We find our main creative inspiration outside weddings. We love to see photography from both, the masters in history and contemporary artists. We watch cinema from all around the world, from all genres, from both past and present. We particularly love work from those who have pushed the boundaries of both of these artforms.
It's a long list, but to keep it short we'll say that we love documentary and street photography. The notion of composition, geometry, and the decisive moment of Henri Cartier-Bresson. The humor and the absurd in the photography of Elliott Erwitt. The freedom, breaking of rules, tension, challenging of the aesthetics in the photography of Robert Frank. The color, composition, and layers of Alex Webb. We are fans of the spontaneous approach of Daniel Arnold. Constantine Manos, David Alan Harvey, Meyerowitz, Winogrand, Doisneau, Koudelka... they all have made work that inspire us in a way or another.
In Cinema we have to mention the complex yet very poetic perspective of Tarkovsky. His ideas of life and cinema. The way his whole being appears in his work is truly an inspiration. Bella Tarr and cinema as a way to explore and know more about life and the human condition. The whole idea of non-actors and the use of the cinema language by Carlos Reygadas. The importance of the journey, often times more than the destination by Theo Angelopoulos. The breaking of rules by Godard. The way Lars von Trier also defied all the established before him, and continues the challenge the both the industry and the boundaries of cinema language. The rawness in the films of Michael Haneke. Lucrecia Martel and all of her ideas on sound. All of their different perspectives on the portrayal of time and space as foundational blocks in filmmaking. Tsai Ming Liang and his very unique approach to telling stories. Victor Erice, Jose Luis Guerín, Chantal Akerman, Joshua Oppenheimer, and the whole idea that there doesn't have to be a difference between fiction and documentary.
We could write about where we find inspiration non-stop 🙂