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Wandering cities on foot with my hands in my pockets. If not, I'm probably at the best pizzeria in town.

30/10/2026

I found another place to call home.

🎞️ Ali Kanıbelli

28/10/2026

As another wedding season comes to an end, I’ve finally found some time to sit down and go through the rolls of 35mm film I’ve shot at weddings, elopements and wedding weekends across Rome, the Roman countryside, Tuscany and Sicily.

And I felt like sharing a few of these moments with you. A groom sitting on a bed, writing his vows. Another trying to hold back his tears as his bride gently touches his face after their first look. A bride reading a few words in the afternoon sunlight. Parents laughing together, a quiet moment inside a church, a veil dancing in the wind. And then there’s the other side of a wedding weekend: pool parties, people drinking, dancing, laughing and having the time of their lives. I think that’s what I love most about photographing weddings.

There is so much happening beyond the ceremony itself, and sometimes the smallest moments tell the biggest stories. I’ve always been quite an emotional person, and being a wedding photographer hasn’t really changed that. If anything, it has made me even more sensitive to people’s stories. Especially during the vows. When I hear two people talking about everything they’ve been through together, the difficult years, the little sacrifices, the times they almost lost their way but somehow kept choosing each other, it’s sometimes impossible not to feel emotional myself.

I’ve found myself hiding tears behind my camera more than once. Then I wipe my eyes and keep photographing, because I know these are moments that will never happen in quite the same way again. Maybe that’s also why I love photographing weddings on 35mm film. It makes me pay attention to the little things, the gestures, the expressions, the beautiful imperfections that might otherwise go unnoticed.

These photographs aren’t necessarily about how perfect a wedding day looked. They’re about how it felt to be there. And I’m grateful to all the people who have allowed me to witness and photograph these little pieces of their lives.

25/10/2026

Leftovers from summer, on 35mm film. A little bit of Rome, the Amalfi Coast, Sicily, Tuscany and Kraków. Some familiar faces, some new ones, places I’ve passed through, and ordinary moments that somehow felt worth remembering.

Somewhere on the long drive from Rome to Sicily, I came across the word “SELF” painted on the asphalt at a motorway service station. It felt strangely appropriate. Long road trips always leave plenty of room for thinking about yourself, your past, the people you’ve met and the decisions you’ve made along the way. One Sunday morning in Rome, I was riding my Vespa when I found myself waiting at a red light behind a man on a scooter. I took his photograph because, to me, nothing beats riding through Rome on a quiet Sunday morning towards the end of summer. There’s also a photograph of a messy living room that I couldn’t resist taking. Perhaps because it looked a little too much like the inside of my head. And a shadow of a tree falling across a building that, for some reason, looked like fireworks to me. I love those little moments when something completely ordinary suddenly becomes something else in your imagination.

The rest is a mixture of the outside world and my own little world. Friends, strangers, familiar streets, unfamiliar places, the sea, quiet afternoons, and all those small things that make up a summer without necessarily being the things you remember first.

A few leftovers from a season that already feels quite far away.

All photographed on 35mm film with my Leica M2, Contax G2 and Contax T2.

02/10/2026

A quiet piece of my everyday life in Rome is making its way to Paris.

This photograph, from the window I have looked through while writing for the past four years, will be exhibited as part of Somewhere: Fragments of Memory at ImageNation Paris 2026, during Paris Photo week.

There is something I like about an image so ordinary and personal leaving the place where it was made, and becoming part of another room, another city, another memory.

ImageNation Paris 2026
Galerie Joseph Turenne, Paris
13–14-15 November 2026

See you in Paris.

21/09/2026

Mathilde and Bendik came from Norway to Tuscany and brought their people with them from Norway and different corners of Europe for a wedding at Villa Catignano that felt warm, elegant and completely alive.

They were a little shy in front of the camera at first, but they already knew my work and gave me probably the best kind of brief a photographer can receive: we trust you, just do your thing.

So that’s what I did.

Everyone spoke Norwegian, which meant I couldn’t always follow what was being said or know exactly what was about to happen. But I’m an observer by nature, so I found myself completely locked into body language, facial expressions and emotional reactions instead. A glance across the room, someone suddenly laughing, a hand reaching for another hand, the few seconds before a hug. Those little signals became my way of following the day and anticipating the moments.

As the hours passed, they forgot more and more about the cameras. I could simply move through the day and photograph what was happening rather than direct it.

Somewhere along the way I also found out that Bendik was into road cycling, so naturally we ended up talking about bikes and I started suggesting routes for the rest of their time in Tuscany and Italy. I like these small connections that happen around a wedding day. By the end, it feels less like I’ve simply been there as their Tuscany wedding photographer and more like I’ve actually spent the day with them.

I photographed everything with both digital cameras and 35mm analogue film. Two different ways of remembering the same day: one more immediate, the other imperfect, tactile and especially good once the night got louder.

There are far too many photographs from this wedding that I want to share, so there will definitely be a second post.

20/09/2026

A surprise engagement photoshoot in Rome, on a beautiful afternoon in Villa Borghese. The first few minutes had to stay completely secret while I waited for the proposal moment to happen. After that, everything changed: lots of laughter, movement, wind, and two people who were incredibly fun to photograph. This is exactly what I love about working as an engagement photographer in Rome. Once the secret was out, there was nothing left to do but enjoy the afternoon together and let the photos happen naturally.

19/09/2026

A 35mm film engagement photoshoot in Rome with two newly engaged people from Brooklyn.

She booked me months before their trip because she specifically wanted the photos taken on film. Which, obviously, made me happy. We met in the morning and mostly just walked. No complicated itinerary. A few stops when the light or a street looked good, some portraits, a coffee, a deck of cards that became unexpectedly useful, later a little w**e, and a lot of laughing in between.

They’re getting married back in the US, so technically this was an engagement photoshoot. But I like these sessions much more when they don’t spend two hours announcing that fact. The ring is there, the Colosseum is there, Rome is there but mostly it’s just the two of them being themselves. That’s also what I love about photographing couples on 35mm film. You can’t keep shooting the same moment twenty times and checking the screen after each frame. You take the photograph and move on. Sometimes things are slightly out of focus, somebody moves, a hand enters the frame or the composition gets a little strange.

Good. That’s usually where the photographs start feeling alive. 35mm film photography in Rome, somewhere between an engagement session, a morning walk and hanging out with two people who clearly enjoy each other’s company.

14/09/2026

The bride holding a Sangiovese grape somewhere in the vineyards of southern Tuscany feels like the right way to start the digital chapter of their elopement. Rana and Zach came all the way from Texas because they wanted something completely different from a traditional wedding. Just the two of them, far from home, spending an entire day together in Val d’Orcia.

We moved slowly through the countryside, vineyards and little medieval towns around Pienza, Bagno Vignoni and Montalcino, stopping whenever something felt worth stopping for. And because I studied w**e, especially Italian w**e, I somehow feel responsible for giving my couples a little w**e education when we are in places like this. So between photographs there was also plenty of talk about Sangiovese, vineyards and the w**es of Montalcino.

Rana was also into 35mm film photography, so at some point I handed her my Leica to play with for a bit. Naturally, that also turned into a few portraits of her holding it, which felt very fitting for the day. We were together from the beginning of the day until dinner, which eventually turned into another long conversation. Zach is an academic, and with my degree in Political Science and International Relations, politics and society inevitably entered the discussion. Film photography, grain, texture, and why analogue images feel different also found their way to the table. That was probably my favourite part of the day. Clicking with two people through completely different interests while documenting something they had deliberately chosen to keep intimate and entirely their own.

A full day wandering through Val d’Orcia, documented by your tipsy Tuscany elopement photographer.

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13/09/2026

The bride holding a Prugnolo Gentile grape, a Sangiovese clone, somewhere in the vineyards of southern Tuscany feels like the right way to start the digital chapter of their elopement. Rana and Zach came all the way from Texas because they wanted something completely different from a traditional wedding. Just the two of them, far from home, spending an entire day together in Val d’Orcia.

We moved slowly through the countryside, vineyards and little medieval towns around Pienza, Bagno Vignoni and Montepulciano, stopping whenever something felt worth stopping for. And because I studied w**e, I somehow feel responsible for giving my couples a little w**e education when we are in places like this. So between photographs there was also plenty of talk about Sangiovese, vineyards and the w**es of Montepulciano.

Rana was also into 35mm film photography, so at some point I handed her my Leica to play with for a bit. Naturally, that also turned into a few portraits of her holding it, which felt very fitting for the day. We were together from the beginning of the day until dinner, which eventually turned into another long conversation. Zach is an academic, and with my degree in Political Science and International Relations, politics and society inevitably entered the discussion. Film photography, grain, texture, and why analogue images feel different also found their way to the table. That was probably my favourite part of the day. Clicking with two people through completely different interests while documenting something they had deliberately chosen to keep intimate and entirely their own.

A full day wandering through Val d’Orcia, documented by your tipsy Tuscany elopement photographer.

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11/09/2026

Wedding photographer in Milan, but make it a morning with trams, coffee, a little 35mm film and two people who finally get to live in the same city! 🙃 Asena and Bedirhan spent part of their relationship moving around Europe for study and work, sometimes doing the long distance thing along the way. Now they finally live together in Milano, and after getting married they wanted some photographs to mark that chapter.

We started at the Duomo, where Bedirhan had proposed to Asena, wandered through the Galleria and nearby streets, jumped on one of the old Milan trams they both love, stopped for coffee and kept everything easy. We had already met the evening before for aperitivo and pasta, which helped a lot because by the time I brought the cameras out the next morning, it already felt more like hanging out than doing a photoshoot.

I also carried my film camera and shot a few frames on 35mm film along the way, because apparently carrying only one camera would be too sensible. And a small reminder, because Instagram seems to enjoy hiding this information from people: Yes, I travel! 😌 Milano, Florence, Venice, Tuscany, Sicily and pretty much anywhere else in Italy. I also photograph weddings and couples around Europe. So if you’re looking for a wedding photographer in Milan and you prefer walking, talking, trams, coffee and photographs that don’t feel like a two hour posing class, you know where to find me.

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