I wrote down a list with personal goals for this year. Shooting in Paris was one of them. Making it happen was a total dream come true. Photographing for four days with fabulous clients and doing a styled shoot with fantastic vendors was something I never dared to imagine. Here is part one of the Paris series. ...
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Muttertag
I am a story teller and I do not only tell my own story but above all I tell love stories with my camera. I short while ago I had the pleasure to photograph Mareike, Kristina and her mother Hedwig in my little studio. It was a glamorous and fun day and I loved the interaction and love that happend between the three women. As the love between mother and daughter is always something special I want to share with you a letter from Mareike and Kristina about their mother. "Like for almost all children our mum is the best mum in the whole world. But what does make our mum so special and irreplaceable ? I already have 1000 things and characteristics in my mind that would describe her and why she is so special. ...
Something new….
A while back we decided we want to do more with the little studio. I was using my little space mainly for meetings with wedding clients but the rest of the day the space was empty and the beautiful light in there was just fading away when the sun set. What a waste of light I thought. So we started building backdrops and rearranged the little studio so I was able to use it for photography too. Until now I was used to photograph outside so this was a complete new challenge for me to direct light in a room. I contacted different women to photograph them in here. The morning when Natali came in to be photographed the rain poured down and I just said to Conrad "Look that is what I love about my little space and this new direction, the weather is not an issue anymore." ...