A couple in soft, cinematic light — cinematic wedding and couples photography by Volkanova.photo in Sacramento and the Bay Area

Couples cinematic photographer

Your love story,
told like a film

Unposed, cinematic photographs for couples who feel out loud

Based in sacramento | bay area

Cinematic wedding and couples photograph by Volkanova.photo, Sacramento and Bay Area

Meet Viktoriia, your photographer

Nothing posed,
just remembered

Unposed and cinematic, based in Sacramento

I'm Viktoriia. I photograph couples the way a good film remembers its favorite scene: real light, real laughter, and the small moments you didn't notice were happening.

No stiff poses, no performing for the camera. We go somewhere beautiful, you two stay you, and I catch what's already there.

More about the artist

What I photograph

Made for
the two of you

I. Weddings

View the collection II. Elopements

View the collection III. Engagements

View the collection

See the experience & pricing

V The Experience

An easy, unhurried shoot and photographs that feel like scenes from a film about the two of you.

How it works

The frames I love most are the ones nobody planned: a look, a laugh, a hand reaching for a hand.

Warm light, soft grain and real feeling. Photographs that age like memories

Some feelings were written down long before us, and they still fit…

Borrowed words, kept warm between the pages…

On love, in words far older than us

Love letters

V

"I almost wish we were butterflies and lived but three summer days. Three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."

John Keats, from a letter, 1819

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. I have loved none but you."

Jane Austen, Persuasion

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43

What I chase