5 West Studios

16/05/2016

Small weddings are awesome.

27/10/2015

These two were pure expression. Loved it.

The magic of weddings is both greater and simpler than I ever imagined. Several hundred weddings in and over ten years through, I’ve come to see it’s not just the love, the romance, the ritual, or even the people. It’s beyond the beauty. Beyond the thing itself.

19/10/2015

I have a good job. These two.

So often, as photographers, we have a job that dwells on the perfect day. If you take all the perfect things with the perfect moments and perfect perfection of it all, it must add up to something more. But what of a human day? A day of people and hugs and hearts felt and selfies taken, and the simpl…

14/10/2015

This is how wedding days should feel.

It’s always the smallest of things that catch your attention. The way two people stand. The way they look at one another. They way their bodies move around when they’re together. Sometimes, as with Ellen and Will, there’s a comfort there. Not as in two bodies entangled and entwined, but something mu…

08/09/2015

Keeping things rolling with Casey and Gerardo. Gotta love a wedding in SoHo with an awesome couple. Amazing day!

It’s always the smallest of things that catch your attention. The way two people stand. The way they look at one another. They way their bodies move around when they’re together. Sometimes, as with Ellen and Will, there’s a comfort there. Not as in two bodies entangled and entwined, but something mu…

31/08/2015

Good day? Oh yeah...

As the breeze drifted by and the smell of the grass wafted through the air of the Hudson Valley, you knew this was something special. Bianca and Alex, holding each other minutes after the ceremony in a perfect embrace, tears streaming, reminding you that this is what weddings are for. Love, passion,…

20/08/2015

Lovely days at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.

10/08/2015

Loved these two.

In all my years doing this, I’ve never seen a wedding where a couple poured so much of their hearts and talent into the creation and design of the wedding. Kasia didn’t just look amazing in the dress. She designed and made the dress. Nick, an artist in his own right, created many of the design eleme…

03/08/2015

Would you like to define your voice? For all you photographers out there, I'm running an uber-intense workshop in August and October.

Straight up, no chaser. This is a hardcore cram session for people who want to crush barriers and see differently. Taking place in Brooklyn with New York City as your playground, each photographer will create a personal project over the course of the workshop. We will use these projects to examine y…

19/05/2015

Had a thoroughly enjoyable time trekking around Fort Tilden with Linda and Maurice. So good.

Some days are just plain good days. The weather is perfect, the light is right, and everything comes together. And that’s how the day was. Breezy and briny, with just a trace of wind in the air, we walked through the Fort Tilden area, exploring abandoned buildings, hidden paths, and the beautiful be…

07/05/2015

A little sharing for the day.