The French Riviera operates at a register that is unlike anywhere else in France. It is not just the light, though the light here is exceptional. It is the combination of sea, stone, pine. A certain quality of wealth that has been accumulating since the Belle Époque. For wedding photography, the Côte d’Azur offers conditions […]

Provence on film is a different argument entirely. The grain that sits in the shadows of a stone wall. The way Kodak Portra handles the ochre and terracotta without pushing them into artificial saturation. The latitude that keeps detail in both the white dress and the shadow of the cypress tree behind it. There is […]

Autumn in Provence is the season that most photographers keep to themselves. The crowds of August are gone. The light changes completely — lower, warmer, arriving at a longer angle from September through November. The vineyards turn amber and red. The garrigue releases its oils into the cooling air. For a wedding, it is the […]