Stills · other houses
The photographers the films sit beside.
Not a paid list. The stills houses whose work already circulates with the cinema on this reel: London desks, Mumbai, Karachi, Birmingham. Open their own sites. Booking them is not booking Cinemotion.uk.
Ask what they refuse
A useful photographer can say where they will not stand: in front of the Guru Granth Sahib, across a segregated nikkah, inside the pheras. If they cannot name the limit, they have not worked the rite.
Separate the stills
Cinema and photographs are two clocks. Flash on the formal list only. No flash on a vow. If one person is doing both, ask which moment they will miss, and decide it is acceptable.
One grade, or two
If the film and the album are different houses, agree the colour before the mehndi. A warm film and a cool album look like two weddings. The skin-tone desk is the reference, not a filter to copy blindly.
Mumbai
Their siteStories by Joseph Radhik
Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, destination
The stills house behind several films on this reel, including Nayanthara and Deepika & Ranveer. Sony Global Imaging Ambassador. International Photography Awards, weddings, global first, 2015. Vogue, Netflix, and the brides who ask for him by name.
London
Their siteSikh & Dread
Sikh, Hindu, Muslim, fusion
Luxury editorial, named by Khush Magazine among the world’s best wedding photographers. Published in British Vogue, Tatler and Brides. WPPI and SWPP recognition. Mayfair, and anywhere the wedding travels.
London
Their siteApresh Chavda
Hindu, Sikh, Tamil, Muslim
A husband-and-wife desk with more than 800 celebrations. Documentary through the rite, editorial when the light allows. Mehndi, haldi, jaan, Anand Karaj, walima.
London
Their sitePhotos by Abhi
Hindu, Sikh, Muslim
Winner of the Britain’s Asian Wedding Awards. Works London, Birmingham, Leicester and destination days. Documentary first, portraits when the family asks for them.
London
Their siteNick Rose
Hindu, Sikh
Fifteen years of mehndi-to-mandap days in London and abroad. He knows the order of the rite, which is the only way the quiet frames get made.
Mumbai
Their siteWeddingNama
Hindu, destination
Ankita Asthana and Akash. The Bikaner palace film Just Gonna Hold You took the GIWA award for best wedding moments. Kashmir, palaces, and a cut that behaves like a short.
London
Their siteRoyal Bindi
Sikh, Hindu, Muslim
In the room since 2006, across London, Birmingham and Leicester. Also the house behind the Grand Connaught film on this reel. Stills and cinema from the same crew.
London
Their siteMemory Filming
Nikkah, Anand Karaj, Vivaah, Gaye Holud
Twenty-five years. They count 3,300 Asian ceremonies across six traditions, and they know where a camera may stand in a gurdwara.
Karachi
Their siteZeeshan Abbas
Muslim, baraat
Fatima & Bilal, Peer Vi Tu, is on this reel: a Karachi baraat past three million views. Photography that already behaves like a film.
Birmingham
Their siteMoazzam Ali Films
Muslim, nikkah, walima
British Pakistani highlights with the numbers to prove the audience: Dewsbury, Birmingham, and the Kubra Khan bridal film Adaab-e-Nikkah.