Josie Macbeth is a Florida based film photographer, specializing in weddings & portraiture worldwide.
Love for people and earth has always informed how I behave & what I notice, whether I have a camera in my hand or not.
I began photographing weddings in 2015 and have been enthralled since. There is so much to discern by way of a camera — peace, chaos, celebration, grief, relatives that have known you since birth & chosen family. All of it intertwines under one roof for one ephemeral evening, and somehow I’ve found this remarkable way of being privy to it.
It is not just an honor for me to find my part in this experience, it is my absolute joy.
“Looking at her work I see distilled joy: laughs, hugs, kids, dancing...all the little happy details that you just want to cherish forever. When I’m an old lady, I’m gonna look at these photos and laugh and cry and relive that day all over again.”
— C.E.
Honoring
the intangible.
I work with analog film & digital cameras – instruments that lived a full life long before me.
These tools work in harmony with how I connect with people: emotionally present, anticipating the laughter, staying perceptive of body language, and balancing empathy with courage to know when a photograph needs to be made.
Film photography bridges the past to the present. The outcome is a body of work that feels grounded yet dreamlike, intentionally lingering in the periphery of realism.
