Hi, I am céline kopp

Before weddings, there were volcanoes.

But photography was already there.

I originally trained as a geographer and lived in Peru, where I worked on volcanic risk and conducted field research in close contact with landscapes and the communities living within them.

I carried a small compact camera everywhere with me. Nothing precious or sophisticated, just something discreet enough to document what I was seeing without attracting too much attention.

Photography was already a way of witnessing.

But scientific documentaries taught me something else: how to find and tell a story within chaos.

During an eruption, everything is happening at once. The landscape is changing, people are reacting, information is unfolding in real time and you have to observe, anticipate and understand what matters while everything around you is moving.

I learned to look beyond the obvious image and build a narrative from fragments.

Years later, I realise how much of that instinct still lives in the way I photograph.

A wedding is, of course, an entirely different kind of story. But once again, life is happening everywhere at once. A glance across the room, a hand reaching for another, someone laughing in the background, a quiet moment in the middle of the celebration.

You cannot control all of it.

You have to see it.

And know which fragments will tell the story.