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Location - Westgate Kent England
Business Name - IMMI Images
Years in Business - Since 2004
Number of Posts - 349
Website - www.immimages.com
Blog - www.immimages.com/blog
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DWF - Let's start off with a little bio, tell us a little bit about yourself.

Ted - Ted Cunningham — born Margate, England 1972
Expelled by the local photography college at the age of 17, for lack of attendance in graphic design & textiles. Then traveled the world for six years by working on the cruise ships as a croupier, and enough cash in my pocket purchased the start of my fetish for Nikons and bought a Nikon N90s and got back into photography full swing with travel and nature photography. On the ships I met my wife Kim, who is also my business partner. Kim was a photographer on the ships and through her I met Ells our technical genius.

DWF - How did you become a wedding photographer?

TED - So we left the ships to get married in Bali and had the wild idea to spend the rest of our days as travel photographers. About 3 months into our first trip in SE Asia we decided we just had, had enough of living out of a backpack and wanted some more home comforts.

So we came home to Kent, but to no jobs and no where to live. We house-sat for a summer for a friend of ours who was living overseas. We had so much photography equipment so many ideas, but no photography jobs. If we still wanted to be involved with photography we were going to have to do it for ourselves. It was at this time Kim suggested wedding photography. I was horrified, I believe I said what a talentless bunch of t*@ts they were. Then she showed me Yervant’s work and I was amazed. It was about then I thought it wouldn’t be such a bad job.

So alas immi began in the summer of 2004.

As we got known for our style wedding photography, we decided to offer portrait photography. Why just have Bride and Grooms experiencing our style of photography when we could let everyone enjoy it? So immi-portraits came about and now anyone can have the immi experience.

DWF- Who or what inspires you as an artist?

TED - IMMI loves fashion, we love colour, we love using the environment to enhance our photography, whether it’s down a country lane or a busy chaotic street.

Our influences come from other photographers such as Mario Testino, Nick Knight & Joey L, by artists such as Jack Vettriano & Caravaggio, and fellow DWF’ers and by magazines such as Vogue, Tatler, Vanity Fair, by movies such as Amelie, MTV’s Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge, The Fifth Element, The Godfather, TV series like CSI. Oh and grafitti I just love grafitti.You can find inspiration in so many places - you just have to open your eyes and look!

DWF- If we needed a photographer today why would we book you? What makes you unique?

TED - IMMI want wedding photography to be exciting, passionate After all we don’t just capture your wedding we encapsulate your relationship, your love, your laughter, your life. The fairytale.

We want to enhance every moment of a wedding day, the beauty, the dress, the details. We know a girl is never going try to look better or more beautiful than on her wedding day or a groom looking so damn cool.

Some little girls dream of a fantasy wedding, they have planned their wedding in their minds for years, they want to look like super models and why not.

DWF- If you had to pick a favorite "Tool of the Trade" what would it be? and why?

TED - Nikon 70-200 VR just a great piece of glass and when uncle bob is trying to stand behind you snapping away your can rest assured it won’t look like mine. Well hopefully!

DWF - Care to share your favorite photograph? and tell us a bit about it?

TED -

Pics of the 2 skinheads. I approached, nervously the guy at a local shopping centre and asked to take his picture. He agreed and a few days later we all went out. After an hour i was chatting to him and asking if he had ever been photographed before as he seemed to be very natural in front of the camera. To which he replied the last fella to photograph me was a bloke called Rankin ever heard of him. Now that adds some pressure.



The wedding shot was taken in a freezing venue in February. It took me ages to persuade her to put the mini skirt part on that she had worn in the ceremony in Barbados but i did after plying her with G&T's. The power of alcohol.

DWF - How about some final words to live by?

TED - If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Abraham Sutzkever

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

And Kim’s personal fav……..Love, life and laughter today and always……..