Hello. Thank you for visiting my website. My name is Christine and I am an artist; I'm a wedding and portrait photographer as well as an aspiring quilt maker and fabric artist!
I've always loved photography, but I didn't get into it untill I completed my studied in psychology. My dad was a dentist and amateur photographer, so I grew up with camera's and photographs. I even had a basic film camera when I was young and I remember taking photographs of my parents and pets. My mother studied psychology and her family is very artistic, so naturally I wanted to be in the health care profession, but I also wanted to be an artist.
After 4 years of studying the human mind and understanding myself less and less, I realized that the art of psychology and helping people retell their stories was not exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be involved with people, but I didn't really want to be so analytical. I wanted to be more creative. I wanted something more concrete.
So, I completed my honors degree in psychology and psychometry and then I enrolled at a film photography school. It was quite a challange, because I was so use to textbooks and personality theories and photogrpahy was all about practical experience and practice! I learned all the basics; properties of light, darkroom techniques and all the technical stuff. It takes time to train your eyes to really see the light, see patterns, colours, shapes - without necessarily labeling them. We are so use to giving things names, that we don't really see the things as they are. Everything digital I learned over the years. I'm still learning.
Psychology and photography are similar in many ways; both are creative, intuitive and a journey to self discovery, connecting with others, sharing stories. I love both professions.
My drive and motivation is to tell beautiful, compelling, inspiring stories about people through pictures. I love being able to document weddings and capture those precious moments in time. You could say that I am a keen observers of humanity!
I love observing weddings. I love capturing people, naturally.
Photographs evoke in me the same joys, excitement and meaning as they do you, because we can all relate to other's emotions in our own lives.
I love my work and I realize that I can make a difference in people's lives by capturing life.
Photography is a powerful medium to communicate to the world that each person has a life story, that we are all connected and that we can relate to each other.
