Alice Vicente

By the Editorial Staff

My curiosity about life, along with an attentiveness to subtle, often overlooked details, guides the way I observe, remain open, and trust intuition.

Alice Vicente

For Alice Vicente, photography grows out of the way she experiences the world, guided by curiosity, intuition, and an acute awareness of details that often pass unnoticed. With a foundation in fine art, her work carries a quiet cinematic quality, shaped by sensitivity to light, landscape, and emotional nuance. Moving fluidly across destinations, cultures, and atmospheres, she crafts visual narratives that feel intimate, lived-in, and profoundly human. Her images allow couples not only to remember what happened, but to recognise the subtle, irreplaceable moments that defined their day, often revealed only when seen through her lens. In this conversation, we explore the intuition, artistry, and storytelling that form the core of Alice Vicente’s photographic practice.

Alice Vicente’s way of seeing is inseparable from her background in painting, drawing, and ceramics. These disciplines trained her eye not to seek spectacle, but to observe quietly, to become attuned to emotion, rhythm, and the smallest details that often escape notice. For her, art is not about mastery of technique alone, but about learning how to truly observe. She believes that everyone possesses the ability to draw or create; what most lack is not skill, but attentiveness.

This sensitivity shapes the way she approaches wedding photography today. Rather than imposing structure, she listens, to spaces, to light, to emotional undercurrents. Her images emerge from presence rather than control.

Working across destinations, from Portugal and St. Tropez to San Francisco and Switzerland, has further expanded her visual language. Each new place offers its own atmosphere, architectural rhythm, cultural codes, and quality of light. Alice approaches every destination as a layered narrative. Architecture, landscape, local texture, and human interaction are not backdrops, but active elements within the story. A wedding, in her view, is never isolated from its environment; it is shaped by it. This awareness allows her to build narratives that feel cohesive, dynamic, and deeply rooted in place.

There is a cinematic stillness that runs through her work, as though each image belongs to a larger, unfolding film. This quality is not manufactured. It grows out of curiosity and intuition, an openness to the unnoticed. Alice often speaks about her fascination with the smallest details, moments others might overlook entirely. Inspiration, for her, is not something to be chased, but something encountered through attentiveness. By staying curious and emotionally present, she allows real life to reveal itself with quiet poetry.

Preparation plays a key role in sustaining this balance between freedom and intention. Before each wedding, Alice defines specific creative goals and builds a mental framework that allows her to explore confidently while still delivering timeless imagery. This preparation is not restrictive; it creates space. By entering the day with clarity, she frees herself to remain present, responsive, and open to what unfolds naturally.

She believes that art lives in the in-between moments, the fleeting, irrational instances that arise as the day moves at its own pace. These moments cannot be staged or repeated. They surface quickly, often without warning, and disappear just as fast. Capturing them requires anticipation, observation, and complete presence.

Each wedding, she notes, carries its own internal logic and emotional landscape. No two days unfold the same way. Accompanying a couple and their families through an entire day is both demanding and profoundly rewarding. By the end, knowing she has witnessed and preserved these moments in a way that will resonate deeply leaves her inspired and fulfilled.

Despite the composed nature of her imagery, Alice’s approach remains deeply human. She guides couples gently, without pulling them out of the moment. Silence, patience, and respect for emotional space allow people to remain grounded and present. When guidance is needed, it comes softly, one or two subtle cues offered only when the couple feels ready. Understanding the vulnerability of being photographed, she prioritizes reassurance and trust. Each couple’s comfort level determines how involved she becomes, ensuring that the resulting images feel natural rather than performed.

Ultimately, Alice hopes her photographs become more than records of events. She wants them to stand as emotional documents, images that hold not only what happened, but how it felt.

Years later, she hopes couples and their loved ones will return to these photographs as cherished fragments of memory, reliving joy, intimacy, and love with the same intensity as the day itself.

This article is an original editorial analysis produced by [DIBA magazine]. 

Research and references are used for contextual accuracy.