About
Weddings are not staged. They happen once.
I work the way documentary photographers do: present, quiet, unnoticed. Nothing is directed. Nothing is repeated for the camera.
The Leica M has no autofocus. It focuses the way a hand does: slowly, by feel, by instinct. Every photograph is a decision.
What I keep
The frames others delete. The blur when she turns. The grain in the dark. The glance nobody posed for.
That is what the day felt like. A perfect picture of a moment that never happened is worth nothing to me.
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Leica M
Digital and film, side by side. No zoom, no burst. One frame at a time.
II
Light
I studied light before I studied photography. It still decides where I stand.
III
Cinema
Malick, Wong Kar-wai, Bergman. And mono no aware: beauty matters because it passes.
The photographer
My name is Darío. I live in the south of Spain, by the sea. I photograph weddings with one rule: nothing is staged, nothing is repeated.
When I am not at a wedding, I am in the street with the same camera, or working on editorial commissions. I work with a small team I trust completely: behind the cameras, never in front of them.
Some of our sessions take place at Villa Astrida, once the summer house of the King and Queen of Belgium.
— shoot with Leica M
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