A wedding, sports and family photographer based in Bolton, working across the BL postcodes and the wider Greater Manchester area. I photograph in English and Gujarati. The practice is small on purpose.
I grew up in Bolton — Hindu side of the family on one shoulder, the rugby ground at Westhoughton on the other. My first camera was a hand-me-down Pentax from my dad, used mostly to photograph my cousins at our annual Diwali. I have been pointing one at the people I love ever since.
I started taking on weddings in 2018, mostly because friends of friends asked, and the asking kept going. The first Hindu wedding I covered properly was a cousin's in 2019 — the Mehndi at home, the Garba at the community hall, the Mandap at the same school assembly room I had sat my GCSEs in. I knew the room. I knew the family. I knew the pandit. The photographs were better for it.
That has stayed the shape of it. Most of my work is for people whose family I know, or for clubs whose ground I walk past on a Wednesday. The sport followed naturally — Westhoughton Lions needed match-day photographs, my cousin played for the junior side, and a season turned into five.
Today, the practice splits roughly evenly between Hindu weddings, sports days, and the quiet family afternoons in between. I keep it small so I can keep it personal. Every enquiry is read and answered by me. Every wedding is photographed by me. Every frame is edited in this same room.
"My job on the day is to be near, not noticed. The best frame is almost always the one no-one heard me take."— Deepisha
The work sits in the moment. I shoot close to the people in the room — not pressed up against them, but inside the gathering rather than across it. I avoid flash where natural light will hold; I avoid posed setups when something quieter is already happening.
Slow with the light means I will wait for it. A Saptapadi photographed at the wrong moment is a photograph of a man and a woman walking; photographed at the right moment, it is a photograph of a vow. The difference is almost always thirty seconds and one extra breath.
I edit honestly. The skin tone in the photograph is the skin tone that was in the room. The light has the warmth or coolness it actually had. I do not stretch a sunset I did not see and I do not import one I was not at. What you book is what you get.
English is the working language of every enquiry, every contract, and every gallery delivery — unless you would rather it weren't. Form copy, replies, and the agreement at booking are written plainly, in British English.
ગુજરાતી પરિવારોના લગ્નમાં હું ગુજરાતીમાં વાત કરી શકું છું — મહેંદીની સવારથી વિદાય સુધી. દાદી, પંડિતજી, કે કાકા સાથે વાત કરવી હોય તો અંગ્રેજીના વાટ-ઘાટ વગર, ગુજરાતીમાં જ. તમે ફોર્મ ગુજરાતીમાં ભરી શકો, હું ગુજરાતીમાં જવાબ આપીશ.
Whichever language you prefer is the one we use — the day belongs to both.
A small mix — weddings, sport, the quiet bits in between. Full galleries by genre on the service pages.
A wedding, a season, an afternoon at home with the new baby — whatever it is, send a sentence. I read every enquiry myself and reply within two working days.