Portland, Oregon · travelling constantly

We photograph what happened, not what should have

Maya Halloran on stills, Devon West on film. One wedding a weekend, together, since 2017.

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How we actually work

We do not pose you. There is a fifteen-minute window somewhere after the ceremony where we take you somewhere with good light and mostly get out of the way, and that is the entire extent of the direction you will get from us all day.

The rest is documentary. That means we are watching your grandmother’s face during the vows rather than arranging the ring shot, and it means some years you get a photograph you would never have thought to ask for and could not have staged.

You gave us the photo of my dad in the kitchen doorway at 11pm. He died in April. It is on our wall.

What that costs you

Honestly: a few pictures. If you want forty formal group shots with named lists, we are the wrong people and we will say so on the call rather than take your deposit. We shoot family groups, but eight or ten of them, done in twenty minutes.

What you get back

Seven minutes. Real audio, no music bed under the vows.
Getting-ready room, late morning light

The two hours nobody plans for

By Maya Halloran · 2 March 2026

Every timeline we are sent accounts for the ceremony to the minute and gives getting-ready a vague ninety minutes. Then the day arrives and getting-ready is where half the good photographs live, because it is the only stretch where nobody is performing.

Ask for a room with a window

Not a big room. A window. We would rather shoot a small bedroom with north light than a hotel suite lit by four ceiling cans and a ring light, and we will spend the first ten minutes moving your bags out of frame either way.

Get dressed early

Not for us — for you. Every couple who has finished getting ready thirty minutes ahead has spent those thirty minutes sitting with the people they love, and every one of them has told us afterwards it was their favourite part of the day.

We built in a spare half hour on your advice and ended up drinking a beer with my brother. That is the photo I look at.

Collections

Both of us, both crafts, always. We do not sell photography without film — the whole point is that they were made by two people in the same room.

The weekend

$9,4002 days

  • Everything in The day
  • Welcome dinner or rehearsal covered
  • Sunday morning session
  • A 12×12 archival album, 40 spreads
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Elopement

$3,2004 hours

  • Both of us, up to 12 guests
  • 300+ edited frames
  • 3 minute film
  • Travel included within Oregon and Washington
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The two of us

Maya and Devon

We met on a newspaper picture desk in 2014 and left it in the same month. Maya still shoots the way she was trained to — available light, no interference, forty rolls’ worth of patience for one frame. Devon came out of documentary sound and cares more about what your ceremony sounded like than what it looked like from a drone. We live in Sellwood with a bad-tempered greyhound called Editor, we take one wedding a weekend so we are never tired at yours, and we have photographed 214 of them together.

Maya and Devon on a porch with their greyhound

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We take roughly 22 weddings a year and we answer every enquiry ourselves, usually within two days.

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