Sometimes, when I say I'm a wedding photographer, I get labeled. Labeled by people who haven't seen any of my photos yet, but in their mind's eye they can already see a couple hiding behind a column and fake doves glued in the background. For many years, I had this idea about wedding photographers, too, so I kind of understand it. We've all seen wedding photos in display cases that were a bit kitschy. Flowers in plastic vases, fake backgrounds, motionless, lifeless figures that seem to have been glued in. Flying bride and groom on carpets and other such wonders. However, wedding photography has evolved over the years, becoming another branch of artistic photography. It's full of emotions, beautiful scenery, incredible play of light, fairytale locations, portraits straight from Vogue and true-to-life reportage.
Few people know that before I started doing weddings, my photography career touched many other areas, such as fashion, artistic and conceptual photography. I used to delude myself that my photography career would be based on fashion sessions. However, I quickly realized that this is an extremely hermetic environment, and many people only want to use you for free for their commercial purposes. However, this does not change the fact that this field has stopped being interesting to me. The fact that my portfolio does not abound in such sessions does not mean that I do not have experience in them, or that I cannot do them.
I love photography, among other things, because it is so multidimensional. And although I know that there are self-proclaimed sages who claim that you can't be good at several things at the same level, I dare to disagree. Because I can photograph so many different things, situations, it's hard to get bored or burn out. This drives me and gives me the power to act.
My photography has always focused on women. I honed my skills on my friends and cousins. Everything has always revolved around women. And in fact, they are still the main characters in my photos. I dream of more female portrait sessions. I regret that so few people invest in photography. Especially when we live in a time of images surrounding us from all sides. I can't quite understand it.
With this rather long introduction, I invite you to watch the session with Paula Nagel. The session took place in a magical apartment in Warsaw, in Saska Kępa, full of monsters, mysterious objects and fairy-tale light, which surprised us for a short moment and added incredible magic to the frames.
MUA: Ania Wronka
Model: Paula Nagel
Styling: My own wardrobe combined with Paula's wardrobe ;)
