I have attended many weddings in the last few years but this one was something special. Not a royal palace Indian wedding in Rajasthan or a destination wedding on a beach in Goa, but still incredible. It is not every day that we have a wedding at home, and this one was actually on our [...]
Like all good young ‘professional’ photographers, I was raised to mock wedding photography and all that it represented and never even thought that I would do it. “Wedding photographer” always seemed to be a bit uncool, to put it lightly. No one thinks twice if you say that you’re a commercial photographer, a photojournalist, or [...]
What is a Syrian Christian wedding in Kerala, and why is it unique? A few months ago I photographed a wedding in south India and wrote a post about it, explaining who the Kerala Christians are, and a bit about the wedding traditions of this culture. Mathew and Shilpa, who got married in Trivandrum a [...]
Day-time weddings always make me think of weddings in the US or Europe. So different then such wedding In delhi. People come to church at noon, attend the wedding, and then go for a nice afternoon reception. We’ve all seen the pictures. In India it is so often the complete opposite. So many weddings often [...]
Hijras are members of what is usually considered in India as ‘the third sex’ – neither man nor women. The hijras usually show up at weddings and at the birth of male babies, to perform religious ceremonies intended to bring good luck and fertility. These ‘ceremonies’ involve music, singing, and sexually suggestive dancing, and although [...]
I documented a beautiful wedding at the Imperial Hotel in Delhi this weekend, but the couple, for their own good reasons, preferred not to share the actual wedding pictures on the net, and I respect their request. This can give me the opportunity to focus on the details rather then the bigger picture, and a [...]
Taking pictures at a Muslim wedding could be a tricky thing. Not like the traditional Hindu weddings that could take hours, the Muslim wedding itself takes only a minute as the couple sign the Nikahnama separately, and that’s it! By the time I finished photographing the bride, the bridegroom had already singed the Nikahnama in [...]
Of all the weddings I have photographed in India until now, it seems that the Bengali wedding is the most complex and diverse in terms of the enormous variety of customs and traditions. According to a fine lady I met at Maxima’s and Abhijit’s traditional Bengali wedding, no Bengali wedding can take place without the [...]
Kerala, God’s own country, is a favorite destination for a beach wedding, but a traditional Kerala wedding of the Syrian Christian church is something very different than what most people that come to Kerala had ever seen. Varshini and Alex, or as everyone calls him; Mithun, had a Syrian Christian wedding in Coimbatore, not far [...]
A south Indian wedding at the holy city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, is indeed a unique experience. Madurai is the home of the historic Hindu temple Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple or Meenakshi Amman Temple. I am not really a ‘temple’ person, but I must admit that this temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva (in the form of Sundareswarar or Beautiful Lord) and his consort, Goddess Parvati (in the form of Meenakshi) is [...]
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