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.
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.
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.
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.
- Chicago Style Weddings
- The Knot
- 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.