Hi, I’m Chelsea,
Your new favourite photographer
Hi, I’m Chelsea, a wedding, couples and family photographer based by the coast in Southsea, Hampshire.
I’ve been a photographer for fifteen years, which is long enough to have worn a dozen different versions of myself. I’ve experimented, evolved, chased trends, moved through phases and, somewhere along the way, occasionally lost myself in all the noise.
Evermore Stories is my return to the lakes of creativity; a soft unraveling back to the very first reason I fell in love with photography.
The raw emotion. The ache hidden inside a fleeting moment. The quiet meaning that lives beneath the surface.
I’ve always believed there’s something almost sacred about freezing time. Taking a tiny piece of a life and preserving it long enough for someone to return to it years later and remember not only how it looked, but exactly how it felt.
Because I never want to look back at a moment and think, damn, I should have captured that.
The Story Behind Evermore
Over the last few years, I’ve specialised in brand and product photography, working with people across all kinds of industries and helping them tell the stories behind what they create.
But the more stories I captured, the more I found myself being drawn back towards the most personal ones.
The hand held beneath the table. The look exchanged across a crowded room. The family that can’t quite stand still for a photograph because everyone is laughing too much. The nervous anticipation before a ceremony and the joyful chaos once the music starts.
It was time to follow that pull and return to the kind of photography that first made me pick up a camera: love, connection and the wonderfully imperfect moments that become part of a family’s history.
That’s where Evermore Stories began.
Photography
that feels like you
I’m not here to turn your story into somebody else’s Pinterest board.
I want your photographs to feel unmistakably like your life: romantic without feeling staged, beautiful without losing the truth, and full of the little details you might otherwise forget.
My approach is relaxed, documentary-led and gently guided. You’ll never be left wondering what to do, but you also won’t spend your whole day being pulled away from the people you invited to celebrate with you.
I’ll step in when you need direction, then disappear into the background when the moment needs room to breathe.
Because the photographs that matter most are often the ones you didn’t realise were being taken.
A Little More About Me
Long before the friendship bracelets and the wild theories (can’t fault them though, this is my official petition to replace the FBI with swifties), there was me in my bedroom performing White Horse into a hairbrush, with my mirror and stuffed animals serving as a devoted audience. Somewhere in the archives, there is also an incredibly embarrassing video of me recreating the Love Story music video. However, that footage will remain under very strict protection.
You may have noticed the not-so-subtle Swiftie references woven throughout my branding and website, but Taylor Swift has always been far more than just a singer to me. I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up alongside her music, because every album she released and every era she entered seemed to find me in one of my own. From Fearless through folklore, The Tortured Poets Department and even TLOAS, her songs have soundtracked so many versions of my life. More than that, her lyricism helped shape the way I think about storytelling.
I’ve always loved stories. I spent my childhood writing poems, disappearing into imaginary worlds and filling pages with characters and ideas. I even had one of my poems published a lifetime ago! But Taylor’s writing only deepened that love, showing me how a tiny detail, a single line or one fleeting moment can hold an entire story inside it.
When I tell people I’m a Swiftie, I’m often met with an, “Oh, like Shake It Off?” And admittedly, while I do love the glittery pop anthems too, it’s the devastating, poetic songs that have me in a permanent grip.
I could never choose one favourite, but in case you’re on the edge of my seat - my top five are:
the lakes
Bigger Than the Whole Sky
loml
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
All Too Well (Sad Girl Autumn Version, Recorded at Long Pond Studios, Ten Minute Version obviously)
(I promise I’m actually a very happy and jolly gal!) And should you be planning a Swiftie-themed wedding, please consider this my formal request to be invited with a camera.
Swiftie to my core
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Creatively Wired
I have AuDHD, and my hot take is that I really dislike it when people automatically call neurodivergence a superpower.
There are plenty of ways it makes everyday life harder for me, particularly in areas that neurotypical people may never have to think twice about. I don’t want to romanticise that. At the same time, I do believe my neurodivergence is tangled up with the way I create.
When I care about a story, I care intensely. I notice tiny details, fall headfirst into ideas and become completely absorbed in finding the best way to bring them to life. Whether I’m planning a themed mini session, building a concept or capturing the fleeting moments of a wedding day, I bring a level of creativity, curiosity and determination that feels unmistakably connected to the way my brain works.
It may not be a superpower, but it is part of me and it shapes the way I see the world through my camera.
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I love iced coffee. No, scrap that, I am obsessed with iced coffee.
At this point, I probably have more caffeine running through my veins than blood. I also love everything coffee-flavoured, except for actual hot coffee. The same applies to tomatoes. Tomato soup? Perfect. Tomato-flavoured crisps, particularly Heinz ones? Elite. An actual tomato? Absolutely not. Keep it away from me.
Let Me Capture Your Love Story,
For Ever More
Whatever era of life you find yourself in, it deserves to be remembered, not only as it looked, but as it felt.