Bruce approaches photography as an individual, always. A graduate of Ohio State University, with a bachelors degree in business sciences, Bruce took several classes in commercial photography but says most of his knowledge came from mentors and on the job training. Everything this photographer does is quality oriented. Customer satisfaction is his top priority. "The important thing is the smiles on my customers’ faces," he says.
To say that, as a photographer, Bruce Schockett is extremely experienced in his craft, is an understatement. He began a photography career at age 19 as a photographer’s assistant, working for studios in New York City and on Long Island. Once he started shooting weddings, he worked non-stop for three large studios on Long Island, shooting as many as four weddings a weekend. One studio he worked for photographed 2,300 weddings in one year.
He relocated to Arizona in 1973, where he has continuously operated a studio in Tucson. His work is recommended by several resorts and hotels in Tucson, as well as Rocky Point, Mexico. He has photographed weddings in Rocky Point, San Diego, Maine, New Jersey, Florida, Wyoming and Ohio, as well as in Arizona and New York.
About weddings, Bruce comments, "Hopefully, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event, comprised of love and happiness. My job is to capture that moment and do it so well that years from now the couple will open their wedding book and feel the same warmth they did when the photographs were taken."

Taking meticulous care with each photograph, he takes each shot keeping in mind what the bride and groom are looking for in having their own special moment preserved.

Realizing any successful photographer must change with the times, Bruce has moved into digital photography, but for the purest at heart, those that prefer film photography, he still shoots film, in color, and in black and white, hand-developing and printing black and white images in a darkroom.
"Black and white is the most expressive form of visual media," he comments. "For impact and timelessness, nothing can compare. Ansel Adams’ brilliant portrayals of black and white images are still stunning, and still in demand today."
Each project is approached individually. "I don’t have one method of shooting anything, not weddings, or models, or any work at all," Bruce says. "We sit down, discuss what they want and approach it together."