We are Graziano & Melinda
A passionate Italian-Hungarian couple and International Award winning wedding Photojournalists based in Budapest and serving also in Austria and in Italy, but we are available to discuss a work anywhere you need.
How we make your day special
Our wedding photography style is mainly Photojournalism,
but we also like to do creative portraiture. We aim to capture the atmosphere and the true emotions, focusing on telling your story, with special care on the real moments. Yes, that's what we love, it doesn't matter if you’re getting married, if it's a family on holiday or a business person looking for a new portrait. Whatever is the situation, we’re dedicated to giving you images that celebrate your life and that can be an inspiration for your best friends.
Another important motto in our philosophy of work at weddings is "it's your day, not ours", we give maximum importance to the fact that it's your most important day, we want you to be yourselves, without being told what to do. That's why we don't interfere in what's happening during the day (except when we set some portraits, obviously). Standing aside will allow us to capture the most natural gestures and the most spontaneous emotions and feelings.
So whether you book us for your wedding, but also for a portrait session, for a joyful photo session with your family, or for a so-called lifestyle photography service, we will make sure that you will have amazing and emotional real memories to look back on.
Photography is our passion - and we believe to show that through our pictures.
AWARD WINNING PHOTOGRAPHY
In the last years we collected a good amount of International Awards in some of the most world-renowned institutions such as Fearless Photographers, Mywed, ISPWP, This Is Reportage, WPJA, WPS, etc., We are not used to "admire ourselves in the mirror" but to watch all together the International Awards we achieved in the last few years makes us very proud, and with this we also want to thank all the amazing couples that chose us as their photographers, because they are giving us the freedom to surprise them with our experiments and ideas. It's not about the Awards, but as we said we are always looking to try something different and to push the boundaries of our photography, and we believe that the best way to do it is to measure ourselves with the best photographers in the field, moreover these established associations are an endless source of inspiration to us! We are proud of them because they are the result of a lot of hard work 🙂
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- "TOP 100" wedding photographer in the world 2021 on Fearless Photographers association
- "TOP 100" wedding photographer 2021 on This Is Reportage association
- "TOP 100" International Wedding Photographer of the year 2018 at the Artistic Guild of the WPJA (Wedding Photo Journalists Association)
- 100 Editors´Choice on Mywed.com (the largest community in the world of professional wedding photographers with over 60.000 photographers)
- 8 Fearless Photographers AWARDS (over 10.000 entries in each contest), 5 Honorable Mentions, and 8 photos "Best of Italy"
- 1 photo selected between the "Best Wedding Photos of 2015" on Fearless Photographers
- 8 Reportage AWARDS in "This Is Reportage" (the most famous association of just pure documentary wedding photography)
- 5 Story AWARDS in "This Is Reportage"
- 2 Wedding Story credited between the "Best of the Year" 2016 and 2019, and 2 photos credited "Best of the Year" 2015 and 2020 on Mywed.com
- 12 Wedding Stories got Editors' Choice on Mywed.com
- "TOP 50" in 2014 Mywed International Contest (on over 40.000 professional wedding photographers around the world)
- "Finalist" in 2015 Mywed International Contest
- "Finalist" in 2016 Mywed International Contest/Nikon Awards, in the categories "First Dance", "Epic Fail" and "Getting Ready"
- "Finalist" in 2019 Mywed International Contest/Nikon Awards, in the categories "Glances and Looks" and "Getting Ready"
- "Finalist" in 2020 Mywed International Contest/Nikon Awards, in the categories "F*ck off COVID-19", "Cake Cutting", "Getting Ready", "Customs and Folkways", "Wedding Guests", "In the RAW" and "Not So Simple" (on over 60.000 professional wedding photographers around the world)
- 1st place in the ISPWP Winter 2021 contest, category "Covid-19 wedding" - 5th place in the ISPWP Fall 2019 contest, category "Humor", 10th place "Love and Emotions" ISPWP Summer 2022
- 15 Awards for Documentary Wedding Photography in WPJA contests (Wedding Photo Journalists Association)
- 16 Diamond Awards for Engagement Portraits in WPJA contests (Wedding Photo Journalists Association)
- 11 Awards from the Artistic Guild of Wedding Photojournalists in WPJA contests (Wedding Photo Journalists Association)
- 6 Excellence Awards on "WPS - Wedding Photography Select" (UK based wedding photographers association)
- 3 photos Awarded at the 2017 CEWES (Central European Wedding Show) Hungarian contest
- 3 photos Awarded at the 2019 CEWES (Central European Wedding Show) Hungarian contest
- 1st and 2nd prize at "WeLoveWeddings" magazine 2016 contest (Hungary), category "Funny Moments" (on over 3000 entries)
- 1st and 3rd prize category "Getting Ready", 1st prize category "Touching Moments" and 3rd prize category "Real Wedding - Complete Story" at "WeLoveWeddings.hu" magazine 2017 contest (Hungary)
- Our photos featured in different articles on Huffington Post
The Team
Melinda
Lara
