Adam Lankamer

Photographer, La Herradura.

Twenty-seven years of language, and a camera

I spent most of my working life as a translator, an odd apprenticeship for photography and a surprisingly good one. Both jobs are mostly listening — to what someone wants, said and unsaid — and both are about carrying it across without breaking it.

I live in La Herradura and I photograph weddings, couples, families and portraits along this coast and across Andalusia — in English, French, Polish and Russian.

Why I photograph weddings

Because I got married on this coast, at sunset on Cerro Gordo, with our friends and family standing around us — one of the most immediate hours of my life. I know what that day asks of you. Photographs are the only part of it you keep using afterwards, so they should look the way you want to remember it.

Languages

I speak Polish, English, French and Russian, so a wedding, a session or a first conversation about what you want can happen in any of them.

I am learning Spanish, so that I can work more closely with couples, venues and local businesses here in Andalusia.