“The thing about Andreas’ work is this - they are works of art that should be hung on your walls.”

Abby Larson — Style Me Pretty

"May I say your photography is outstanding and beautifully caught with a very imaginative set of eyes."

— Ted Grant, Canadian Photojournalist

What I see at weddings.

— ITALIAN WEDDING, TORONTO 2024

— PRIVATE VILLA WEDDING, SAMOS GREECE 2023

How it started, and what I’m looking for….

Long before I ever considered being a photographer, when I was a student at art school, I brought one of my father’s old film cameras and few rolls of black and white film to a wedding of a close family friend. I didn’t actually know what I was doing, and most of those images were greatly under or over exposed. But I there as a guest, and completely ignored as I wandered around with the camera, and without really realizing it at the time, this is how my life as a wedding photographer started out.

Many years later, when I was working commercially as a photographer and retoucher producing work for international brands, I photographed another family friend’s wedding on black and white film, this time with some better results. Of all the images captured, the candid moments were the ones that everyone seemed to respond to the most.

While my advertising work were pixel perfect, highly edited photo illustrations, my personal and wedding work was gritty, up close, and heavily inspired by photographers whose subject matter was the complete opposite of weddings — war photographers!

At the time, I found that very intimate and emotional work quite interesting and awe inspiring; to be able to create beauty out of such chaos and horror was interesting to me at the time, and in a way, my early work was influenced by that very up close and personal approach to capturing moments between people.

I began photographing weddings full time around the time that I met my wife, and I’ve since photographed hundreds of weddings both locally and abroad.

Since 2003, I’ve met couples from all walks of life representing a wide range of cultures and traditions, and what despite the repetition in subject matter, what actually keeps me interested in this work, and what inspires me as a photographer isn’t creating the expected or the planned, and while weddings are beautiful, and everyone looks great, I’m not really photographing weddings for the clothing, the fashion, or for the gram!

I’m far more interested in capturing the genuine human story than simply create those perfect “wedding” photos that people tend to expect because at the end of the day, what matters most are having photographs that are original and unique to that wedding day.

What I see, and how I react when photographing a wedding is shaped by my own family experiences. Being married for over twenty years, and being a father to three children has also greatly influenced my work as well.

I’m interested in the surprising moments that can’t be put onto a shot list, and I really enjoy photographing weddings where there is no set plan, but more of a guideline where things can evolve and happen on their own.

I’m a wedding photographer, and proud of the work I do, but I do call myself that reluctantly because of all of the trends and assumptions around this work we do. I’d rather simply say, I’m a documentary photographer who photographs families celebrating together, and do so by simply observing and documenting real life moments as I see them.

That’s it. It’s not really much more complicated than that. What I do, and how I do it though, that’s all me.

Photography is a singular pursuit, not a team sport, so I work alone when photographing a wedding. I show up, and for all intents and purposes, I’m just another one of your guests. I interact, socialize, and establish comfort and trust so that I can get truly personal and relaxed candid photographs of you enjoying this day with your inner circle of close friends and family.

When I’m done, I leave, never to really be seen again by anyone from that day — it’s an odd profession, where I’m there with you during this very intimate and emotional day, only to part ways later on as life keeps moving forward.

I’ll leave you with this thought about the value of wedding photography. The most memorable photograph isn’t the posed one, it’s not the planned one, and it’s not the copied one that’s all over social media — it’s the unrepeatable, deeply personal human moment that quite often, no one even noticed happening.

If that’s what you’re after for your photographs, I’d love to get to know you.

Send me an email or give me a call.

I respond to every message personally, and often do so within a day or so of receiving them.

Thank you for your time here today.

Andreas Avdoulos