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Hindu Wedding Photographer in Brighton

Photographing Hindu weddings the relaxed way in Brighton, from the dhol of the baraat to the calm of the mandap, ready to travel wherever your celebration takes you.

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Your Hindu wedding photographer in Brighton, at a glance

Behind the camera at Hindu weddings in Brighton is Kaushik Bathia, whose work has earned five European Gold awards and whose experience runs to more than a thousand celebrations over twenty five years. We treat the priest's space as his own, staying low and quiet so the mantras and the offerings continue exactly as they should while we photograph from the side. The rituals at the mandap in Brighton, the kanyadaan, the hasta melap, the mangalpheras and the sindoor, are photographed discreetly and without ever stepping into the family's view. Decor is at its best before anyone touches it, a lesson learned early, so we arrive with time in hand to photograph the mandap and the tables while they are still perfect. We are glad to travel to East Sussex and well beyond it, and once dates are agreed you can add a pre-wedding shoot, a second photographer and a hand finished fine art album to the booking.

The Royal Pavilion is an Indo Saracenic palace built for the Prince Regent, and holding a Hindu wedding there produces a match between building and ceremony that almost nowhere else in the country offers. A baraat outside it draws a crowd. Inside, ganesh puja, the jaimala, kanyadaan, the seven steps around the agni and the mangalsutra proceed as they would anywhere. Preston Park, the city's largest with lawns and a walled rock garden, gives the couple somewhere quieter afterwards. Kemptown and Rottingdean continue along the coast.

Serving Brighton

Twenty five years of Hindu weddings, now in Brighton

Brighton sits on the coast, and everything outdoors on a Hindu day answers to that before it answers to anything else. An onshore breeze lifts a dupatta and undoes an hour of hair inside a minute. Open-air pictures therefore want a sheltered aspect and a firm ten-minute slot rather than an unhurried wander with a camera in hand, and the slot is better placed early, while nobody has begun looking for you.

A wall around a garden does two useful jobs at once: it stops the wind and it puts a background at eye level instead of open sky. Preston Park has one. The mature trees there are less kind in strong sun, because dappled sun drops hard coins onto skin and later work will not lift them out; the shaded flank of a tree line holds far steadier.

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What we offer

What is included in your Brighton Hindu wedding coverage

25 Years' Experience

Fine-art Albums

Reception & First Dance

Every Hindu ritual

Photographing the pheras as they happen

Fire alters the exposure problem rather than adding to it. The flame burns low and small, lighting chins and eye sockets from underneath, while the canopy overhead removes the daylight that would otherwise fill them in. That is not something one reading of the room solves. We meter for faces, keep our own lighting away from the rite where it would intrude, and treat the warmth in the frame as a description of what a havan looks like rather than an error to be corrected.

Sightlines settle everything else. A mandap seats the priest and pulls both families in close, which leaves perhaps two positions worth standing in, and both want agreeing before anybody takes their place. Garlanding is finished in about two seconds and frequently happens off the ground, so readiness beats reaction. Around the circuit we change where we stand, how high we are and what glass is on the body at every pass, since one frame repeated is not coverage.

Wedding traditions photographed in Brighton

Why choose us

Comfortable in the mandap and the mayhem

Two things separate somebody who has done this from somebody who has not: knowing which moments will not come round again, and knowing when to stop moving. We hold a position through the vows and work hard either side of them. None of that asks you to perform for a camera, and none of it interrupts a priest mid-sentence.

Good to know

Wedding photography in Brighton, frequently asked questions

Can you photograph a garba or raas night in Brighton?+

Yes. Garba is a moving circle in poor light, so we work from inside the ring as well as outside it, bouncing flash rather than pointing it, with a shutter quick enough to hold a stick mid-strike. Expect grain in places; that is the picture.

Do you cover the mehndi and sangeet nights?+

Both, yes. A mehndi night is close work under household lamps: hands, cones, fabric and faces bent over the design. A sangeet is staged, an order of items with rehearsal behind it, and its lighting should be handled the way theatre lighting is handled.

How do we receive and share our images?+

Everything edited goes into a gallery of your own, password protected, viewable on a phone, downloadable at full size and shareable with relatives by one link. Prints and albums are ordered from there whenever you feel ready.

Do you shoot posed portraits or candid moments for couples in Brighton?+

Both, and the balance is yours to set. Most of a Brighton day gets covered with nobody being told anything, because the worthwhile things happen when people stop feeling watched. The arranged part is family groups plus a short unhurried spell alone with you both.

How much does a Hindu wedding photographer in Brighton cost?+

Number of days, number of hours and whether a second shooter joins us all move the figure, so a quote follows once your Brighton day has a shape. Send the date over and the options arrive in writing.