ABOUT

Passionate about beautiful images, originally working in Fashion and Events – concerned about the content matching the form. My love affair with images began 10 years ago, thanks to an impromptu encounter with an elegant yet wildly outdated rolleiflex. Since then, our idyll is always growing: silver, digital, everything is fine to me. I like to cultivate tenderness with a hint of chic, sensuality and spontaneity. I carve my own path with appetite and love for of my contemporaries, using my one and only compass: instinct, my taste for pretty things and beautiful souls. For a few years now, I have been traveling throughout France and the world to capture your happy moments.

Taking pictures is my way of experiencing the world. A way to approach life poetically to rekindle it and bring us back to what LIFE is truly about. To remember as well. Mother of a little boy, I act with him like Little Thumb – I retrace his journey thanks to my pictures. The same is true in my professional life. The idea is to put all my heart into everything I do. 

When I photograph weddings I like to favor intimacy. I do not sit still under the same tent like strangers awkwardly brought together by fortune. Just like my Wanderings, Words, Writing, Photography: to me, weddings form a precious bond, forged in mind and heart. At my side, in front of my lens, you can put down the mask and lay the grimaces so often indispensable in our World to rest – you can open your heart. 

My DNA…

• A myriad of inspirations from the world of Photography; obviously mainly from women tightrope walkers who (almost) all maintain an unstable balance between naive shots and voluntary provocations.

  I like Leibovitz, a revolutionary portraitist, dual, mixing rock and glamour, Vivian Meyer for her daring streetstyle and her talented but modest practice of invisibility, Sally Mann and her hypnotic and disturbing poignant black and whites, Sophie Calle and her relationship to intimacy and details...

  When it comes to paintings, I like introverted monomaniacs such as the fascinating Danish artist Hammershøi and his bare interiors, his almost monochrome, atonic works that exude a melancholic charm, a dreamy, symbolist and distant universe.

  Among the Pantheon of my favorites I also add Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot who emphasizes the expression of atmosphere and the changing effects of light; and finally, Anders Leonard Zorn, a virtuoso watercolourist, this man lived several lives and it not only shows, it feels, around the splendid lights and an astonishing mastery of the representation of water, tributes to the simplicity of life.

  I could not finish this array of favorites without a special mention to François Xavier Delmeire, a gifted and discreet mix and match gold digger, because time does not exist in his collages, the time of his conception as well as the time of his ingredients, making his bread and butter by taking revenge on a past so intricately woven with the present. 

• An approach of documentary and cinematographic photography to tell History – Yours – and to seize “the defining moment”, to make the fleeting permanent. 

• I like my pictures to embrace the World with a sensitivity that I wish infinite. -For a poetic and quasi-pictorial universe that gives prominence to the instantaneous, the dreams and the true emotion. 
  - Do not negotiate who you are and cultivate beautiful encounters. 
  - be aware that imagination, poetry and art are both revealing and antidotes.

Here, we lay our bare hearts on the table. You are here because we recognize ourselves without knowing each other. Let us remedy that. 
By chance or destiny, let us get to know each other. Let us tell the unexpected and believe in the marvelous together. 
Give yourself a parenthesis by my side, a break in the race for time, on the occasion of your future weddings, a birth, an event that is not necessarily one; to make these unique, delicate, sensitive and joyful interludes last forever.

Sonja / kalickysonja@gmail.com / Paris / +33607043887