Brett Florens

Internationally acclaimed South African photographer Brett Florens, launched his career in 1992 while fulfilling national service obligations in the Police riot unit. Fortuitously, a photographic unit was formed to document political changes, and Brett jumped at the chance to join it. With no photographic experience whatsoever, Brett had to learn how to photograph and document volatile situations. His unit evolved into a department dealing with politically motivated crimes and township violence, and photography was necessary to record this important slice of South Africa's history. Brett thrived on the opportunity and soon found himself in the thick of newsworthy events, creating images that found a ready market in newspapers and other media and having his work published around the globe. His passion for photography had begun.

Since then, Brett's devotion to photography has taken him from photojournalism to a highly successful wedding, commercial, and fashion photographer, with longstanding clients such as Wonderbra, Playtex, Quiksilver and Roxy Brett has achieved numerous accolades along the way, the most recent of which, was the prestigious distinction of being chosen as the representative Nikon Wedding Photographer worldwide: being amongst 12 other photographers who were chosen as the best in their particular field of photography at the Photokina Exhibition in Germany. Also recently, Brett had the distinction of working with some of South Africa's most famous personalities, including Bishop Desmond Tutu, FW de Klerk, Trevor Manuel, and Lance Klusener when he photographed them for a coffee table book "Perfect Weekend". The next project to be published, and this time internationally with Amherst Media USA, is Brett's very own wedding manual, "The Brett Florens Guide to Photographing Weddings" - a highly informative book, where he shares all his top photographic tips complete with hundreds of his exceptional wedding images.