Tuesday night, photographer Denis Reggie spoke to the Asheville Pictage User Group at my studio. Denis is one of the most well known wedding photographers in the world. I have included his impressive bio below. The PUG meets each month on the 2nd Tuesday and we normally have 12 - 25 photographers that attend. I was beyond thrilled that 44 people showed up to see Denis! A huge thank you to everyone that attended, especially all of the new people that had never been to a PUG meeting, all the people that drove 2 - 3 hours and all the faithful regulars that are so supportive every month.
One of my favorite things about Pictage is that they are incredibly supportive to their photographers, locally and nationally. When the photographers that use them are doing well, it translates into the company doing well. I first heard Denis speak 3 years ago at a Pictage conference and attended his workshop the next month. My business and photography are where they are today in a huge part because of Denis. I got kind of choked up introducing him, since he has meant so much to me. I have been getting emails, phone calls and Facebook comments all day from photographers saying how grateful they are to Denis for coming to Asheville and how inspired they were from his presentation.
Please bookmark the Asheville PUG blog for information about the monthly meetings. If you want to be included on the Evite that I send out as a reminder each month, please email me regina@reginaholder.com.
I am excited to announce that LaCour will be speaking at the April 14 meeting on the topic Marketing in a Recession! Mark your calendars now and make sure you don’t schedule anything else!
Hailed by Town & Country as “the great wedding photographer of our day” and by Oprah Winfrey as “the best in the business,” Denis Reggie and his impact on wedding photography have become legend. Sensing the frustration of many brides with the posed look of traditional and pseudo-fashion wedding photography, he set out to refine and popularize the truly natural, editorial style he termed “wedding photojournalism.” The wedding photography industry has never been the same.
In the 2007 American PHOTO cover feature naming “The 10 Best Wedding Photographers in the World,” Denis Reggie was listed first. At the request of the Smithsonian Institute, several Reggie photographs will become part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of American History in Washington.
His images have been featured on the cover of LIFE, and named in “Photographs of the Year” by People, Life, Time and Newsweek among other publications. He has be interviewed at various times as a guest on NBC’s Today show as well as on Oprah! A Denis Reggie photograph of Oprah Winfrey and Jackie Onassis was featured on a broadcast highlighting “Oprah’s favorite things.
Denis Reggie’s celebrity client list reads like a Who’s Who among America’s elite and includes Vera Wang, John Kennedy, Jr., Susan Lucci, James Taylor, Mariah Carey, Rudy Giuliani, Peter Jennings, James Garner, television anchor Campbell Brown, Alan Greenspan, Ted Turner and Don Henley to name a few.
He has been featured on Entertainment Tonight, VH-1, E! Entertainment Television, CNN and Fox in national broadcasts. He has also been the subject of feature stories in each of the major wedding and photography magazines and in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications. His photographs are frequently used in books on weddings, etiquette and photography including titles by Vera Wang, Letitia Baldridge and Town & Country.
Denis Reggie was the first wedding photographer named Explorer of Light by Canon and was named by Microsoft as its first Icon of Imaging.
