NIKKI DASKALAKIS
A wedding photography house for people ready to be seen.
Serving DC, NYC, + your corner of the world.
NIKKI DASKALAKIS
A wedding photography house for people ready to be seen.
The best day? Let's try this instead:
Your wedding isn’t one-dimensional. It’s a living, breathing, ever-expanding celebration of connection, one of the most defining parts of the human experience. And you need to feel that connection with the photographer who captures it all, too.
Connecting with ME and MY work looks a little like this: You’re drawn to wedding photography that’s both editorial and documentary, both sartorially posed and emotively candid. You want an artist and a technician who shoots layered, skin-true film first, but uses digital, too, for those fast, can’t-miss moments. You’re looking for images that capture you and your people’s personalities, that make you belly laugh, that drop your jaw to the floor. You want photography (and a photographer) that has you figured out.
Give ME a press pass to your life, and consider it done—I’LL show you who you are.
camera
contax 645
lens
80mm
ISO
Box speed
aperture
2.0
shutter speed
1/125
Lighting
natural
film stock
kodak portra 400
The most dynamic day.
The best day? Let's try this instead: The Most Dynamic Day
Nikki Daskalakis Foreword
A wedding photographer for those who won’t be boxed in.
I’m here to see you—like, really see you. my approach is informed by my background in forensic social work and a deep fascination with what i find when i venture beyond the well-kept wall. It sounds like the real talk you’ve been craving. It feels like true connection. It looks like photography that doesn’t just capture flashes in time, but documents who you are without hesitation or apology.
spring/summer,
Autumn/Winter, 2024-2026
Tuscany, delaware, maryland, puglia, virginia, Washington, D.C.
For context
for chemistry
for curiosity
A sampling of work that puts Portfolio in perspective
WEDDING COLLECTION
wedding Collection
For context
for chemistry
for curiosity
A sampling of work that puts Portfolio in perspective
cin cin, nick & nick!
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warm woodlands
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scientists in the library
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puglia whirlwind
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The Polo Barn
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spring/summer,
Autumn/Winter, 2024-2026
Tuscany, delaware, maryland, puglia, virginia, Washington, D.C.
calm, cool, coastal
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lookbook
problematically perceptive
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As wedding photographers, our job is to notice. In many ways, the photos i take are little projections of how i see the world and how i see you—which is why no two photographers could ever capture a wedding the same way. In the moments we find and create, it comes down to the fingerprint of attention: what we were drawn to and what we felt too alive over not to press the shutter.
What ignites me, what makes me feel alive, is you, at ease and as you are. It’s why i press the shutter on two when we hit you with that one-two-three countdown (and switch up that number every time). i want the look you threw when no one was watching, before you overthought it. There’s so much truth and beauty just beyond the buttoned-up, and i’m here to break through to that uncontainable magic—then translate it through legacy-level art.
If you, too, are moved by the honest and unguarded, this is your wedding photography house.
