About me
A little about me
My name is Caroline.
I’ve been taking photographs since I was fifteen, but I think my story with images began long before that.
There was my father’s manual Rollei camera, which he taught me how to use; the Olympus Mju my mother used to photograph our everyday life; and then all those family photographs we keep without necessarily knowing, at the moment they’re taken, which ones will one day become important.
I’ve always kept a lot of things, too. Letters, plane tickets, hotel cards, little objects brought home from a trip, sometimes even a shell picked up somewhere along the way.
I think I photograph for much the same reason. Because, with time, a photograph becomes something more than a beautiful image. It can bring back a person, a gesture, a room, a certain light. The way someone looked at you. What was left on the table. Who was there. And sometimes, the things no one thought to pay attention to at the time.
That’s probably why, when I photograph a wedding, I spend so much time looking at what’s happening around you.
Of course I notice the big moments, but also your families, your friends, what’s happening in the corner of a room while everyone else is looking the other way, the objects you chose, the familiar gestures, and everything that says something about who you are without ever having been intended for a photograph.
I grew up between French, Mexican and Spanish families. With several languages spoken around the same table, different traditions, and sometimes very different ways of showing affection. It taught me early on to observe people and to understand that many of the important things aren’t necessarily said out loud.
Today, I live in the French Alps and photograph weddings in France and beyond, in French, English and Spanish.
I work primarily on film, with digital photography alongside it when it has a place. I photograph mostly by observing, and rarely by interrupting. And when I do step in, it’s because a little direction can help you forget about the camera, or because I see the possibility of creating a particular image together.
I don’t want to decide in advance what you’ll want to remember.
I want to know you well enough to know where to look.
My work has been published by The Anti-Bride and PhotoVogue, and exhibited in Paris, Edinburgh, Tokyo and New York.
But more than anything, when you look back at your photographs years from now, I hope you’ll recognise your world in them.
