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Notes on light, places, and the art of seeing. In French and English.

Photographers don’t talk enough about light as a reason to choose a place. They talk about venues. Châteaux, lavender fields, dry stone walls. All of it is real, and none of it is the point. The point is what happens to that stone when the sun comes down at a certain angle, in a certain […]

Provence Light: Why the South of France Creates Unforgettable Wedding Images

Wedding photography among lavender fields in Provence

Fashion-inspired wedding photography in Paris is not about making a wedding look like a runway show. It is about applying a fashion photographer’s way of seeing to a wedding day. The attention to cut, to fabric in motion, to the relationship between a body and the space it moves through. Paris is where this becomes […]

Fashion-Inspired Wedding Photography: Haute Couture in Paris

The Opéra Garnier is, without question, one of the most visually overwhelming spaces in Paris. The gilded ceilings, the red velvet, the Chagall ceiling in the auditorium, the grand staircase. Has defined a certain idea of Parisian grandeur for over a century. For a wedding photographer, it is simultaneously a gift and a challenge. And […]

Getting Married at the Opéra Garnier: A Wedding Photographer’s Perspective

Wedding photography at the Opéra Garnier Paris by Guillaume Gimenez