Where memories
Become Legacy
Photography that feels like memory
and styled like art
There are different ways to reminisce on life and moments that shape it. Some stories are written in journals. Others live through a camera lense, 35 mm film photographs, or short videos captured on your phone. And some of them, perhaps the most precious ones, are stored somewhere in the soft wrinkles of your mind only. Life keeps moving leaving you a beautiful memory. Sacred gift of life.
Photography is the way of remembering your story. Reopening the door to emotions you once lived, felt, breathed. It allows you to return.
more about me
I value depth, connection, sincere laughter that comes from your heart, long talks with depth and compassion, books that change you, films that linger, and all kind of moments I wish I could press pause on. I love the feeling of being surrounded by people who matter to me - my chosen family , my love, my sangha. And I hold those memories of togetherness close to my heart. Some days, I wish I could slow time down just to breathe it in and feel it a little longer.
When I photograph weddings, I look for that same feeling - devotion, friendship, gestures, the longing, the way two people look at each other when they think nobody sees. Those funny looks that we sometimes give each other. I notice the small things that make love real: eyes softening when looking at your soulmate, lips opening and the calmness of knowing when you say "I do."
My work is about witnessing you as you are: honestly, unapologetically, beautifully. I want to capture not only how your day looks, but how it feels. These are the moments that stay. This is the story that lives.
MY NAME IS DARIIA
New York Wedding & Editorial Photographer
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A collection of some of my favourite images from the weddings, editorials, elopements, families and couples sessions.
editorial
Creative offerings
Each editorial project is a visual poem to me. It is shaped by light, movement, texture and intention. We work slowly to allow beauty to emerge rather than be forced.
Just like in Persian poetry, love and truth are revealed through symbolism, metaphor & restraint. And so is the story of your brand, the intention behind it, is revealed in a similar manner through visual metaphor and details.
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Editorial work begins with a vision
weddings
A wedding is a threshold - a dar* - between who you were and who you are becoming. Wedding and beginning a life together is a very intimate process involving a lot of love, trust and wisdom. On a wedding day a lot of important moments are often fleeting and unannounced.
My approach blends in editorial flair with a documentary truth, honoring not only how your day looked, but how it felt. The poetry of the moment is in the in-between. and your love story unfolds through glances, pauses that nobody sees but you...and me :)
I will be present & allowing your day to breathe.
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Elopments
To me, elopements are acts of courage and devotion. It is a true love bursting away from societal expectations and traditions. A love of its own - truthful & fiercely loyal.
Whether vows whispered at dawn somewhere in the mountains or at sunset somewhere in Dumbo, New York, with the city as the backdrop, elopements are documented with love and in the spirit of adventure. Because it is YOUR adventure! And I am so excited and deeply grateful for your love and the very beginning of your forever to be witnessed by me.
This day, this moment, is about your rasa, your essence - the promise, the closeness, the warmth of choosing one another without audience. Your images will be poetic, intimate, honoring your love in its most pure form.
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FAMILY
Visual poetry of belonging. Family love is the love revealed through the everyday. It is a living story shaped by time, choice and devotion. Family is a hearth and a nourishing spring for your family lineage.
I approach family sessions through the rhythm and connection, with tenderness and presence. I guide gently, then step back, allowing real moments to unfold naturally.
The gallery we will create together will be warm and honest. It will become your visual inheritance and remembrance of how it felt to belong to one another in this moment of time.
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