Wedding Photos Italy

Wedding Plumage

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:47:16 +0000

Yeah I must admit it, I love the mesmerizing kaleidoscopic colourful glittering and fluttering wedding plumage! And I have the irresistible instinct to collect images of this visual feast that weddings offer. I bet all you women can understand what I mean…. Here are some pics from my ‘collection’, hope you enjoy them! Michela

Unbelievable, absolutely extraordinary: WPJA 2009 Photographer of the Year!!! …Again!

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:37:29 +0000

“Hi Carlo,

Congrats! It’s official. You are the 2009 WPJA POY!!!

This is an incredible achievement considering you won in 2006 as well. A first for the WPJA! ……..

David Roberts, WPJA”

This is the email I received from David Roberts, the founder of WPJA, and today the official news has been published. It’s almost unbelievable to receive these news on my birthday! I can hardly express my happiness for this most important achievement. The Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA) is the most representative professional organization composed of photojournalists and wedding photographers from around the world. It’s a great honor to be part of this organization and to receive this prestigious acknowledgment. I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt thanks to WPJA and to all my precious colleagues and friends for all their support, friendship and appreciation.

Find here below the WPJA article:

For the second time in three years Carlo Carletti of Italy has been honored with the prestigious WPJA Photographer of the Year (POY). Carletti is the first to win the title twice, having won it previously in 2006 (WPJA Wedding Photographer of the Year ‘06). In addition to the honor and a $1,000 grand prize, Carletti’s name, for the second time, will be permanently engraved on a traveling trophy, which he is to keep for one year.

Carletti credits his historic accomplishment to an unwavering belief in wedding photojournalism. “WPJA is more than just a collection of photographers,” says Carletti from his home in Siena, Italy, in picturesque Tuscany. “It’s a style that has changed wedding photography. When I photograph a wedding, this style is in my head and heart. It allows me to tell the spontaneous story of the wedding day.”

Carletti’s photojournalistic sensibility, forged by many years spent working for magazines and newspapers, energize his award-winning images with wit, style and drama. Storytelling is key to Carletti’s success. He sees weddings as books with chapters, he says, and it’s up to him to find “the connecting thread running through the scenes. ”To do that Carletti never uses a telephoto lens. He prefers jumping into the action using wide angle (24mm) to normal (50mm) lenses on his Canon and Nikon digital cameras for up-close, inside perspectives. Carletti knows he mustfeel the moment to capture it effectively, and he cannot do that at a distance

Over the course of his nearly 25-year career, he has published four books of photography.

Winning the POY award in 2006 brought him international attention and he now photographs American and English couples that want to marry in Italy. He travels extensively throughout the country photographing weddings, but cites Venice as his favorite location.

His work is currently on exhibition in Galleria Istantanea in Siena, which Carletti recently opened with four fellow photographers to promote fine art photography. Included in the show are some of his wedding photographs. “We want to show that wedding photography can have artistic integrity.”

Lorna Gentry / For the Wedding Photojournalist Association

La Dolce Vita

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:53:51 +0000

There is the city of Rome with its incredible charm and beauty. It’s the city of “La dole Vita” and of the Paparazzi….in this case Carlo & Angelo! Here are some candid photos set in the unique scenario of the Eternal City. It’s especially in these occasions that I enjoy and appreciate reportage photography. It captures the beauty of the moment as it naturally happens set into its context and it all adds so much to the “aesthetics” of a wedding.

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Galleria ISTANTANEA

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:04:15 +0000

Hi everybody! We are proud to announce the opening of Galleria ISTANTANEA, the first space dedicated to the world of Fine Art photography in Siena. The opening was on 23rd January, it has been a real success beyond my expectations! The place was packed with enthusiastic people who showed their appreciation for the place and this new project in in the city. We are a team of 4 photographers who, in addition to crate a showcase for our work, have the purpose to promote national and international artists, providing quality and original photography to established and emerging collectors and to cater to special events in support of fine art photography.
So if you have the chance to come to Siena you are invited to visit the Galleria Istantanea!

And in the mean time ..have a look at the gallery by clicking on the image here below:

Our new 2010 Creations!

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:21:48 +0000

We are proud to launch our brand new 2010 products! Besides a new series of books designed by us and superbly hand made by Tuscan artisans, this year we have implemented all our packages with a new exclusive creation: a Web Gallery hosted in a private area of our web site, with a selection of the best photos of your wedding, to be viewed in full screen mode. You can share the web gallery with your friends and relatives, and it is possible to download the files of the images in high resolution suited to any printing format. For the first time you can download the FILES instead of ordering prints from the photographer.

Michela’s Gallery 2009

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:39:35 +0000

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Say “I do” in Lucca

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:38:20 +0000

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Volterra on our mind

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:38:15 +0000

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Get ready to Jump!

admin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:44:15 +0000

Jumping is Happiness, Life, Love. It symbolizes the achievement of new goals and the future looks promising. Jumping leads to laughter and releases the tension. Often our couples jump and we love to see what happens in the pictures, the outcome is always unexpected, exciting and often hilarious. So feel the joy of the jump! You are in love and you are free – free as air…

Irish Wedding

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:01:44 +0000

Few days ago we shooted an Irish wedding here in Tuscany, which is someting that happens quite often to us, but it certainly doesn’t happen so often to have the honour to meet the President of Ireland Mary McAleese and her husband at the wedding! It was a beautiful event with such an intimate atmosphere, Angelo and I were so proud to be part of it as I think it shows in the photo here below with the President and her husband! It doesn’t happen every day to be shot by the President’s army woman with our Canon..! Michela