Work
Ananda’s work is a blend of two approaches. The first is a perceptive photojournalistic style, capturing real candid moments, while being very attuned to emotion, mood and beauty. This is combined with a more editorial approach of more directed created images that provide artistic accents to tell a beautiful story. Here is how she describes her style and work at a wedding:
“My style is my own mixture of photojournalism combined with editorial style artistic created photographs. Most of my wedding photography is candid, capturing the real events and feelings of the day. During a wedding, I often work quietly in the background absorbing what happens, the emotions and relationships of my clients and taking photographs, without interfering with the beauty of what really happens. I also capture details, colors and textures to reflect the mood, atmosphere and the couple’s personality. I combine this with some moments in which I sharing the joy of the day and having fun with my clients, interacting with them by giving gentle direction to a shot. This can give the couple the opportunity to take a break, laugh, notice something pretty and focus on themselves… and the result are beautiful pictures to complement candid photographs. Weddings are beautiful in so many levels and I truly love to be able to tell that story in a way that reflects that.”
As well as being a wedding and lifestyle photographer, Ananda works on personal fine-art projects which have been exhibited and published (see press above). Her fine art work is not only a way of self-expression as an artist, but aslo serves as an exercise for her eye and creativity, which informs and influences work with her clients.
You can see her work or read about her work from her clients on the ‘galleries’ and ‘praise’ links above. You can also always contact us or Ananda by using the contact form.
Life
Ananda was born in Brasilia, Brazil, where she could experience first hand an eclectic mixture of the modern architectural style Oscar Niermayer, brightly painted houses and tropical landscapes. She then lived for several years in Australia, where she soaked in the desert pastels and ocean blues first started documenting her experience in photography. These early experiences where important in developing her first sensibility to light, color, contrast and appreciating different forms of beauty. Her next stop was Los Angeles, where she was enrolled at UCLA to obtain a Ph.D. in linguistics. She ended up changing course as her passion for photography grew and took over during the four years she went to graduate school. It was also there that she found her other love, her soulmate and now husband, Dan. Today she lives in Maplewood, NJ (just outside of New York City) with Dan and their son Noah.
