Angela is beautiful in person and beautiful in colour photos, but in black and white photos she is even more beautiful. There is a magical and “eternal” touch in her black and white portraits. She is beautiful and very strong, she is involved in many projects. Positive and proactive, she comes with a great smile and the sacred “fire of art” is part of her personality! Enjoy these great shots dated June 2023!
My goodness, she’s beautiful and so full of life! Floriane is a mix of optimism and initiative, she’s a real force of nature! We met in 2006 in the library of Rabelais University in Tours during my Erasmus year and became friends! Since then, although we have lived in different countries, we have always stayed in touch. Since 2011, the last time we saw each other in France, we met again in 2021 in Scotland (she came to visit me) and now in 2023, in Paris, where I treated myself with a trip-in-advance of my 40th birthday. Taking portraits of Flo is easy, partly because she has a delicate, spontaneous and lively femininity, and partly because it was like a game! Enjoy these lovely images!
I consider this my first international wedding even though, technically speaking, it is my second! In 2014 I lived in England and Delphine and Mathieu reached me because of Parisian mutual friends who had recommended me!! After browsing my portfolio they contacted me. I remember that Skype call, months before the wedding, when they informed me that they expected a spontaneous, documentary approach from their photographer and that they really didn’t want posed portraits. I also recall a certain amount of pre-shooting anxiety on the train on my way to Paris😚 Guess what?! Everything went well: Delphine and Mathieu were warm, welcoming, uncomplicated and so in love! The weather turned out to be decent, the details and the decos were enchanting, their family (with the couple’s son, gorgeous baby Adam!) and friends were the soul of the party and their wedding venue was this magnificent “guinguette” where we enjoyed, till late, such a good music (this being one of Mathieu’s passions). Also, their wedding photo booth was a win! It was an honour for me to be part of their big day, and I mean it. Enjoy these memories!
In July summer 2014 I took the Eurotunnel, crossed the Channel and found myself off for a couple of days in Paris as I was hired for a wedding there!! This was also the occasion to catch up with friends who lived in La Capitale and I had the honor to take some portraits of dancer Mikaël. Taking photographs of dancers is easier on one hand, in the sense that there is no ‘direct’ interaction during the photo session. As a photographer, you stay silent, observing them and capturing their poses in pictures, even though your physical involvement is perhaps stronger, than in other types of photo shoots, as well as your inner focus (your concentration is extremely high). It is pleasing to observe Mikaël’s motivation, his passion towards this discipline and it is remarkable that he has managed to make his passion his work. Enjoy these memories!
Blogging these old shots (dated March 2013) lets me remember that I have been in Paris quite a few times over the years. I deeply love this city but I would’t like to live there, it seems to be a dysfunctional relationship 🙂 There is a charm and a vibrancy that catches you so that you know you will always return!
I met Sandra via a mutual friend and I had the pleasure to take some portraits of her, in September 2012, in Jardin du Luxembourg. What impressed me most were her inner driven energy and her pride: she was fearless. I was interested to discover that she she is now a full time dancer. Unusually enough, the light that morning was harsh, with lots of contrast but that did not prevent us from taking some remarkable shots!
Madly in love with these two portraits:
My favorite is below
I love this one 🙂
and to finish, just a smile!
Séance photos avec le danseur Mikaël Cerop Ohannessian, Paris, Septembre 2012.
I had the pleasure to meet Mikaël as he was the husband of my friend Angela. Back in 2012, he was deeply into dance and he managed, a few years later, to make his own living with this passion. I have always loved dance (ballet too), even though I cannot really dance 🙂 The movements, the rhythm, the ownership of the space that a dancer has, are fascinating to me. As Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche wrote: “We should consider every day lost, when we have not danced at least once”. Enjoy this photo memory!
I don’t really have a lot to say about this shoot, as I can sum it up in one sentence: I loved EVERY SINGLE THING OF IT! I loved them, their love, their passion for life, artistic side, the details at their flat, I loved Paris, the weather of that day, that summer season…There’s just one question I don’t have an answer to, when I look at their shots, will I also experience such passion? Enjoy this loving and lovely memory!
Angela, Angela, what can I say about her…Photographs tell more than words! Angela is from Naples but has lived in Paris for two decades now. I met her through mutual friends while I was having an internship there and we did a couple of shoots over the years. These are the very first photos I took of her, dated early July 2012. Angela is beautiful, her sparkling soul is all in her eyes! She is alive, she is always on the go and is surrounded by a genuine enthusiasm that involves other people. The theme of the shoot was “Charleston dancer” of the Roaring Twenties.
We were hosted by a friend (Thanks, Francesca!) who lived in an evocative, very Parisian flat in Montmartre. There were also Francesca’s lovely cats roaming around (who got extra cuddles)! Back then, I realised how vital can be the pictures of the details, taken during the preparation phase. Enjoy this visual memory!
The cats in the bathroom ♡
WOW, charmers!
Angela’s joie de vivre!
You, beauty!!
My favorite below
Impossible NOT to finish this serie if not with this one…
I met Katell in 2010, whilst doing an internship in Paris. We kept in touch since then, even although we haven’t met for several years now. I took these portraits of her in the spring of 2012. We were in a park in Paris (but I don’t remember which one!). Katell is a warm and welcoming person, open to others, with a hint of shyness so I really appreciated her willingness to pose for me as a model and a muse! What did these images reveal? Herself! : her unveiled spontaneity, her sweetness, a radiant, artistic side of her personality and… also a sensual one!
And now folks, the crazy part of the shoot…the lake with the swim fins!! She didn’t dive into it, though.
I love this one!
I had an internship in Paris in 2010 and I had the chance to travel back in 2011 for a catch-up session with friends. This was a good time of my life and I am a bit nostalgic of “la Capitale”, even though a thing that I don’t really miss is that life there was frantic and tiring: more than once I got the feeling that time never stops in Paris!
And to finish, a beautiful memory of the “Maurini”, the 2 cats owned by my friend Francesca who, at that time, was living in Montmartre!
Angela is from Naples but has lived in Paris for many, many years! She IS a beautiful woman: her features, her coloring, her physique but also her personality would strike anyone! She is positive, lively, curious, sociable, artist (she is involved in theatre) and she is always on the go!
She asked me to take some artsy shots of her at Montmartre cemetery, while she was dressed as an angel. Back in those days (it was September 2011), I too was living in Paris and we were introduced through a common friend, so we met up one afternoon and just let loose! Although it was the first time that we had met, I am delighted with the results, I believe that her beauty, the location and her expressive natures shone through!
My favorite below!
Elena Arvasi Portrait Photographer 