Chris Guillen Photography, Wedding Photography, Illinois - Chicago, Rockford, South Bend, and surrounding areas

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Chris Guillen Photography is here to capture your life! We work with black & white film as well as digital color. Our film photography is a beautiful art form, which allows finished prints to last generations, becoming family heirlooms like your great-grandparents’ photos. Digital color photographs are printed on beautiful “Photo Rag” paper allowing them to last generations as well. Our photographs encapsulate the quality, spirit, and personality of the event through a mix of past and present techniques.

Having four older sisters introduced Chris Guillen to the wedding scene at the ripe age of seven. He began his photography career with a B.F.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University. After graduation he swore he’d never shoot a wedding, but then met an accomplished black & white wedding photographer who opened Chris’s eyes to the way wedding photography should be done. In Chris’s opinion, there is no better poetic way to capture a wedding than using black & white film. He has now been shooting weddings since the “film days” over 14 years ago. Using film makes him uniquely selective and creative with the shots he takes because unlike digital cameras, film pictures cannot be reviewed or deleted. His experience allows him to meld art, life, and wedding knowledge with his clients and he looks forward to being a wedding photographer for decades to come.

Chris has a team of several digital shooters who he has trained to understand and capture the important wedding moments. For larger weddings, Chris prefers to bring one or more of them along to concentrate on black & white film and digital color separately. This provides better coverage for those weddings that couldn’t get the guest list under 400.

Our passion for wedding photography has provided us with the ability to recognize and capture the magical wedding moments. If you’ve read all of this, you should definitely give us a call, because we like you.

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