The photographer · Chicago & Tampa Bay

A decade behind the camera. Twenty weddings a year.

Krystian Swierk is the photographer behind You Will Never Forget It. He also runs Fountains of Rome, a Chicago wedding, editorial and lifestyle photography brand, where the same standard has run across a decade of work from Chicago's lakefront to the Riviera Maya.

The photographer directing a sitting at the Portrait Station under a softbox, guests watching from the reception
LIVE DIRECTION · SOFTBOX · GUESTS WATCHING
Why it matters who is holding the camera

Two minutes only works if someone knows what to do with them.

A guest steps off the floor and gets about ninety seconds. In that time somebody has to read their face, move a shoulder, fix the light for that specific person, and take the frame before the moment goes. That is not a setting. It is a decade of doing it under pressure, in rooms that were never designed for it.

Where the work has been

Chicago's lakefront to the Riviera Maya.

  • Chicago's lakefront and museum halls
  • Milwaukee
  • Florida's coasts
  • the Riviera Maya

Weddings, editorial and lifestyle work, shot under the Fountains of Rome name. The city changes. The standard does not.

The standard

Twenty weddings a year, never two in one weekend.

Once a date is taken, that weekend belongs to it. It is the reason a booking can be promised a photographer who is actually rested, and the reason the calendar fills early rather than deep.

Roots are Polish, and at home in Chicago's Polish community, which is why so many of these nights move between two sets of traditions without anyone having to explain them first.

Featured in
  • Chicago Style Weddings
  • The Knot
The wider body of work

Fountains of Rome →

Every booking includes
  • A 4x6 print handed to each guest on the night
  • The full edited gallery within two weeks

Your date only happens once.

Tell us the date and the room. We will say plainly what fits it, and what does not.