MY PHILOSOPHY
I’m not your typical “fly-on-the-wall” photographer. My favorite weddings that I have ever photographed are the ones where I’ve felt I could trade my camera gear for a bridesmaids dress and fit right in with the wedding party. I’ll be there pinning boutonnieres, bustling your dress, helping calm your nerves, and trying to make you laugh. Rain or shine, you’re marrying your best friend surrounded by your favorite people, so what can be better than that? At the end of the night, I’ll be the one dancing along side you all to capture the true craziness of grandma bustin’ a move on the dance floor.
I love Love stories so I genuinely love what I do.... I love people and the couples who I get to work with. I feel privileged being the first testimonial of their Love and so grateful for their trust! I particularly enjoy when guests come to me to say "I thought you were a friend of the couple" and when a couple looking at their photos after wedding say “ That is SO US”...
Then I know I have done a good job.
ABOUT ME
Marie was born in 1981 from french father and spanish mother on a warm Christmas day! Her family was living then on beautiful french island called Martinique. They moved during her early years and grew up on Reunion island near Madagascar. After moving to other places her family finally stopped in France. There she studied and majored in international marketing at University.
But after graduating her "nomad childhood" was still calling her.... She enjoyed for a few years cultivating her free spirit travelling around the globe with her bag pack and her camera. Her favourite while travelling? Becoming "part of the people". So she learned many languages during her trips in order to observe and understand people... get close to them and photograph them.
After many buses, airplanes and boat trips she landed in Marrakech where she quickly started working with photography and decided to stay for 4 years.
In 2010 she left Morocco to move to Rome -where she is actually living- to raise with her husband their two kids.
Marie slowed down for a few years but never stopped travelling and working as her work is her passion.
Corporate visual branding consultant for over a decade now, she currently helps businesses define their visual identity through websites and the publication of marketing products and books. As a photographer, she is engaged by newspapers and magazines for editorial reportages and by luxury accommodation service providers and interior designers for staging and photoshooting (also check www.ayoophotography.com).
She is a reliable professional and natural networker - entrusted for some clients with the coordination of the entire process of books’ production and publication; some others, with the development of their whole web presence including their marketing strategy and website as well as a database of business prospects.
Among her favorites, wedding destination photo reportages in many countries of Europe and also further destinations as Hong Kong, Italy, Malaysia, Barbados, Tunisia and a regular presence in Morocco. She started in the industry a few years ago and after assisting international wedding photographers she started her own activity.
Her work experiences in the luxury industry along with her earlier travel experiences and languages learned through the world gave Marie very good tools to melt into any type of crowd. Her very discret, elegant and well educated presence on weddings give beauty, simplicity and elegance to her work, while her spontaneous and positive energy make couples and their guests feel very relaxed and sure about their choice for this important and intimate event in life.