ABOUT

Luxury Wedding Photography in Paris, Normandie, Loire Valley and Burgundy – Capturing Timeless Memories with Cinematic&Glamorous Elegance

Here, by my side, it is a time to dream and to dare.
As a luxury wedding photographer in Paris, Normandy, Burgundy, and beyond, my passion for capturing beautiful moments has been shaped by my background in fashion and events. I approach every wedding with a mix of technical precision and creative artistry. My journey with photography began 10 years ago, thanks to an impromptu encounter with an elegant yet wildly outdated Rolleiflex. Since then, my love affair with photography has evolved, incorporating both analog and digital techniques. I take pleasure in crafting a visual narrative that mixes tenderness, chic, sensuality, and spontaneity. This is my unique signature, built on instinct, my taste for the finer things, and a deep appreciation for beautiful souls.

For the past few years, I have traveled throughout France and beyond, capturing luxurious weddings, elopements and intimate celebrations in iconic places like châteaux in Normandy, Burgundy, Paris, Provençal villas, and the Perche countryside. As a destination wedding photographer, I am privileged to document couples’ most cherished moments at some of the most beautiful venues in the world, including the majestic châteaux of the Loire Valley and the stunning Riviera.

Le Joli Studio: Your Wedding Story Told with Elegance and Cinematic Style

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.

Why Choose Le Joli Studio for Your Destination Wedding in France?

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 luxury wedding in one of the stunning Châteaux in France or intimate wedding in Paris. Whether you’re planning a grand wedding in Provence, a destination wedding in Normandy, or an elegant celebration in Loire valley, we can capture your day with grace, sophistication, and timeless elegance.

My mission is to create glamorous, poetic, cinematic wedding photography that tells the unique story of your love, wherever in France your celebration takes place. Whether it's an intimate elopement in the Perche or provencal farmhouse, a glamorous Riviera wedding, or a pharaonic wedding in Burgundy, let’s work together to craft memories that will last a lifetime.

Let me help you make these moments truly unforgettable. Let’s create your perfect wedding story, with beauty, authenticity, and a touch of magic.

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