About Marina
Photography is a conscious choice
Fifteen years ago, I made the conscious decision to become a wedding photographer. Before that, I had trained as an economist and spent years working in corporate event planning and production. I wanted to make work with a meaning I could see, for people I could know.
I wanted to understand who would live with the result of my time and attention. A wedding gives me that connection. The photographs become part of someone’s home, someone’s history and, eventually, a family’s memory.
Almost every wedding I photograph brings people away from home
Guests cross countries, rearrange their lives and make a real effort to be in one place at one time. That changes the atmosphere of a celebration. It often gives families and friends more than a single day together. There is time to meet, to talk, to understand one another and to share the place the couple has chosen.
This is what I love about destination weddings. They bring different countries, cultures and traditions into the same story. Every celebration carries something of where the couple comes from, something of the people who have travelled with them, and something of the place in which everyone has gathered.
No two combinations are ever quite the same.
I take on a considered number of weddings each year, so I can remain closely involved from our first conversation to the final gallery.
Life by the Atlantic
Living by the ocean in Portugal was another conscious choice
The light here has an extraordinary softness and a creamy palette, from the first colour of morning to the sun setting into the Atlantic. The painted façades, the blue of the water and the saturated greens make everyday life here intensely visual.
Living here keeps me attentive to colour, atmosphere and the small changes in light that can transform the feeling of a place.
I am also the mother of a ten-year-old daughter, and watching her grow beside me is one of the greatest pleasures of my life.
Away from weddings, I play padel, sail whenever I can and head to the mountains to ski or snowboard. I also remain very serious about one future plan: a toy poodle.
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