Erika Gerdemark is a photographer based in Sweden. Last summer she met Elin, a bride from 2006, for a session in central Stockholm. See more about Erika’s work at her website or at her blog.
website: www.gerdemark.se
blog: www.gerdemark.se/blog
Jenny Blad: Sweden October 15, 2008
Contributed by: Jenny Blad
Alexandra called me up just a couple of weeks before her wedding – asking me if there was any chance
that I could shoot her wedding. But it was too late – I had been booked solid that day for quite a while.
So I suggested that we could do a ttd session instead after the wedding – and she was all for it – great
that will be a suprise for my husband she said!
So I had this really cool location in mind – we ofcourse had a blast!
Jenny Blad – Sweden August 24, 2007
Contributed by: Jenny Blad
I´ve been working as a photographer for only three years but it is going quite well for me already – which I am soooooo happy about! My style is very “active”. I like when I browse through a couple’s album and a lot of things are happening in it – I also love colour – so sparkly coloured backgrounds when I shoot weddings is something I often strive for. I love to mix things up so a lovely couple with their lovely wedding clothes and looking as gorgeous as they can combined with a really scruffy background is my taste. BUT I make sure that I can manage all styles. How boring would it be to just do ONE style all the time????
With this TTD session, I had a reaaalllly tight scedule the day of this couples wedding because I had two other wedding portrait sessions this day so I asked the bride if she had bought her dress or was renting it. She had made it herself and wasn´t at all particular about hanging on to it afterwards. So I presented the idea about this TTD session and they were all for it.
Petra Hall – Sweden August 18, 2007
Contributed by: Petra Hall
I live in northern Sweden, in a small town called Piteå. 2007 is my third season at shooting weddings, however it’s not a full-time job, as I also do other things. My wedding style is a mix of traditional portraits and capturing moments. In my images I hope to relay both romance, passion and fun and I often get my subjects to relax and feel that taking portraits is one of the most fun parts of their wedding day.
With this Trash the Dress session, I loved the fact that I (and the bride) could let all inhibition fly out the window and shoot great portraits in environments that are not very common when shooting wedding portraits. The contrast between the beautiful and delicate in contrast with the urban and dirty intrigues me. The goal is not to actually destroy the dress or relay some type of depressed feeling but to be less careful of the dress than on the wedding day and thus getting some killer bridal portraits.
In the images below, we tried to tell a story about a bride waiting for her man to show up for their wedding, but he never turned up. She waits by the harbor, and then she decides to dive into the water to fetch her man, but she gives up (maybe she had a wake-up call by the cold water!) and she returns to shore, removes her dress and leaves.
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