A street photographer I've inadvertently become a dating website photographer. London is full of singles and I’ve a history with dating people I met online. I've also many surprising stories and anecdotes I won’t share for now, although they did make for an excellent best man speech at our wedding.

Initially I was on there to find someone and tried and tested a few (of these sites). I eventually met my beautiful wife but surprisingly the good old way, face to face, in “real” life.

That isn’t to say dating websites don’t work, just not required this particular time.

Then in 2015 and 2016 I was commissioned by Match.com to shoot their #loveyourimperfections campaign for social media. Match asked me to photograph total strangers in the streets of London (with their permission) and ask them to share their imperfection in order to tell a little story to suit their campaign.

I enjoyed asking people to photograph their portrait and interacting, all of us are beautiful in our very own way.

And then in 2017 I was contacted by a client who wanted high quality photos for their dating website profile. Then another, and another etc…

Unexpected but quite a reasonable little niche.

If I was single looking for a partner on dating websites, instead of trawling through thousands of outdated photos I’d be very tempted instead to hire a professional to capture the best of me, an established street photographer wouldn’t be such a bad idea after all.

Street photographers can make a stranger look good, or at least their very best in a natural environment.

So if you too are looking to meet your soulmate… contact me, I can help through my professional photography.

Nico