I ate goat. I probably won’t do it again…
But it was still unlike anything I’ve encountered at a wedding before. It’s not often that I have to just sit down and just take in my surroundings like I did during this party.
Fatim and Eric’s wedding was incredible to say the least. For one, it was my first wedding in Washington DC, but it was also a meeting of two completely different cultures. There were guests from across the entire world and I’m pretty sure they covered at least five continents. The combination of dancing, love, and joy between a room full of people where many didn’t even speak the same languages was something I only studied while attaining my degree in anthropology. I never expected to experience something like this, especially not while shooting weddings. Everyone was so warm and welcoming to me and I even received invitations to come back to Africa to visit with my new family members.
What an amazing wedding.
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It’s so much easier to capture images of people in love once you’ve fallen in love yourself.
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The excitement and readiness that the brothers exhibited while I took their photos was nothing short of inspiring. As soon as I pointed my camera lens at them they were all poses and smiles. You can’t really ask for much more than that as a photographer.
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The grandmother of the bride was a Senoufo woman from Côte d’Ivore in Africa. There was a real language barrier between the two of us; and while she knew a few of my english words, I knew none of hers… in fact, I don’t even know the language she spoke. Nonetheless by the second day of shooting the wedding we had the ability to communicate in the most linguistically human way possible, through emotion. We’d share knowing glances and smiles and laughs. We shared the event and the moments and the jubilation that was so thick in the room during the celebrations. It was after we were able to make this connection that I could turn my camera on her and capture this portrait.
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