a year ago today, i was driving with my family from maryland to raleigh to photograph a wedding. i'd had one the night before, as well, and we hit traffic on the way and i barely made it in time. but i was coming home - to the muslim community i grew up in - as i have many times now to photograph the weddings of some of the younger raleigh generation, the kid brothers and sisters of the ones i knew when i lived here.
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here's a bit of a departure from my usual work! i've had the pleasure this year of working with a dear friend of mine who is in the process of realizing a business dream of her own - to start a fashionable, modest clothing line. tasnuva khan started modest lily just a few months ago, as a way to respond to her own concerns and the concerns of many of our friends...
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i had the pleasure of working with the rahman family a second time this summer to photograph zahir and maggie's beautiful hilton baltimore wedding. i also had the invaluable help of gene aronov as my second shooter throughout the evening. the couple, who met as students, chose moroccan-themed decor to honor the time they spent abroad in morocco...
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it's always such an honor for me to have the opportunity to photograph a second wedding in the same family. so when nabila, whose wedding i photographed in 2011, contacted me to see if i was available for her brother's wedding this summer, i was super excited. they are the kindest family, and zahir's wedding promised to be unforgettable. it was my pleasure to meet the lovely maggie on the first night of the two-day wedding, at the mehndi at zahir's family's home in baltimore…
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the third and final day of gagan & vanu's wedding started before the sun rose, but everything was in place for the morning ceremony. gagan made his entrance on horseback, to the echoing thunder of the traditional dhol drum - which he himself played when i made my entrance at my own wedding, twelve years ago. the rain couldn't dampen the spirits of this wedding party…
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i met vanu just a few months ago when we got together in raleigh to shoot her and gagan's engagement session, but i met gagan about 20 years ago when his oldest sister and i became bffs in college. gagan's family are so dear to my heart, and seeing him with this incredible young woman and how happy they make each other has been such a blessing…
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