Hi, I’m Mat

Where to start… I’m originally from Chesterfield but craved some Monaco style glitz and glamour so I moved my family 8 miles up the road to Mansfield near Nottingham. Not much has changed apart from the postman now calls me ‘‘cocker’’ instead of ‘‘duck’’ and ‘‘cobs’’ are now ‘‘baps’’ (I know right, I mean what the!?!)

I live with my amazing wife Sam, our three lovely kids, Amelie 10, Arthur11 and Nellie-Jo 17 who are my absolute world, ohhh and our daft dog Nigel 6 who I’m not actually that keen on to be honest!

I’ve recently (reluctantly) crept into my mid 40’s and having been a photographer for 29 of those years I have a wealth of technical and practical experience to call on when it comes to capturing your perfect day, I mean seriously, come storms, lightening, snow or heatwave you are going to get amazing photographs!

In my spare time I’m a massive 1980’s/90’s German classic car nerd and enjoy nothing more than listening to a good audio book whilst pulling engines apart. My pride and joys are my 35 year old BMW E30 325i coupe and Mercedes 190e 3.2ltr straight six both of which I’ve done a nut and bolt restoration on and will be with me until the kids stick me in an old folks home!

Weddings are where my hearts at though, there’s nothing else that comes close to the excitement of documenting such a special and amazing emotion charged day.  I love being in the middle of everything, listening out for moments kicking off and getting them creatively and unobtrusively captured forever. I love the mixture of photography I get to deliver throughout the wedding day and always challenging myself to create something completely unique for my couples.

I have a really strong work ethic, a very easy-going nature and love to laugh so my sense of humour makes for a genuinely relaxed and fun experience. I think that’s really important. I’m going to be with you the whole day, more than any of your other wedding suppliers and the last thing you want is a wedding photographer you can’t totally relax around, laugh and have a lot of fun with.

Ohhh, and its absolutely ridiculous that I would even have to mention this but I’m all about ‘‘love is love’’ and all the combinations of people that make up my amazing couples, my eldest daughter is the LGBTQ ambassador at her secondary school, she’s a little legend and I couldn’t possibly be any more proud.

I have won numerous awards from ‘‘The Guilds of Wedding Photographers’’ prestigious international image of the month competition in the wedding category.

Just one final thing before I sign off, every single photograph in my wedding gallery is taken by me at a real wedding, there are no workshop images, fake styled wedding shoots or models, you might not realise this is a thing but what you see in my gallery is ‘‘100% Dickenson’s Real Deal’’ and representative of the creative and high standard you can expect to receive on your wedding day.

Thanks for making it to the end, if you think I may be the photographer you’re looking for I would absolutely love to hear all about your plans so get in touch!