Today we’d like to introduce you to Cori Patelski.
Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours?
Photography has always been a huge part of my life. I can remember my dad always brought his camera on any vacations, family trips & holidays, showing me negatives & old photo albums of all of his film work from his world travels and teaching me the basics of how to use a camera.
In high school, I was the girl who always had a Canon point and shoot camera on me at all times, documenting all my fun and crazy adventures with my friends, then going back home and over saturating & over editing every single photo with so much joy! My Junior year, I took the first chance I could at taking a black & white film class and fell in love with every aspect of photography. I had never been so interested in learning a subject before. I loved how intentional and hands-on shooting in film was. You are truly in control of the image from start to finish in such a time consuming wholeheartedly way. I learned so much really think this is where my passion for photography actually began to form.
I feel like before learning about film and immersing myself photography, I never really knew what my passion was. I mean I had hobbies of course, and things I liked to do, but never felt so connected to something as I did with photography. I never felt like I was able to express myself creatively growing up. I was (and still am) absolutely terrible at drawing/painting, so this felt like a way I was truly able to express my creative side in a way that made so much sense to me.
After taking a couple more film classes in college, I kind of put photography on the back burner as a hobby and went about my life as a college student does. After graduating college and five years in a job field I realized I did not want to stay in forever, I decided to make the jump back into photography and start shooting again!
This time was different though. After typically only shooting landscapes, adventures, friends and my boyfriend surfing on the weekends, I realized shooting people/couples in love was what really fueled my fire. I was gifted a new DLSR for Christmas and immediately forced all my couple/married friends to model for me and realized THIS was what I was meant to do! Fast forward one year to working my butt off, creating a business, and putting myself, my work and whole heart out there for the world to see, here I am! I am now proud to say I am a Couples/Elopement/Wedding Photographer for the adventurous, fun-loving souls! This is truly what I love to do and feel so lucky I get to capture people’s love stories for them.
Please tell us about your art.
I LOVE capturing people’s love stories. And I love to do this in a way that is authentic, fun and natural for each couple. My goal each session or wedding is to capture your genuine love and interactions between each other. I would rather capture your loudest belly laugh, hair flying crazily in the wind, splashing through the ocean, or stomping through the mud together than a perfectly posed, stiff photo. I love keeping it fun and adventurous while at the same time capturing who you two are together. I thrive on capturing movement and authentic moments in my work and feel that is what really brings my photos to life and why people connect with my work!
As an artist, how do you define success and what quality or characteristic do you feel is essential to success as an artist?
Success to me is being able to connect with my clients in a way that allows me to truly portray and capture their love for each other as they see it. Or maybe they haven’t ever tangibly seen their love, and are now able to. Being able to give that gift to them is what makes me fall more and more in love with photography every day. When a couple gets their photos back from me, and they let me know how much they love their images and that I truly captured their fun and loving sides, that to me is what keeps me going and how I would define my success.
How or where can people see your work? How can people support your work?
Website: www.coritaylor.com
Instagram: @coritaylorphoto
Contact Info:
- Website: www.coritaylor.com
- Email: coritaylorphoto@gmail.com
- Instagram: @coritaylorphoto
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/coritaylorphoto/
Image Credit:
Cori Taylor Photography
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