After 2000, wedding photography in and around İzmir

Apart from daily life since the day it was invented, photography has recorded the days accepted as important by the society and ensured the preservation of the image and has become an unchanging and important actor of the rituals. Photography freezes and records important moments of time, a brief moment that changes people's lives, and thus becomes a proof of a moment. As we approach the present day from the proclamation of the Republic, it is seen that there is an increase in the variety of rituals, the importance given to the visual part of marriage increases, and this situation is reflected in the photographs. It is seen that there has been a change in the wedding photographs from past to present with the influence of people, photographer and technological possibilities. It is now seen that there is a shift in the direction of the lens within the framework of certain rules, from the photographs in which the eyes are directed away, to the photos where the feelings of the family members are more reflected in the photograph. Especially with the development of technology, the presence of the photographer in photography has gone beyond just posing, the photographer has entered the image enough to completely change the photo with photo editing software. For the purpose of recording these changes, photography enabled the acceptance and dissemination of the change on the one hand, and on the other hand, the creation and preservation of the cultural memory with the recording made. These developments also affected the way the photograph was hidden and exhibited. Photos that could only be displayed in albums or frames in the past; nowadays it is recorded in mobile phones, electronic media or takes place on social networking sites.