Born in Crowley, Louisiana in 1955, Denis was an athlete whose two sports-related injuries kept him out of the action. To stay with the team, he took up photography and built a thriving business. Reggie photographed “anything and everything” throughout his college years, proved to himself that he could make a living as a photographer, and went full-time in 1976. By chance, he attended the wedding of a former girlfriend and detested the predictable and annoying style in which it was photographed. He determined to apply to wedding photography the techniques of sports photography and photojournalism, observing and responding rather than demanding and controlling. The style he developed has become a touchstone of photographic excellence.
During his 25-year career, Reggie has almost single-handedly redefined wedding photography. He's shot hundreds of celebrity weddings, including the marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger to Maria Shriver and John Kennedy Jr. to Carolyn Bessette, at which he made one of the most famous wedding pictures of all time -- of the groom kissing the bride's hand as they step out of the one-room church where the ceremony was held.
Reggie earned his fame by practicing and advocating a new style of wedding photography that he called "wedding photojournalism." His approach broke from the usual stiff, posed pictures, "covering" the nuptials as a real-life event. "I am a quiet observer of the wedding," he says, "searching for moments that define the story of the day."
Denis is a leading innovator in business practices, as well as hardware and software development. His gentlemanly demeanor is admired as much by other photographers as it is by his clients, and his seminars are always packed with shooters eager to get a handle on the Reggie magic.
Denis Reggie is at the very top of the wedding photography profession. He was proclaimed "best in the business" by Oprah Winfrey, appeared on Today with Katie Couric and Al Roker, and has been featured on Entertainment Tonight, Leeza, VH-1, the Oxygen Network, E! Entertainment Television, the Lifetime Network, CNN, Fox & Friends, Today in New York, Morning in Los Angeles, and on the television special InStyle Celebrity Weddings. He was the subject of a television program in the award-winning PBS television series Louisiana Legends. Denis was among the original group of 55 Canon Explorers of Light, selected in 1994.
He has photographed 21 Kennedy family weddings (at the age of 25 for the first one), including those of Maria Shriver to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Caroline Kennedy to Edwin Schlossberg, and John Kennedy, Jr. to Carolyn Bessette, as well as the weddings of such well-known people as Mariah Carey, Alan Greenspan, Tom Clancy, Peter Jennings, and that of Maria Cuomo to Kenneth Cole. He has been the subject of feature stories in The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Examiner, New York Newsday, USA Today, The New York Times, and SKY -- the Delta in-flight magazine. His work has appeared on the cover of Life, and in Town and Country, Paris Match, W, The New York Times Magazine, InStyle, Vogue, Elle, Newsweek, and Harper's Bazaar.
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