Up Close with Kristina
Photographer and Creative Director
Incredible people. Incredible Love. And yes, a total celebration of old-school romance, every day of the week! That could easily be Kristina Bastien’s artistic gist. A little close-up? Unmissable details, contrasting flashes of pure zest and soft energy, the joie de vivre (et aimer) — as youthful as it is nostalgic — sweeps through wedding photography galleries curated to perfection. Always on world, in tune with her clients’ zeitgeist, her feel-good, Love-is-your-very-own-museum-of memory visuals will constantly remind you that lightness can be sassy, statement-making incurably romantic, and idyll donned with the most wistful edge of analog cool.
Over to You KB
“I dare say I was born into weddings. My father was a pastor, and I still hold that red book with photographs of his married couples very dear. Then it was trips to wedding fairs with my mother, a take of sorts on your casual museum visit. My very first exposure to high fashion was rakes brimful of wedding gowns and bridal magazines tucked under my bed. Perhaps these partly justify why I consider capturing everyone’s habitual elegance so important. Sometimes a little rebellious but at the same time effortlessly individual, wearing my heart on the sleeve. We love in unfettered ways. An artistic eye, even intuitively, conducts what’s in that click (magic is seldom coincidental). But at the end of the day the moments that stay unforgettable are those you self choreograph because you never stop living in these photos.”
Up Close with Jean-Philippe
Auteur and Filmmaker
How can anyone fully and unequivocally register the essence of love? The core of humanity’s most universal emotion often seems, quite frankly, unfilmable. All the more reason for JP to create movies that marry the overt with what lingers, a party’s carefree abandon with the intimacy of loving and being loved. With his rich background in music production, and the sheer escapism of the world’s most photogenic destinations in Bastien’s agenda, JP’S films are transportive, acute, and intentional. Details accrete and connect with vistas, with technicolor and monochrome, with energies quiet and intense — all telling deeper stories—and yes there is his little agent provocateur in the mix: a dash of humor.
Over To You JP
"The surest way for a filmmaker to clear out a dinner party is to discuss their technical abilities, their daring and distinctive vision, their cinematic punctuation, or how they make a scene dissolve. Weddings unspool such a profound sense of wonder, they are often the biggest day of someone’s life, consecutive hours of full exuberance, with surges of emotions, happenings (plus the inevitable knocking on people’s knees as one takes their seat at the ceremony). My reason to do wedding films is that I come from a home where I’ve known nothing but Love. I constantly felt the presence. So my movies translate exactly this. Unscripted for the most part, they are places where everything and everyone you love turns up present. This onscreen glance at your own life never grows old."