Together, our primary influences stem from our training with Pulitzer-winning photojournalists, a healthy dose of human interface design, and of course interior design with an emphasis on feng shui. These help us not only get the shot at just the right moment, but doing so with an eye for how people will actually see, play, and interact with an image in their home.
Our interest in photography — like many photographers — started as kids. Bill shot for the school paper and Anne managed art and layout for her school yearbook. Later, Anne would focus on street scenes, people, and flowers, while Bill went for nature & landscapes. We each separately honed our skills until we married in 2001, when we kicked off our photography career.
When we first dated, Anne teased Bill about not having any people in any of his nature photos, but it didn’t take him long to start seeing the magic in capturing the “decisive moment”. With that, and Anne’s lifelong interest in love and weddings, together we opened Holland Photo Arts. She coined our slogan Lose yourself…We’ll find you and we endeavored to live by it.
Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, we photographed weddings from the Carolinas to upstate New York. It was fantastic work and we truly loved not just documenting salient moments, but also the often deep friendships with many of the 400 couples whose nuptials we were honored to document. We were also lucky enough to have been recognized with various awards from Photo District News magazine, Washingtonian magazine, WPJA, and ISPWP (the latter two are professional organizations).
We hung up our wedding hats in 2016 after Bill returned to corporate life as a UX designer and Anne continued her art with professional baking and cookie decorating (IG: eatlovecookies). And we’re back now, full-time, as photographers traveling with our two cats around the United States in our Airstream. Haven’t perused them yet? A great starting point is A&B’s Favorites.
As we continue adding to our professional body of work here, we’re kicking off a new project about relationships called Our Loves Legacy. It is of course, a natural extension of our past wedding work and we look forward to launching with the first interviews in 2026!
About Anne
When I was twelve, my Dad borrowed a camera from work and put it in my hands. I promptly made “dew” (i.e., drops of water) for the rose petals in our front yard, and after I blew through that roll of film, dad got it developed and printed. I was hooked! Today I feel quite lucky to make this passion our full-time career, buoyed by years of experimentation and training alongside some of the best photojournalists in the world (including my darling husband!).
Over the years, I’ve served as an instructor for the Foundation Workshops, a photo contest judge for ISPWP, and gave back to the community of photographers who so nurtured us in small but meaningful ways. One does not shoot 400 weddings without gathering a cornucopia of hard-earned lessons.
In my current nature work, I combine my background in interior design and Feng Shui, showcasing a developed sense of elemental composition along with a fascination for beautiful ruins: The juxtaposition of fresh and new with old and overlooked. It’s why I’ve gravitated toward the sometimes overlooked aspects of life, often finding enchantment, even if this time I allow Mother Nature to graciously add the “dew”. Rounding out Bill’s technical tendencies, I’m happy serving as our firm’s art director and resident innovator.
Every day I’m excited to continue finding myself wherever our Airstream takes Bill and I, as well as building our long time coming passion project Our Loves Legacy. You can take the wedding out of the girl, but you can’t take the love out of love.
About Bill
Growing up on a barely self-sustaining small family farm, within a week of graduating high school I packed my bags. Eager to see more than life just in Missouri, I signed up to serve in the U.S. Navy, where I spent the next twelve years operating nuclear reactor plants onboard aircraft carriers. Of course, I brought my 35mm Pentax SLR to each port of call, slowly but surely honing my craft along the way.
I was a geek through and through, and got into web design back in the early 90s. It was a fun way to share my favorite photos alongside my favorite mountain biking trails. Geekdom led to a “real job” building more web sites, so obviously building our own first one in 2002 for Holland Photo Arts was not a big leap.
Over the years I’ve been honored to serve as a photo contest judge for ISPWP; speak at a wedding photography conference; and lead and help teach the Foundation Workshops, an intensive, multi-day immersive course for teaching photojournalism to wedding photographers.
Always with the engineering-mindset, as the technician I am the yang to Anne’s yin. She shows me softness and light in ways I’d have not imagined on my own, and am grateful we are on the same team.