THE WEDDING

Over time and across cultures, the celebration of a marriage has remained a constant. Customs shift, rituals evolve, and every gathering carries its own atmosphere, yet the central gesture endures: people assembling to witness and honour the joining of two lives.

Weddings also function as a kind of social portrait. They draw together relatives, friends, neighbours, colleagues, and acquaintances-many of whom would not otherwise share the same room. Each person arrives with a history, a temperament, and a private set of relationships to everyone else present. Affection and tension sit side by side; closeness can be tender or complicated; some guests are deeply invested, while others simply enjoy the occasion from a distance. Out of this mixture-carefully staged, yet never fully controllable-something unexpectedly cohesive can emerge.

Seen in this light, a wedding is more than a declaration of love. It is an exercise in togetherness: a temporary community formed around a shared moment, where bonds are tested, reaffirmed, and sometimes newly made. The value of that gathering is difficult to measure, precisely because it cannot be replicated. Family and community are not interchangeable; they are built through presence, memory, and the decision to show up. This collection approaches the wedding as both event and image.

An occasion that reveals how we connect, how we conflict, and how, for a brief time, many lives are held in the same frame.

…The Wedding…