“What I love most about [photography] is that it has the ability to bundle up what I can’t find the words for,” says Melbourne-based photographer, Jessica Tremp. Since emigrating from Switzerland in her teenage years, Tremp has found that living in Australia has given her more freedom to follow her passions. She feels as though photography has been her most consistent creative outlet, and works as a full-time wedding photographer, although this wasn’t her initial plan. “[Wedding photography] was something that gradually took hold, after more and more people asked me to shoot their weddings,” says Tremp.
Even though she hasn’t undertaken any formal training, she has been able to refine her style to become technically stronger. “I embrace all those ‘mistakes’ that convey a mood, be it grain, noise, blur, over or underexposing,” says Tremp. Tremp distinguishes her personal projects from her wedding photography through style. At a wedding, she enjoys being a ‘fly-on-the-wall’, employing a photojournalistic approach. Her wedding photography is more reactive, fast-paced and ‘instinctive’. In contrast, Tremp’s personal work takes longer, as she likes to toy with ideas, experiment with spontaneity and mull over the shot and composition. “With my personal work, themes seem to develop without my direct steering of them, but a touch of melancholy is mostly evident,” she says.
Tremp’s work has received international recognition, shown in exhibitions from New York and Paris in 2011, to Sydney and Melbourne in 2014. She has received numerous awards including a Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) ‘Gold’ in portraiture in 2011, as well as being an ACMP Projections finalist in 2010. Although navigating a balance of her professional work and personal passions, Tremp is excited to keep pursuing her love of photography. In early 2015, her work featured in Dear Sylvia, an exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney.
© Jessica Tremp
