Nathanaël Charpentier
Portrait & wedding photographer · Loire Valley, France
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Nathanaël Charpentier photographs fine-art portraits and weddings the way a musician plays a jazz set: present enough to hold everything together, quiet enough to be forgotten. Based in Gien, between the Sologne and the châteaux of the Loire, an hour and a half from Paris, and wherever he is invited.
PortraitsCome and find a face your family has always known, and that you have never seen.
WeddingsEntrust a day that will have no second take.Their words
“Nath is exceptionally professional, and his fantastic attitude creates a wonderful atmosphere […] the photos he produces are of remarkable quality.”
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Who is Nathanaël Charpentier?
A portrait photographer, Portraitiste de France 2021, co-founder of Studio NathSam in Gien, France, creator of the registered Portrait: Art & Âme approach and author of the talk “La Pudeur de l’Intrus”, on the photographer’s place inside other people’s intimacy. Co-founder and president of Collectif Carmin, the first French collective of birth photographers. A musician: saxophonist, guitarist, songwriter. Nearly twenty years in the craft, from wedding reportage to introspective portraiture.
Where does Nathanaël Charpentier work?
Based in Gien, between the Sologne and the châteaux of the Loire, an hour and a half from Paris. He photographs weddings and portraits in the Loire Valley, Paris and Normandy, and abroad: Corsica, Andalusia, Brussels, Marrakech, Mauritius and the Seychelles. Seven countries so far, and wherever he is invited.
What do clients say about Nathanaël Charpentier?
Nathanaël Charpentier is rated 4.8/5 on Google (more than 40 reviews). Clients most often mention his discretion during a wedding, his way of putting at ease those who dislike being photographed, and how he adapts his work to each couple. Studio NathSam, the house he co-founded in Gien, is rated 5.0/5 (more than 160 reviews).
In the age of AI, why hire a photographer for a portrait?
A generated image shows a possible face. A portrait that was lived keeps the trace of a real moment: exactly what no AI will produce. Nine people in ten want to know whether an image was generated by AI (Getty Images study). What gives a photograph its value is changing: no longer its perfection, but the certainty that it could not have been manufactured.