Lovers Sessions
For couples who don't need a reason
Hamburg · Europe
You don't need an anniversary. You don't need an engagement announcement. You don't need to justify wanting photos of the two of you together.
Most couples who reach out start with an explanation. "It's not a big milestone or anything, but..." or "We just thought it might be nice to..."
Stop.
You can want this just because you want it. Because you're in love and you'd like to remember what that looked like right now. Because someday you'll be sixty and you'll want proof that you were once this version of yourselves.
That's reason enough.
What this is here
A Lovers Session is documentation of connection. The way you are together when no one's watching. The way you touch each other's face. The way you laugh at something only the two of you find funny. The small moments that make up a relationship but disappear if you don't catch them.
Not an engagement shoot with ring close-ups. Not a portrait session where you stand and smile at the camera. Not content for your Instagram announcement.
I'm not here to pose you into magazine-perfect compositions. I'm here to follow you. To notice the things you're too busy living to see. The way your hands find each other without looking. The way one of you pulls the other closer when the wind picks up.
This is for couples who want photos that feel like memory, not performance. Real moments, not recreated ones.
What we actually do
We usually start where you feel comfortable. Your apartment. A favorite café. The park you walk through on Sundays. Sometimes we stay in one place. Sometimes we walk. Sometimes we end up somewhere neither of us planned.
I don't arrive with a shot list. I arrive with time and attention. We talk. You move through your space the way you normally would. Make coffee. Sit on the couch. Go for a walk. Touch each other the way you do when you're alone.
The first ten minutes are always awkward. Then you forget I'm there. That's when the real photos happen.
You don't need to be good at this
Most people feel a bit ridiculous the first time a lens points at them. They don't know what to do with their hands. They go stiff. They're convinced they look weird.
I know. I've been in front of the camera with the love of my life, Jana. It feels unnatural at first.
Here's what helps: I'm not waiting for you to perform. I'm not looking for the perfect smile or the perfectly timed laugh. I'm just watching. And eventually, you stop thinking about the camera and start thinking about each other. That's all I need.
You don't need to be photogenic. You don't need to know how to pose. You just need to show up and be yourselves.
Give you space, then disappear
I don't direct the way most photographers do. I won't tell you to "put your hand here" or "look at each other and smile." That kind of direction creates photos that look like direction.
What I will do: suggest a starting point. "Go make coffee," or "Walk toward the water." Then I follow. I notice. I wait for the moments that matter.
I'm not a fly on the wall. You'll know I'm there. But I'm also not a stage director. I create space for real moments to happen. Then I capture them.
I don't do retouching beyond color and light. I don't remove wrinkles or change your body. You get honest photos of who you actually are. If that's not what you're looking for, I'm not the right photographer.
TIME AND PLACE
Most Lovers Sessions are 2-3 hours. That's enough time to get past the awkwardness and into the real moments without it feeling like a marathon.
We can shoot in Hamburg, where I'm based. We can shoot wherever you are in Europe if I'm traveling or if you want me to come to you. Your apartment. Your neighborhood. A city you're visiting together. The place matters less than the fact that you're comfortable there.
I work with natural light. That means we're shaped by weather and time of day. Early morning. Late afternoon. Overcast days. Rain if you're up for it. I don't believe in bad light. I believe in knowing what each light gives you.
What this is worth to you
For couples who want to be documented—not on a big day, just on a regular one. Before the elopement, after it, or years into it. No occasion needed.
€750. Flat.
2–3 hours. Hamburg or nearby. Full high-resolution gallery.
No tiered pricing. No "good version" vs. "basic version." You get everything that matters.
This isn't a quick shoot. It's enough time to move past awkward, find your rhythm, and forget the camera exists. We're not rushing, but we're also not spending all day. This is about focus, not exhaustion.
If that number doesn't work for you right now, that's okay. Come back when it does.
But if you've been looking at couple photographers and nothing felt right—if everything looked too posed, too Pinterest, too performed—this might be what you've been trying to find.
Where we could do this
Your apartment at 7am when the light comes through the kitchen window. Copenhagen if you're there. Paris if you're not. A walk through your neighborhood in Hamburg or Amsterdam or Berlin. The Elbstrand at sunset if you're in the north. Your hometown. My city. Anywhere you want to be together.
The location isn't the point. You are. But some places give us better light, more space, more quiet. I'll help you figure out what makes sense.
After searching for hours for a photographer who could deliver cinematic shots and was comfortable photographing two Black gay men, finding Björn's portfolio felt like hitting the jackpot. He absolutely exceeded expectations.
Mark + Franck
