Almost ten years on, this is still one of the most enchanting weddings I’ve ever filmed and the woods did most of the work. Convento dell’Annunciata, near Medole in the province of Mantova, is a 15th-century convent tucked inside seven hectares of forest not far from Lake Garda. The couple chose to hold their ceremony...
Some weddings feel like work with good moments in it. This one felt like a party we happened to be filming. Demi and Mark, an American couple, chose Villa Boscarello in Trequanda for their wedding a 17th-century estate tucked between the Crete Senesi and the Val d’Orcia, with the kind of golden Tuscan hills around...
Sacro Monte di Varese isn’t a typical wedding location and that’s exactly what makes it work. A UNESCO World Heritage sanctuary perched above the city, reached by a steep, winding path lined with chapels, it’s a place built for pilgrimage, not for weddings. Riccardo and Diana chose it anyway, and I think it’s one of...
Sony just dropped the FX5, and I got my hands on one early at a demo event at TAV Academy in Cologno Monzese, alongside my Nikon ZR and the Blazar Talon 50mm anamorphic I’ve been using more and more lately. The FX5 itself is a serious piece of kit: full-frame, 5K open gate straight out...
Getting married in the middle of winter, inside a royal palace, isn’t for everyone but Edoardo and Aurora made it look like the only reasonable choice. The ceremony was held inside Reggia di Venaria Reale, one of the Savoy family’s former royal residences just outside Turin. Baroque halls, endless galleries, the kind of architecture that...
Not every wedding follows the same script, and Federico & Carla’s definitely didn’t. They called it their own wedding festival, and that’s really what it was colourful flowers everywhere, a looser, more playful energy than a typical ceremony, and a guest list that showed up ready to celebrate rather than just watch. It rained for...
This one goes back a few years October 8th, 2016, to be exact but it’s stayed one of the films I’m proudest of. Tamila, from Brazil, and Alessandro, born and raised in Ferrara, said their vows at the Church of Ognissanti in the heart of Florence, before moving out to Castello di Vincigliata for the...
Ben and Anne came to Lake Maggiore from abroad for their wedding Anne is English, Ben is Australian and the lake gave them exactly what they were looking for: that particular kind of elegance that only comes from centuries-old villas, still water, and light that changes every twenty minutes. The ceremony was held at the...
Hiking in the Italian mountains is one of those experiences that doesn’t need much help to feel cinematic but shooting it in RAW makes you notice things you’d otherwise walk straight past. I spent a day near Valmalenco, close to one of the small mountain churches in the area, walking through two abandoned towns where...
Villa Rusconi Clerici doesn’t need much dressing up. Right on the water in Pallanza, on Lake Maggiore, it’s one of those venues where the hardest part of the job is deciding which angle to shoot first. https://www.instagram.com/p/DdlMBkEAAa2 Daria and Alessio got married in the church right beside the villa, then moved everything else aperitivo, dinner,...