Hey and welcome!
My name is Aleksandra Geibel and I photograph people in love. Below I would like to open a curtain and welcome you to my crazy ride in this world 🙂
10 years ago I wanted to become a President of Mother Russia
For 8 years I photograph people although I have a degree in political science and 10 years ago I wanted to save the world and to become a President of Mother Russia. Then after working in Administration of St. Petersburg I saw that alone you can't change the system and I decided to make the world a better place through art. 10 years ago I was wearing a suit every day, had very long hair and always put too much make up on my face. I loved leopard print and was looking veeeery Russian 🙂 Now I have short hair, work from home in my pijama and sometimes brush my teeth only in the evening. Love black clothes and often people think that I am from Germany or Skandinavia (obviously before I open my mouth and my Eastern European accent comes through)
Am I happier now? 100%!!! I do what I love and when I photograph weddings I am the happiest person alive!
I am a real junkie looking for a new portion of a drug!
I am a real junkie looking for a new portion of drug. My drug is my work. I am so addicted to the feeling of adrenalin that kicks in when I am taking pictures. I am so addicted to an incredible feeling of excitement that I have when I am done with the photoshoot. I am so addicted to the shakes in my body which I get every time when I photograph weddings. I am a real junkie looking for a new dose of drugs. And when I get it, I want more and more and more. I simply can not stop. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing to be so much addicted to something that you do.
But I can tell you one thing. Pretty often I get frustrated and depressed and don't want to leave my bed, because things in my business don't go as planned. Being a solo entrepreneur feels pretty overwhelming in times. But my addiction keeps me going. I know that if I won't leave my bed today, then I might never get a new portion of my drug. And this thought alone is very depressing. Because a real junkie can not survive without his drug.
He asked me to marry him just after two months being together
Besides being a junkie and almost a President of Mother Russia, I am a happy wife of my best friend. We started living together just after one week knowing each other. I came with him to Germany from Amsterdam just after one month knowing him. He asked me to marry him just after two months being together. Although we are together for three years, we have a 9 years old incredibly spoiled child who weights 2,5 kg and who's name is Wolfgang (although he is actually a girl, but it is a long story))).
The only guest at my wedding was my dog and Jack Daniels
You would surprised to know that I don't have any professional photos of my wedding day! I photographed more than a 100 weddings already, but I didn't have a photographer at my own wedding. Actually I even didn't have a white dress. My dress was a very normal black dress and my husband wore sport shoes and jeans.
We didn't even have our rings! LOL! Because we ordered them on the internet and they didnt arrive on time. We didn't have any guests on our wedding. The only guest was our dog and Jack Daniels. We didn't have a wedding celebration. We didn't have a honeymoon.
And you know what! Although according to the standards of the wedding industry my wedding sucked big time, but it couldn't me any better for US!
Prior to the wedding I didn't have any fancy proposal with the candles and roses. My husband simply asked me one day while driving a car if I want to have a German nationality (he is German) or do I want to have a Dutch Nationality (I used to live in Amsterdam before and could have my Dutch citizenship in a few months). I thought for a few seconds and decided that I like Germany more.
That was it!
No champaign and no engagement ring. And it was perfect for ME! Do I get jealous when I photograph beautiful destination weddings? Not at all! I am very happy for my couples, because they do what they want. And I did what I wanted.
Society tells you to have a perfect wedding. Bullshit! Just DO YOU and do what feels RIGHT to YOU! If you want to get married in your pyjama, DO IT! If you want to get married in New Zealand on the beach, DO IT! JUST BE YOU! Your wedding has to be perfect for YOU and not for the others!
I was working with the escort agencies
I am a full time wedding photographer since three years.
Before I have tried all the genres of photography that you can possible imagine. I was working as a fashion photographer with the zero size models. I was working with the escort agencies in Amsterdam and photographing girls with and without clothes. I was photographing DJ's and events. I had my photo studio in the centre of Amsterdam and had many portrait, family, kids, etc photoshoots in there.
I was a fine art photographer and had exhibitions all over the world (you can see some of my old work as a fine art photographer here https://alexamoonart.com/
After trying it all I realized that wedding photography is the most fulfilling and fun genre of photography for me. Wedding photography is a combination of all genres of photography. It is an event, portrait, family, fine art, fashion and creative photography in one place. It is super challenging and stressful, but I love it and can't get enough of it!
Why I do what I do
- I do it for the moments, when my clients cry from joy when they see their photos.
- I do it for the moments, when I seat in the car after the wedding and I can't stop smiling because the joy overfills me.
- I do it, because it is the best thing in the world to photograph people in love.
- I do it for my clients, because I want to make them as happy as possible with their photos. Even if it means that I am going to get a few scratches from climbing a tree or will get dirty.
- I do it for myself, because I simply can not imagine doing anything else in life.