“On a wedding day I do everything with your experience in mind. I won't keep you posing for hours. I'd much rather you enjoyed yourselves and let me photograph you as you really are”
Forget posing for hours. Damien Zurowski would rather photograph couples as they enjoy themselves, and on a wedding day everything he does is built around their experience. He'd sooner capture the bride's shoes while she's dancing than arrange them somewhere odd just because it's trendy. That sums up his approach. Rather than following the usual wedding formula, he asks himself how he'd want his own wedding photographed, and works from there.
Damien grew up in Poland and moved to Spain, drawn to the Mediterranean since he was young. He arrived without knowing anyone and built everything from scratch. Before weddings, he worked in fashion and events, so turning to weddings, which are both at once, felt like a natural step. Valencia is home now, and he photographs weddings all over the world.
For most of the day, he's an active observer. Couples get on with their wedding while he draws out the best reactions from their guests and photographs what's really happening. For the portraits, he steps in and directs, and that's where his own vision comes through. How much he guides and how much he steps back is different for every couple, which is why he spends time getting to know them long before the day.
Couples receive every photograph a wedding needs, and alongside those, Damien always finds a moment to make art. He works with different cameras, film, lighting, even texture scanners, and he's always experimenting with something new. For him, it all comes down to the people. A wedding brings everyone who has shaped a couple into one room for a few hours, and they show who they are without even trying. He loves the soft chaos of it.
Damien takes on a limited number of weddings each year, so every couple can be approached differently. It keeps the work personal, and it keeps him in love with it.
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