Documentary Wedding Photographer
on the French Riviera
"The depth of the attachment, the smiles, the tears, and the moment when two people become one."
Discover my approach
Your wedding photographs, a year later and ten years later
Documentary wedding photography in Nice, Cannes, Monaco and across Provence. I photograph the day as it happens, and I stage nothing.
Why ?
You will live this day once. The photographs you can look at as often as you like.
"A wedding is told in the order it happened, from the first preparation to the last goodbye."
On this coast the light arrives twice, directly and thrown back by the sea. The hour counts as much as the place.
Beautiful Stories
Bernadette & Jean
Château de la Garde
Nancy & Christian
Château Saint-Georges
A & Y
La Bastide de l'Auberge des Adrets
Getting Ready
Photographing life's key moments with judgement
I photograph weddings as reportage, in contrast to a posed session. The years since 1992 have taught me to stand where the scene unfolds and to anticipate a gesture rather than ask for it. The images that last are the ones nobody saw being taken.
Portraits taken in the flow of the day
Late in the afternoon, the raking light along the coast gives skin tones a warmth that midday flattens. Backlight at that hour separates the figure from the background without hollowing out faces, in contrast to frontal lighting.
Documentary Wedding Photography on the French Riviera
Lawrence Banahan has photographed weddings on the French Riviera and in Provence since 1992, in a documentary style, for French and international couples.
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