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Ceremonies, one at a time.
A long-running series of guides written for the family — what happens at each ceremony of a Hindu wedding day, who needs to be where, and how the photographer fits around it.
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Journal · field notes & stories
Notes, stories & the bits in between.
A working journal kept alongside the practice. Wedding stories, ceremony guides for the family, short essays on the work — and the personal half, the moors and the gardens.
New entries roughly every fortnight. Bilingual where the audience asks for it.
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I · This fortnight
Three pieces worth your time.
Updated 12 December 2024
A Mehndi morning in BL3.
A morning at the Patel family's, between cousins arriving and the first sit-down for henna. Four hours, three rooms, one camera.
Read the pieceMehndi — a guide for the family.
What happens on a Mehndi morning, who needs to be where, and how a photographer can sit alongside the family without getting in the henna.
Walking the moors before first light.
On the personal half of the practice. Why I leave the house at 5am, what I look for, and the cheap pair of boots I will not give up.
II · The archive
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The seven steps — photographing the Saptapadi.
The vows of a Gujarati wedding, told one step at a time. What each step means, where to stand, and how to keep out of the priest's line.
The Patel–Shah day, in twelve frames.
A long day told short. Twelve frames from a Hindu wedding that ran from Mandap to Vidaai, and what they are each doing for the family album.
A Saturday with Westhoughton RFC.
Three hours on the touchline at a wet October league fixture. Who I shoot for, who they sit with, and what the parents actually buy.
The Vidaai I almost didn’t photograph.
On the quietest ceremony of the day, the one where the camera should sometimes be lower than your eyeline.
Goalmouth — shooting the school cup final.
A note from the under-12s cup. Where to stand for the eight-year-old's try, and why I never sit with the parents.
Editing slow — thirty frames from three thousand.
The week after the wedding. How I cut a wedding gallery from three thousand frames down to the thirty that go on the wall.
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