About
Andrea Bianchi
I started photographing weddings almost by accident, in 2013, standing in for a friend who had fallen ill two days before the ceremony. I had a borrowed camera and no plan. I have not stopped since.
I am based in Milan and I shoot roughly eighteen weddings a year — a deliberately small number, so that every couple gets the same attention and every set of photographs gets edited by hand, by me.
I work in a documentary way: long lenses, available light, a lot of patience. I would rather wait forty minutes for a real moment than build a fake one in four.
Approach
01
Observation over direction
I direct as little as possible. A short nudge at the start, then I disappear into the day and let it run.
02
Light before location
A plain white wall in good light beats a beautiful venue in bad light. I plan the day around where the light will be.
03
Edited like film
Neutral, low-contrast, faithful to skin. No trends that will look dated in five years — you're keeping these for decades.
"We forgot he was there. Then the photographs arrived and we saw the whole day again, from the inside."
Chiara & Nicolò — Lake Como, 2024
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