portrait fun in East Sacramento

This is how it worked: I set up a studio at the living room of a client's beautiful home in East Sac. Then her coworkers came and altogether we enjoyed a few hours of fun with portraiture. Corporate and family portraits done at one sitting, in the comfort of home. This is my new concept of the studio. 

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Claudie and the two beasts

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portrait weekend 1.0 • SUN

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portrait weekend 1.0 • SAT

Before heading back to Europe this summer I thought it would be a good idea to take advantage of the lovely Californian weather. What better thing to do than host a portrait weekend? The result is an array of portraits of fantastic people, from all ages and sizes. 

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Nicole & Matt plus two

A lovely summertime portrait session in Land Park, Sacramento.

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more moments from Mandi's & Steve's intimate wedding

Me, a bridesmaid?

Mandi & Steve

I was a guest at a friend's wedding this weekend! How lovely! It was an intimate backyard event with their closest friends and relatives in Sacramento. Congratulations Mandi & Steve! 

The Farmer Series

Mulvaney's B & L commissed me to produce this photo essay about local food producers in the Sacramento region. For six months, I met with the people who provide this lovely farm-to-table restaurant with their ingredients, grown right in the Sacramento Valley. This was for me a marvelous undertaking. Being deeply concerned about the present state of our food culture, I was delighted to meet the people who have chosen the difficult task of producing food in their own terms in a time when cheap (and, consequently, low quality) is king.

The result are ten images, created on black and white film, then developed by hand, and finally printed on archival watercolor paper. They are on permanent display at Next Door - the area of the restaurant designated for private events.


The photo essay can be seen here.
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transgressive theology...

John Mabry is the name of the pastor who married Kiera and Bradford. He was funny. I heard belly laughs loud and clear during the ceremony. I laughed myself even!

I liked John's ceremony, his sense of humor, and his energy. And, besides, he stepped outside the church box (if I may call it that), by choosing to follow a more alternative interpretation of the bible and the teachings of Jesus.

Well, check it out for yourself. Here is his blog: http://johnrmabry.wordpress.com/
And here is the link to his church: www.gracenorthchurch.org

He is based out of the Bay Area and happy to travel, as he did for Kiera and Bradford's wedding two days ago.

behind the scenes at Kiera Mickiewicz's and Bradford Anderson's wedding

behind the scenes with the Mickiewicz family

My assistant snapped some behind-the-scenes shots during the wedding day of Kiera and Bradford on April 10th in Northern California. Here were are the Mickiewicz's family home before heading over to the wedding location in Clarksburg.

more of Kiera's & Bradford's wedding

Kiera Mickiewicz' & Bradford Anderson's wedding

What brought me across the Atlantic from Barcelona to Sacramento this spring was the wedding of Kiera and Bradford.

Kiera, a Sacramento native, met Bradford while studying theater at New York University. They now reside in Los Angeles, where Bradford stars in the daytime television show General Hospital. They chose to marry in Northern California, where Kiera's large Irish and Polish family were represented in full force.

This wedding was filled with lovely and very siginificant details. Kiera's dress had been worn by both her granmother and her mother on their respective wedding days. Her bouquet was adorned with tiny photographs of loved ones who had passed. The arch under which they said their vows was built by a family friend out of hundred-year-old wood.

The chosen location for the festivities was the Old Sugar Mill, a quaint and incredibly photogenic venue in Clarksburg.

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