ABOUT
photographer &
Director, NIEKE
Based in Stuttgart and working across Europe, my work focuses on contemporary weddings and documentary photography shaped by fashion, portraiture and editorial sensibility.
Photography has been part of my practice from the beginning. My background in photographic design, graphic design, behavioural design and more than a decade in art direction for agencies such as Panama and Jung von Matt still shapes the way I work today. It brings structure, proportion, rhythm, light and atmosphere into the frame, alongside an awareness of how people move, respond and become present within it.
A wedding is never approached as pure reportage, nor as a sequence of staged scenes. What interests me is the space between intention and the unexpected, where images feel considered, but still alive.
Sometimes the image is found. Sometimes it is built. Often, it is both.
My way of working moves between observation and direction. Movement, light and distance may be guided when they help the image gain momentum. The aim is never to force a result, but to create the conditions for something unscripted to appear.
The focus is presence rather than performance. Gestures, pauses, shifts in body language and the quiet tension between control and chance. Documentary in instinct, editorial in form.
2nd Shooter &
Super 8 film, JOSIE
Josie joins selected weddings as a second photographer and Super 8 filmmaker, adding another perspective to the story of the day.
While Nicole leads the photography, Josie moves through everything happening around it: the nervous energy before the ceremony, your friends gathering outside, a hand resting on a shoulder, movement on the dance floor and the small scenes unfolding beyond the obvious moments.
Her Super 8 films are imperfect in the best possible way — grainy, tactile and alive. Rather than documenting every part of the day, she collects fragments: movement, light, laughter and atmosphere. The result feels less like a traditional wedding video and more like a memory you found years later.
Together, we create a fuller visual narrative without turning your wedding into a production.
our
services
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Wedding photography by Nieke as a lead photographer, with coverage shaped around your celebration. This can include getting ready, couple portraits, the ceremony, speeches and the party, alongside the spontaneous moments and time spent with your guests.
Planning begins with our first conversation. We talk about what matters to you, how your day might unfold and where photography fits naturally into it. Together, we consider timing, light and places for your portraits, whether at your venue or somewhere nearby that feels right for you. Thoughtful preparation gives us room to follow the day as it happens, with a little direction whenever it helps.
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Nieke and Josie photographing together, with a shared visual language and more room to follow what unfolds. Especially when preparations happen in different places or several moments overlap, two photographers allow more of your celebration to be captured.
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In around a minute and a half, movement, light, laughter and atmosphere come together to tell your day in another way. A fleeting glance becomes a moving moment, a few seconds hold a whole feeling. It’s a small film with its own rhythm, full of life and unmistakably yours.
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Your celebration can begin before the wedding day and continue beyond it. From a welcome dinner to a farewell brunch, we can photograph the time you spend together across several days, at home or further away.
WHEREVER YOU’RE GATHERING
Tell us what you’re planning and what you’d love to remember. We’ll put together a proposal with the photography, film and time that suit your celebration.