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“All I ask is that you trust me.” Sounds simple enough at face value, I suppose. But when you consider the fact that I am a complete stranger who you’re inviting into your home to sit cross-legged on your floor to play with your kids, or into your bridal suite to bustle your dress because […]
There is not a single person on planet Earth who says the most important ‘yes’ of their life to a very special someone down on one knee and immediately starts thinking about champagne towers or sparkler exits or whether or not having a first look “ruins the magic.” I’m sorry, but people as gloriously human […]
(Iconic wedding venues in two different states, because apparently I contain multitudes or whatever.) You know those wedding venues that you step inside and immediately think, “Oh, okay. So this is going to ruin me in the best way then… got it.” You walk in and can already see it— the way the light is […]
An Illustrative Essay on Observation, Restraint, and the Misunderstanding of Documentary Wedding Photography Instagram called. It wants its buzzword back. “Documentary-style wedding photography” has become one of the most frequently used—and easily least examined—phrases in the industry. Somehow, somewhere, the Internet happened, diluting the phrase down to aesthetic shorthand for “unposed.” Like pointing a camera […]
You know those moments that make you sit back and think, “Oh my god… love IS real. And maybe humanity ISN’T completely doomed”? The same kind of moment where every detail feels like destiny— as if the universe itself signed off on it?
Campbell and Claudia could teach a masterclass in making those moments, with a side course on making strangers on the internet ugly-cry.
Posing people is easy. But I don’t want easy. I want real. Raw. The kind of the raw that just so happens to photograph very f*cking well.
