Meet Sarah Paolucci
by Val on Feb.18, 2010, under General
I tend to avoid blogging about topics not directly related to wedding photography. But this one is well worth reading – especially for those of you looking for a creative professional to give your company image a strong visual presence.
I met Sarah last fall at one of the networking groups I was considering joining. Sarah owns Paolucci Illustration and Design. She is “a creator of illusions, characters, catalogs, logos and lifelike drawings”, as she calls herself. We hit it off right away – she is one of those people with such a warm personality you just can’t pass by. A few weeks later we were already working on projects for each other.
I needed somebody to help me out with one of the brochures I was planning on having for the 2009-10 engagement season. This wasn’t an easy one to do, let me tell you. I was envisioning a piece unlike any other wedding photographer’s brochure – in terms of design, shape, typography, you name it. Quite honestly, I was concerned that no one I knew back then could easily handle something like this. It was quirky, hard to produce; having it on paper involved quite a bit of explanation and tricky negotiations with the printer.
But wait until I saw the first draft of the design. Sarah nailed the main concept so brilliantly, elegantly and effortlessly… it took my breath away! In addition, she saved me so much effort finding a decent local printer to convert these ideas into a materialized product. Later on, somewhere after the 1500th revision (yeah, that’s me) I thought she was going to show up in front of my door with a gun in her hand – but she was still the same Sarah I knew – radiant, cheerful, open to suggestions, always coming up with a fantastic new idea, so so easy to work with. What can I say…
I’ve had the opportunity to meet all kinds of people through the years. But one rarely has the chance to work with someone as talented as Sarah Paolucci. The following shots were snapped at my place one cold February afternoon. In them you can recognize the true artist I am talking about – or so I hope. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Sarah Paolucci.
