Starting as a political news and celebrity portrait photographer in DC, Sam was instantly drawn to wedding photography as a space to promote more inventive ideas. Sam’s focus is on photographic techniques that are deceptively simple but have the potential to transform difficult or uninspiring shooting environments into one-of-a-kind opportunities for every photo made.
There is no venue quite like the American Visionary Art Museum for a wedding. Those mosaic walls covered in mirror shards and cobalt glass are a dream to shoot against, especially when the afternoon light starts bouncing around and breaking apart in every direction. Frank and Paige let me lean all the way into that, and you can see it in the photos where the reflections multiply them, double them, wrap them in this kind of soft prism of light. I love when a place gives me something to play with, and AVAM gave me a lot.
What really stuck with me though was how easy these two were together. The top of Fed Hill with the Baltimore skyline behind them, the golden hour moment by the roses, the way they kept laughing during their first dance up high above the harbor. None of it felt staged. I just kept following them around downtown and trying to keep up. If you are planning a Baltimore wedding and you want something that feels a little more art-driven and a little less cookie cutter, AVAM is hard to beat.
Photographers… you can find deconstructions of images like these and more over on my patreon feed.
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