Photographs of what it felt like.
I don’t want to deliver mind blowing photographs, or ones that only end up fading in trend’s time. I want to deliver photographs of what it felt like; living, existing, remembering with your entire body. Photographs that make any venue feel like your own living room. Photographs where I am your second pair of eyes on your wedding day so that you can see things you possibly couldn’t have because you were immersed, and as you should be. Photographs that revel in the quiet moments that make up our human experience, intertwined in our own idiosyncrasies. The way we talk with our hands and wipe love from our tear ducts, the way we wait for last light to head inside and stand in circles to contain a conversation. These moments that are continuous, endlessly presenting itself to us. What we notice, what we are undeniably drawn to at the end of a full day. What we become achingly grateful for at the end of a full life. The home you choose to get married in makes this. The people make this. The two of you make this. I am just here to document what that feels like to you. So, choose based on feeling because at the end of it all, nothing matters most.
The warm familial sound of a room filled with the people you love.
I am often asked the question of how do I not tire of shooting weddings, photographing the same thing over and over again. And I fill with gratitude every time I am asked that, because no matter how many times I shoot at the same venue, immersed in the same culture, documenting a ceremony hundreds of times, every, single, wedding, is vastly different. And so is every person’s story. I’ll never tire of the human nature that explodes and bursts during wedding days. And it is incredibly infectious and continuously fueling. No matter where, no matter when.
From the warm familial sound of a room filled with the people you love, to the thrilling feeling of running down that aisle newly married to the person you’ve chosen to love. These are the moments that will allow you to relive your wedding day over and over for decades to come.
Nataly Zigdon is a Bay Area based film and digital documentary wedding photographer.
When I had first started out in photography, I fell madly for street photography. Photographing moments that to some might seem mundane or ordinary, I couldn’t help but see them much deeper. My love and experience with street photography has had an influential impact on my wedding photography. By photographing people and their subtle expressive emotions when they least notice, or telling a story through photographs simply by being present and observant on your wedding day.
I strive to capture natural and organic moments that are often over looked. I love documenting through storytelling that you'll fall in love with reliving over and over.
Other than the copious amounts of time laying my eyes on photographs, I write. Constantly. On paper, in my head, out loud. I can put away an entire tiramisu to myself. I suffer from nostalgia and search for the sentiment in everything I do. Affection & words of affirmation are my love language. Truly connecting to my surroundings is what fuels me. And I am happiest when surrounded by and consuming figs.
