The work

Five ways of seeing

Every wedding has its own light and its own register. These five albums are the range I bring to a day. Below them sit nine complete weddings, so you can see whole days rather than only the frames that flatter me.

I, Editorial

Clean lines. Intentional light.

Graphic compositions, precise framing, a directorial eye. These images are built rather than found, for couples who want the day to read like a fashion story.

✦

Cover

Click arrows to turn pages

A Wedding Collection

Editorial

Arman Arai · Canada

Tap sides to turn · swipe to navigate

II, Film Inspired

Warm grain. Honest colour.

Processed to hold on to what analogue does well: the softness, the warmth, highlights that roll off instead of clipping. This is the work couples come back to in twenty years.

✦

Cover

Click arrows to turn pages

Analogue Aesthetic

Film Inspired

Arman Arai · Canada

Tap sides to turn · swipe to navigate

III, 1980s Film

Fade. Grain. Memory.

Expired stock palettes and the nostalgic warmth of Super 8 and Kodachrome. These photographs look like they were found in a shoebox, in the best possible way.

✦

Cover

Click arrows to turn pages

Expired Stock

1980s Film

Arman Arai · Canada

Tap sides to turn · swipe to navigate

IV, Dreamy Fine Art

Soft light. Flowers. Air.

Veils held into the sun, blossom thrown out of focus across the lens, and portraits made slowly. The most deliberately composed work I do, and the album couples choose when they want the day to look like a painting rather than a report.

✦

Cover

Click arrows to turn pages

A Floral Editorial

Dreamy Fine Art

Arman Arai · Canada

Tap sides to turn · swipe to navigate

V, Documentary

Real moments. Real people.

Unposed and unmanaged. The kind of coverage that gives you back the parts of the day you were too present to notice while they were happening.

✦

Candid Coverage

Documentary

Arman Arai · Canada

Cover

Click arrows to turn pages

The albums

Whole days

Four weddings shown in full, in the order they happened. Open one and it runs from the first frame to the last, including the quiet parts a highlight reel leaves out.

01 · Portra 800