ABOUT US: PHOTOGRAPHERS: ANDY ROGERS

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Robert Capa, a legendary photojournalist and founder of Magnum Photos, said, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." I knew this to be true long before I knew the name of Capa or even cared what photojournalism meant. In college, I began taking pictures of underground music shows in Washington, D.C. as a way to be more connected to the art and people that were important to me. There was only one way to do it: be right up front, in the crowd, on the stage and in the moment as the emotion of the musicians and crowd poured forth. I came to discover that the ability to be close without being disruptive was a skill that allowed me to creating artful, storytelling pictures as I moved forward in my career as a newspaper photographer. Now I'm using these same philosophies and skills to tell the story of your wedding day. As with the music I started with, I see the importance, beauty and emotion in this all-important event, and I look forward to sharing it with you.

Andy worked at seven newspapers over 13 years, joining the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 2004. His career has taken him from photographing gunfire on the streets of Fallujah while covering the current Iraq War, to witnessing the Seattle Mariners record-setting 116-win season. In 2008, he won the Associated Press's Reid Blackburn Memorial Award for the best feature photo in the region.

He says his greatest accomplishments are his two sons, 4-year-old Benjamin and 2-year-old Cameron. Andy's wife Allison is a senior writer at msnbc.com.