This Is What It Looks Like
When You Stop Performing
And Just Love Each Other.
New York City & Destination
Elopements & Intimate Stories.
I’m Valentina. I won’t ask you to become different people just because there’s a camera in the room.
I’ll give you direction when you need it, figure out what feels natural to you, and step back when you don’t need me.
What can we make together
Intimate Stories
At home, wandering your neighborhood, back at the bar where you met, halfway across the world, the location matters less than having a reason to be there.
You don't need to know what to do with your hands or show up already comfortable in front of a camera. I'll give you direction, figure out what feels natural between the two of you, and leave room for things I couldn't have planned.
No matching-outfit requirement. No pretending to laugh. No need to become a more photogenic version of your relationship.
Keep the traditions you care about. Skip the ones you don't. Get dressed together, eat somewhere incredible, bring twelve people or bring nobody. There isn't a right way to make a day matter.
I'll help when you need direction, pay attention when you don't, and photograph everything around the ceremony too: the nerves, the interruptions, the people you love, and whatever wasn't on the timeline.
Elopements and Small Weddings
We went to Venice.
My digital camera didn't make it. t died before we even started.
Then our train was late, which meant we didn't make it to any of the places we'd planned to photograph.
So I shot the whole thing on film. We just walked, and I did what I always do in a new place: paid attention to what caught my eye.
We worked with the time and the city we actually had instead of chasing the Venice we thought we were supposed to photograph.
And somehow, we still got exactly what I wanted from the beginning.
Them.
