ABOUT ME

WHO AM I ?

Hello visitors of my website !
My name is Gwladys Auzanneau. I am from the island of Ré where I grew up, which is near La Rochelle. I have left my home young and I’ve lived in several places in France and abroad, which explains the great diversity of my photos on my site.
Passionate about photography since 2010, I created my own company in 2012 in order to make portraits and wedding photography, as well as real estate photoshoots.
I went back to my original land in 2015, so then I decided to restart my activity of both portraits, wedding and corporate pictures.

Photo : Samuel L. Gelbart photos

MY BEGINNINGS IN PHOTOGRAPHY

My first job as a photographer

Year 2010

In summer 2010, whereas I’m looking for a summer job at Cannes, we propose to make photographs of family on the beach. The principle is simple: I take a picture of them, I give them a business card and the clients see the photos at the shop. If they like the photos, they can buy. This what we call photofilming or filming.
So I start my season, it was the first time that had a DSLR camera in the hands. Of course I had a lot to learn: framing, posing, make some basic settings.
I spent hours after my work to look at the pictures of other photographers from the shop and ask how they made such good photos.

The older photographers were very patient with me, and have explained to me the basics and tricks of the trade. And as the season finished I ended up passionate about this new discipline that I was beginning to learn everything about. I had then a head full of memories, and a new passion in my heart.

Year 2011

Within continuing my studies, I pursued photography the next year. Always in the field of photofilming, but this time for a big photography company engaged in attraction park and the holiday club villages. I spent summer working at Antibes Marineland Park to photograph the families coming to admire all the marine animals.

By an intense warmth ( on the French riviera, the temperature was around 98,6° F) and under the burning sun, I had to take as much families as possible on pictures.
I keep from this particular period intense, lasting memories, wonderful, extremely hard, tears, laughter, the euphoria to work every day in a unique environment, surrounded by wonderful animals and a great team. I loved this job, and I’d seen myself stay and work all year round in this park.

Photo : struharka photography

Digipix' team photographers, summer 2012

Année 2012

The next spring, I repeated the experience at Digipix’s company, but I will not finish the summer with them. I needed to get back to where I had started to learn from my first mentors, with the idea of starting my work as an independent photographer.

So, I went back to take pictures on the beaches of Cannes at the same place where my passion for photography was born. This time the experience was much less conclusive than two years ago. On background of conflict in relation to the right to work, which was gleefully scorned by our employers, some photographers and vendors, including me, decided to leave the team.
Tired of working for hours to win a misery, I made the decision this summer to create my own photography business. At least, if I had to work a lot without counting hours, I’ll do it for me, and will be alone to make decisions.

Photo : Marion Villers

Gwladys Auzanneau on the beaches of Cannes

My working outfit

THE BIRTH OF MY COMPANY

I created my own company of photography in summer 2012, in the purpose of working in this specialty in September, and at the same time as I started a course in real estate. Everything came at the same time : moving to Biarritz, new studies, a new career.

At the beginning I did mostly sessions in collaboration with models found on the Internet that were in exchange of the clichés of the shooting. It allowed me to practice and learn about how to take a little more time during the shooting, compared to what i used to do before. I had to learn how to make quality craftsmanship, and to create my own vision of photography, as well as finding my style.

Then I started to do paid sessions, whether family photoshoot or wedding reports, or even fashion pictures like I did with one of the candidates for the election of Miss Curvy of Aquitaine (a curvy female beauty contest).

Then I travelled abroad for some time, before returning to install myself in the area where I grew up, in Charente-Maritime, where I now pactice my job as a portrait photographer.

MY COMPANY TODAY

Since I came back to live on Ré island, many things have changed. When I had mostly a clientele of individuals, for portraits or weddings; I started to have a lot of requests for business photography and real estate photography.
I also started to make food photography for restaurants, and packshot of products, and started to develop more and more the corporate photography.

At the same time I continued to make wedding photos, which is my first passion, the part of my work that awake the most passionate part of me. Meeting the brides and the grooms who wants to engage one another is a continual source of pleasure, and that is what makes me move forward in life.

Other developments are anticipated in the following months and years, so to follow my news I invite you to check out my Facebook page, subscribe to my YouTube channel, visit my blog or even follow me on Instagram.