Rodrigo & Filipa - The Framers
What are the key elements of your work / style / signature? And why??
When shooting weddings we focus on the small moments - we focus on things that could happen on an ordinary day but are interesting, funny, memorable or emotional enough to be captured. We believe that this approach really helps us creating unique images for each wedding, because these types of small moments are truly unique to a specific wedding, instead of, for example, the exchange of rings which happens on (almost) every wedding.
To make it even more clear we can give examples:
The mother of the bride’s dog peeing on a wedding chair, the groom feeding M&M’s to the bride on a vintage car or some guests trying to mouth feed the venue staff.
So, obviously, one of our key style elements is humor, we really do aim to getting images that will put at least a smile on anyone who sees them. And why? For two reasons: one - we love to laugh and two - this approach really keeps us motivated for every single wedding because we never know what we’re going to get!
Who or what inspires you lately?
We think our inspiration process happens on a subconscious level and can come from anything. However we do “consume” a lot of photography from very different types, from wedding photography itself to “author photography”, street photography or portrait photography. The one thing we don’t seem to consume as much is wedding photography similar to ours, we do get a lot of inspiration from wedding photographers with styles that couldn’t be more different than ours.
Our wedding photography is not just crazy and funny images, we obviously aim to accurately document a wedding, so we take all inspo we can get to improve our craft throughout all its facets. One of our biggest influences in wedding photography since we came across their existence is one of Legacy former speakers - Joel & Justyna. But we also get a lot of inspiration from photographers that create authorial work or even from our own authorial and street photography.
What aspect of this industry doesn't get talked about enough?
The client experience. We think that their experience with their photographer and photography service during the wedding day itself is extremely important. The execution of the photographer’s best work shouldn’t be a limitation to the couple’s enjoyment of their day, even if it means that are limitations to the work of the photographer. We can’t forget that ultimately a wedding is a day about celebrating someone’s union and that photography is secondary to that. We also think that our possible frustrations about those limitations we’ve mentioned (within reason) shouldn’t be apparent to the client. We should never be a stress factor to the couple, quite the opposite.
