going to make a mess of things?
The answer is simply to entrust this most important event to a Master Photographer. The Master Photographers Association is the only trade body in the UK to insist its members are full-time professionals and are qualified to a high minimum standard. They also follow a strict code of conduct and carry the appropriate insurance.
The bungling photographer, Gareth Bowers, was not an MPA member, but appears to have been a former member of the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers – a privately run society which does not enforce the strict entry criteria of the Master Photographers Association.
I’ll be discussing the benefits of using a Master Photographer in a radio interview booked for next week.
Colin Buck
Chief Executive, MPA
Ends:-
Why run the risk of searching Google and taking “pot Luck”
search the MPA site instead for photographers .
only then will clients and customers get the assurance the need .
To quote Ray Lowe FMPA
” You would not go to an unqualified Doctor for an examination, so why book an unqualified photographer for one of the most important days of your life ?”