GINGER VEIL

Zara

Ginger Veil is a small independent, Wedding Photography service by Zara, a British freelance photographer based in London and Toulouse, specialising in Reportage and Fine Art Photographs. 

Personal instagram account @holly.malone

Established in 2009, Zara has since shot over 150 Wedding celebrations. Ranging from Barbados to Provence, adapting for such cultures and traditions as East African Somali or the British Royal Family.

During this time she has found herself placing emphasis on the pure honesty of a Wedding day experience. By feeling what unfolds around her and responding skilfully with a sensitive eye, her photographs beautifully represent your personal Wedding day story in all it's being. She lives it. Her manner is gentle, focussed and smiley. The name itself Ginger Veil tries to play on her working style, her shooting presence being slightly hidden and her work having a little quirky edge.

For most of her twenties, Zara freelanced as a Digital Operator in London studios for Advertising, Advertorial, Point of Sale, Catalogue and Editorial shoots. These included Fashion, Celebrity Portraits, Interiors and Still Life work. Sample clients included Asda, Boden, Conde Nast, Clarks, Cotton Traders, Ellesse, Esquire, Fortnum&Mason, GHD, Good Housekeeping, Google, GQ, John Lewis, Jo Loves, Laura Ashley, M&S, Next, Notonthehighstreet, Specsavers, Ossie Clark, Primark, Russian Tatler, Tatler UK, Toast, Umbro, Vanity Fair UK, Vogue UK and Woman&Home.

Through this area of her work, she was fortunate enough to directly observe and learn first-hand from renowned Photographers of our time such as David BAILEY, Nadav KANDER, Annie LEIBOVITZ and Mario TESTINO... On separate occasions, working professionally around celebrity figures such as Victoria BECKHAM, Colin FIRTH, Wayne ROONEY and Vivienne WESTWOOD… These jobs also threw a lot of travel into the mix, with regular location shoots over in Majorca, Menorca, Miami, South Africa and Sweden. 

Nowadays, when not working with photography, you’ll mainly find her by the water in her motorhome, creative writing or life drawing. For the foreseeable future, Zara hopes to focus her life more simply, her photography work on love and personal projects. Wedding love has become a grateful career, a working day with positive energy all around. Plus the work produced for wedding clients is so genuinely appreciated and lives such a long life span that it is the most rewarding.