Affectionately we refer to the wedding of Virginia and Richard as "The Barcelona Wedding". It is a beautiful story ... that needed to be told well. I had the luxury of thinking about this wedding for a long time.
Last night we were awarded Wedding Album of the Year at the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography's annual award ceremony. It was a convincing win receiving a Gold with Distinction from the judges.
We have won this title every year it has been awarded (3 times).
I see myself as a storyteller.
I wanted to create a book that was like a personal and intimate journal.
I wanted to tell a story in a less than obvious way
I wanted the book to say these things before you even opened it.
I referred to the feel of the album as being similar to your old, comfortably worn couch.
This couch is the one where you sit in the sun and read while listening to the music that moves you. It gives you comfort and has a reality, almost a wisdom, about it that comes from years of being a couch.
I wanted the viewer to feel an honesty and a beauty when they held this amazing book.
I wanted it to suggest a quality that said way more than a bunch of photographs on a page.
This album wanted to be suggestive of a rich reward to anybody who had the privilege to hold it, and the curiosity to look inside
You could argue ‘but its just a book of pictures.’
In one sense you might be right, but the truth is that it is somebody’s dream that we have retold. Dreams are worth more than that.
I was very fortunate that my needs coincided with something that Heather Baugh from Queensberry was working on as part of a series of unique bespoke albums. Queensberry have just gone through a major exercise in redefining themselves.
The images were simple narratives of a day in the life of two beautiful people.
I am so lucky to share that day with people and put it somewhere safe for them to go back to one day.
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Wedding album of the year
Weding album of the year opening 4
Beautiful work Johannes.
Where can we see all of the sides?
Congratulations!! well done!
I agree with Megs, I'd love to see more, especially as for some reason the pics on your blog won't load properly over here...
Beautiful work, thank you. Classic, elegant and just the perfect use of sepia.
I love the cover, is the embossing your handywork?
I wish I was that talented. Those clever people at Queensberry made the physical album. They did a fantastic job
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Congrats! The album looks incredible, from what I can tell from the photos.