Ben Chrisman & Erin Chrisman

BEN CHRISMAN
When Ben was a little kid, he wrote down in a book what he wanted to be when he grew up.
He borrowed his mom’s film camera. He photographed his family, his friends, the high-school kids for the yearbook. He studied photojournalism and worked for several newspapers in New Mexico, his home state. He traveled to Indonesia and Sri Lanka to photograph the devastation from the tsunami. He planned to go to Iraq to become a war photographer.
But then at 27, he luckily decided to photograph a few weddings in Santa Fe. Those few weddings lead him to start  traveling for weddings all over the world. In Mexico, he met a girl named Erin, who was also a photographer. They moved to San Francisco. T
hey got married in Las Vegas, then two weeks later they got married again in Campeche, Mexico. Mexico was the big party, with lots of photographers and a lot of former clients whom Ben and Erin have become close to.
Today, along with their three great friends, Dave, Aaron and Mauricio, they work really hard to give their couples photographs that transcend wedding photography. It’s exactly what Ben has always wanted. He’s a very lucky guy. And he’d still go to Iraq, but only if someone getting married there.
Ben and Erin live in the hills overlooking the beautiful San Francisco Bay.
ERIN CHRISMAN
Erin gravitated toward photography on a trip to Honduras. She was there working as a reporter, shooting some of her own photos and found herself drawn more to photographing the local villagers than interviewing them. She loves the connection that develops between photographer and subject, the simple satisfaction of beautiful light, the more complex sensation of seeing raw emotion unfold before her eyes - and blending it all together inside her camera.
She also loves a boy named Ben and she loves California. But, what she loves most of all is getting to see the world with Ben through the beautiful, one-of-a-kind family celebrations they are fortunate enough to be invited to. It’s an honor, she will always be in awe of. Erin and Ben live in the hills overlooking the beautiful San Francisco Bay.