Weddings
Full-day coverage for two of us, an edited gallery of roughly six hundred frames, and thirty of them printed.
The quiet partof the day.
A photography studio working across weddings, portraits and editorial commissions.
We shoot at the edges of the day, when the light is doing something you cannot ask it to do twice. Everything after that is logistics.
Selected work
One wedding,
start to finish.
Hollie and Tom, eleven hours, two rolls of black and white and a very late dinner.
What we photograph
Portraits
Ninety minutes, daylight only, at the studio or somewhere that already means something to you.
Editorial and commercial
Campaigns, lookbooks and press portraits. We can bring the set, the crew and the licence you actually need.
Mara Halvorsen
I started Vesper in 2013, after six years of shooting other people's assignments and slowly working out which half of the frame I actually cared about.
I work quietly and I work close. Most of what ends up in a gallery happened while nobody was being told where to stand. I still shoot part of every wedding on film, because it makes me slower, and slower is the entire point.
“We opened the gallery and my mother cried at the third photograph. That is the whole review.”
Elin Sørby, married in June
“Mara shot the spring campaign in one afternoon. Half of what we ran went out unretouched.”
Piet van Dael, brand director at Norra Atelier
“I have never liked a photograph of myself. I now have eleven of them on a wall.”
Tomás Iriarte, cellist
Book a date
We take a small number of commissions each year so that none of them feel like the fourth one that month. Tell us the date and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right studio for it.