<p>A destination weekend on the Amalfi coast, photographed the way we photograph everything: quietly, from inside the day rather than in front of it. The ceremony ran late enough that the light came in low off the water and did most of the work for us.</p>
<h3>From the same weekend</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/horizon.jpg" alt="Couple on a terrace looking out over the sea" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>The terrace, before dinner</figcaption></figure>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/villa-terrace.jpg" alt="Villa terrace and pool overlooking the sea" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>The villa, mid-afternoon</figcaption></figure>
<p>Destination weddings are covered end to end, travel included. Two photographers is the usual crew, with a cinematographer alongside when there is film as well.</p>

Vows exchanged under a stone pergola above the sea, the whole coastline standing in as a backdrop.

Villa Vows

<p>Twenty minutes on a rooftop between the ceremony and the reception, which is usually all there is. Blue hour in Manhattan is short and unforgiving, so we scout the corner in daylight and know exactly where we are standing before the couple arrives.</p>
<h3>Elsewhere that night</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/first-dance.jpg" alt="Newlywed couple during their first dance in a ballroom" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>First dance, downstairs</figcaption></figure>
<p>New York weddings are the studio's home ground. We know the venues, the light in them, and how long the walk between floors really takes.</p>

A rooftop ceremony at blue hour, with every lit window in Midtown behind it.

Skyline

<p>Available light, a slow shutter and a little drag in the skirt. The first dance is the moment a reception decides what kind of night it is going to be, and it is nearly always better unposed than arranged.</p>
<h3>Later the same evening</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/confetti.jpg" alt="Guests throwing confetti over a newlywed couple" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>The exit</figcaption></figure>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/cinema.jpg" alt="Cinematographer filming a candlelit wedding reception" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Our cinematographer, working the same room</figcaption></figure>
<p>Photographers and cinematographers from the studio work as one crew, so the two never get in each other's way.</p>

The floor clears, the room leans in, and nobody is thinking about the camera any more.

First Dance

<p>Unposed is not the same as unplanned. We know where the confetti line will form, we know which side the light is on, and then we let the moment happen without directing a second of it.</p>
<h3>Nearby frames</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/skyline.jpg" alt="Couple on a Manhattan rooftop at dusk" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Portraits, an hour earlier</figcaption></figure>
<p>Every wedding is delivered as a full edited gallery, with albums and proof magazines made from it afterwards.</p>

A church door, a handful of confetti, and two people who forgot they were being photographed.

Confetti

<p>A two-day celebration in a walled courtyard outside Siena. The long table went in at four, the candles were lit at eight, and the party ran until the lights came down.</p>
<h3>From the same trip</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/villa-amalfi.jpg" alt="Ceremony under a stone pergola on the Italian coast" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Coastal ceremony, the week before</figcaption></figure>
<p>Destination coverage includes travel, scouting the day before, and a second photographer as standard.</p>

Dinner under the olive trees, lit by candles and a string of lights nobody wanted switched off.

Long Table

<p>The weather turned an hour before the portraits and the whole session became better for it. Flat coastal light, no shadows to fight, and a stretch of empty beach at the end of the season.</p>
<h3>Related</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/bride-portrait.jpg" alt="Bride in a strapless gown photographed against soft white drapery" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Atelier portrait, made that morning</figcaption></figure>
<p>The Hamptons and the wider East End are a regular run for the studio through the summer season.</p>

A gown, a grey Atlantic and a bride who wanted her photographs made barefoot.

Montauk

<p>Made in the quiet half hour couples almost never get on their own wedding day. We take them out of the party, walk two minutes, and bring them back before anyone notices they were gone.</p>
<h3>Same coast</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/villa-terrace.jpg" alt="Villa terrace with a pool overlooking the sea" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>The villa</figcaption></figure>
<p>Travel and destination portraiture is offered on its own as well, not only around a wedding.</p>

Two people, one terrace, and an entire sea doing the work of a backdrop.

Horizon

<p>An hour in the studio with one light and a lot of white fabric. Bridal portraits sit somewhere between fashion and documentary work, and they are worth booking separately from the wedding itself.</p>
<h3>Also from the studio</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/little-ones.jpg" alt="Young child photographed in soft natural window light" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Children's portraits</figcaption></figure>
<p>Studio sessions are booked at 291 7th Avenue, with prints and albums made from the same session.</p>

A gown photographed properly, on the person who chose it, before the day takes over.

Atelier

<p>We photograph the room before the day fills it. Empty venues are half of what makes an album feel like a place rather than a series of faces, and they take ten minutes to shoot if you arrive early enough.</p>
<h3>Later that day</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/horizon.jpg" alt="Couple silhouetted on a terrace above the sea" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Couple portraits, before dinner</figcaption></figure>
<p>Venue and detail coverage is included in every wedding collection.</p>

The venue at three in the afternoon, before a single guest has arrived.

Terrace

<p>Engagement sessions are the rehearsal. An hour together with a camera means that by the wedding day nobody is stiff, nobody is waiting to be told what to do, and we already know how the two of you actually behave around each other.</p>
<h3>Other sessions</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/brooklyn.jpg" alt="The Brooklyn Bridge photographed in black and white" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Brooklyn, at first light</figcaption></figure>
<p>Engagement portraits are often made into a small album or a proof magazine ahead of the wedding.</p>

An engagement session that turned into a long walk with a camera somewhere behind.

Central Park

<p>Shot in black and white at half past five in the morning, which is the only hour the bridge is quiet enough to work on. Worth the alarm every time.</p>
<h3>Related</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/central-park.jpg" alt="Engaged couple walking together in the city in autumn" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Uptown, the same season</figcaption></figure>
<p>City sessions can be booked at sunrise or in the last hour before dark. Both are quieter than they sound.</p>

First light on the bridge, when it belongs to about six people.

Brooklyn

<p>Our cinematographers are studio staff, not a company we hand you off to. They shoot the same way the photographers do, in available light and out of the way, so the film and the photographs feel like they came from the same day rather than two different weddings.</p>
<h3>The same reception</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/first-dance.jpg" alt="Couple during their first dance in a ballroom" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>First dance</figcaption></figure>
<p>Films are delivered as a short highlight edit with longer cuts of the ceremony and the speeches.</p>

The other half of the crew, working the same room with the same light.

In Motion

<p>Mitzvahs are photographed by the same team, with the same instinct for the ten seconds either side of the thing everyone remembers. The service in the morning is quiet work; the party is not.</p>
<h3>Also for families</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/little-ones.jpg" alt="Child photographed by a window in natural light" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Children's portraits</figcaption></figure>
<p>Bar and bat mitzvah coverage runs from the service through to the last dance, with albums made afterwards.</p>

Lifted on a chair over a room that has been waiting all year for this.

Simcha

<p>Children's portraits are made on their schedule, not ours. Window light, no backdrop, no instructions worth ignoring. We photograph a lot of families years after we photographed the wedding, which is the part of this job we did not expect to like most.</p>
<h3>Related</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/heirloom.jpg" alt="Open leather wedding album with printed photographs" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Prints and albums</figcaption></figure>
<p>Sessions are booked either at the studio or at home, whichever the child will tolerate longer.</p>

A child by a window, photographed in the ten minutes before they were done with us.

Little Ones

<p>Albums are designed in the studio and made by hand, in leather or linen, at the size the pictures deserve rather than the size that is cheapest to bind. Proof magazines are the lighter version: the full take, printed, easy to pass around a family table.</p>
<h3>Made from</h3>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/villa-amalfi.jpg" alt="Ceremony under a stone pergola at an Italian villa" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Villa Vows</figcaption></figure>
<figure><img src="https://briandorseystudios.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/montauk.jpg" alt="Bride seated on a beach in a vintage gown" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Montauk</figcaption></figure>
<p>Design proofs come back to you before anything is printed, and revisions are part of the process.</p>

The part that outlives the hard drive: printed, bound and made to be handled.