IN TRUTH, Beauty
When a bride and groom host a world-class destination wedding, they expect a lot from their photographers. The smartest among these happy couples, a dozen or so each year, hire world-class artists, such as the team of James x Schulze, a partnership between James Christianson and Otto Schulze, two longtime photographers, who joined forces four years ago after more than a decade in direct competition.
Their work blossomed as they quickly discovered the whole can be infinitely greater than the sum of its parts.
“We cannot make the work without the collaboration,” Christianson says. “Because of the freedom. If you were to watch us work, it really is a dance. Maybe I’m connecting with the client and shooting a portrait while Otto’s over there crafting something, shooting hands and shooting different angles and working on composition. And then I do that for five minutes, and he steps in, and he’s doing the portrait, and I’m running around shooting from far away, or whatever. It really is a constant dance, back and forth. It allows us to make different types of imagery that we would never
