Studio Lumière EST · 2014
Studio / About

About the
studio.

Studio Lumière is a two-person photography practice based in Mumbai, photographing weddings, families and editorial work across India and abroad since 2014. Currently booking 2026 / 2027

Photographer · Founder

Hi, I'm Aarav.

I started photographing weddings the year I left advertising — a quiet Goa wedding for a friend who couldn't afford a "real" photographer. I shot it on a borrowed Mamiya 645 and three rolls of Portra. I've been a wedding photographer ever since.

Studio Lumière is a deliberately small practice. We take on twenty-four weddings a year, a handful of editorial commissions, and a steady rhythm of newborn and family sessions out of our Bandra studio.

I photograph alongside Naina Joshi, my partner and co-lead — together we run every wedding as a two-camera team. Our work has been published in Vogue India, Khush Magazine and The Voice of Fashion, but our favourite frames are still the ones nobody asks us to take.

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How we work

Our
approach.

01

Quiet on set.

We don't pose, we don't direct. We listen, we move slowly, and we wait for the moments that find themselves.

02

Film & digital.

Every wedding is shot on a mix of medium-format film (Portra 400, Tri-X) and Leica digital — for archival warmth and tonal honesty.

03

Hand-edited.

Every frame in your gallery is hand-toned by us — no batch presets, no AI clean-ups. We deliver fewer, better images.

04

Albums, always.

Photographs deserve paper. Every wedding package includes a hand-bound 12×10 archival album printed in Italy.

Press · Selected

Published
work.

2025
Vogue India
"The New Indian Wedding Issue"
2024
Khush Mag
Cover feature — winter issue
2024
Wedding Sutra
Photographer of the Year, finalist
2023
The Voice of Fashion
Editorial commission · Spring

Studio kit · For the curious

What's in the bag.

We shoot with what serves the moment. The tools are the same most weeks — film bodies for the slow frames, Leicas for everything else.

Film
Mamiya 645 · Pentax 67
Digital
Leica M11 · SL3
Glass
35 / 50 / 75 · Summilux
Stock
Portra 400 · Tri-X 400