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

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

There is no city in the world quite like Paris at dawn. Before the cafes open, before the tourists arrive, before the noise of the day fills the streets — Paris holds still. The light settles differently on stone that has stood for centuries. The architecture does something to the air that I cannot fully […]

Eloping in Paris: A Guide to the Most Beautiful Morning of Your Life

Intimate elopement photography in Paris by Guillaume Gimenez