The Artist Behind the Lens — Kitchener Wedding & Event Photographer

My wife and I came to Canada from Romania in 2004, looking for a different life. Like every immigrant, we had our share of struggle finding our footing, and our share of good years too. Today we're a family of four, with a son and a daughter, right here in Kitchener.

The camera goes back even further, though. In 1994, on my first trip to France, I bought ten rolls of Kodak 35mm film, thirty-six exposures each, and shot everything I could point a lens at. Architecture, streets, strangers.

From those ten rolls of film in France, it grew slowly. Small unpaid events, then bigger ones, then weddings and corporate galas. Somewhere in there, I stopped thinking of it as taking pictures and started thinking of it as watching for the moment nobody else catches.

I remember one wedding in Hamilton a couple of years ago. During the ceremony, right as the bride came into view, I watched the groom's face, and he just teared up. No words, no big gesture. Just a quiet, unguarded moment before anyone else in the room even noticed. I was watching him through the viewfinder, and I'm not embarrassed to say my own eyes went a little blurry too.

That's the moment I'm always half-hoping to catch. Not the one everyone's already looking at. The one happening just off to the side of it.

Based in Kitchener, I serve couples throughout Toronto, Waterloo, Cambridge, London, Niagara Falls, and beyond. When I'm not behind a camera, I'm exploring architecture, watching classic films, or adding to my ever-growing vinyl collection.