Some people fall
in love with places.
We fell in love
with moments.
Somewhere between a career in photojournalism
and a tree falling in exactly the right direction,
we found ourselves here.
Before weddings, there was journalism.
Petrică spent fourteen years in news photography, shooting for Mediafax Foto Agency, Adevărul, Forbes, Esquire România. The kind of work where you have one frame to catch what is real, and no possibility of asking anyone to do it again. Cristina built something different but parallel: a career teaching photojournalism at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences in Bucharest, spending years thinking carefully about what a photograph carries, why some images last and others disappear.
We did not arrive at documentary wedding photography through weddings. We arrived through journalism. Through years of training the eye to find the story that is already happening in a room, without interrupting it.
"We did not arrive here through weddings.
We arrived through journalism."
Petrică literally fell out of a tree onto Cristina. That is not a metaphor. That is what happened, in 1999, when they were colleagues. They have been inseparable since.
The last sixteen years, we have photographed 337 weddings all over Europe, from Greece to Luxembourg and beyond. In baroque chapels and barn receptions. In city halls and field ceremonies. In rain and direct sun and the last light on stone walls.
We have learned one thing above all: the photographs that matter are never the ones you planned.
We moved to France because France called us, the light in the Vienne countryside, the unhurried way a celebration unfolds here, the stone and the silence and the vines. We live in Lencloître now, and we photograph weddings the same way we always have: by disappearing into them.
Sixteen years. Millions of moments.
232 awards. And somehow, we still dance.
Frequently asked questions
Who are Cristina and Petrică Tănase?
We are a Romanian couple based in Lencloître, in the Vienne (86), France. We have photographed weddings together since 2008, across Europe, both of us coming from careers in photojournalism before we turned to weddings.
Why do you only work in a documentary style?
Because it is where we come from. Years in news photography taught us to find the story already happening in a room and capture it without interrupting. We observe, we do not direct. More on how we work.
Why do you always photograph as a duo?
Two people see two things at once. While one of us is at the altar, the other is watching the guests. It is not an add-on, it is how we have worked for sixteen years, across 337 weddings.
What languages do you speak?
French, English and Romanian, all fluently. This matters for the international couples and mixed families who choose to marry in France.