PHILOSOPHY
CORE PRINCIPLES
Wedding photographs are meant for the future more than for the now; they are a pillar of a family’s legacy.
As decades will go by, your images will become more and more valuable to you as you will treasure them not only as elevated artifacts of your marriage, but also as historical documentation of your loved ones.
A wedding is not a photoshoot.
My couples favor candid/authentic imagery over posed, formulaic wedding photography.
They also prefer to be followed rather than to be led, in life in general, and by their photographer on their wedding day in particular. I am a quiet witness, not the director of your day. My gift is to be able to capture beauty in what is.
I am interested in making unique images that truly represent the essence of you and your unique wedding day, not in imposing to you a generic vision of what a wedding is supposed to look like according to other people’s wedding photographs. When I walk into your wedding, all the weddings I have seen before yours are forgotten. I see it as a basic form of respect.
Simplicity is the highest form of elegance.
I usually work on my own, and keep my equipment to a minimum. The reason I work this way is to gain access to real moments. People open up in front of my camera to give me real photographs (not fake/made up ones) only when they are able to trust and relax. It’s about acceptance, empathy and ultimately about trust, on both ends of the lens. My main focus in the opening stages of a wedding day is to behave in a way that makes everybody comfortable with the presence of my camera in order to ideally photograph from inside the party, not from the outside looking in.
Trust the moment.
The images you will treasure in 30 years won’t be the ones that ever lived on a shot list…the unexpected photographs are the ones that will steal your hearts.