Documentary wedding & family photography · Hebden Bridge

The day as it actually happened, not as it was arranged.

Ryburn & Grain photograph the bits between the bits — the buttonhole being pinned, the hand on the small of a back, the uncle who cannot get through the reading. Two of us, all day, no posing list, and the whole gallery back inside five weeks.
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Two photographers on every wedding184 weddings since 2016Full gallery in five weeks
12AAbove Heptonstall, the last twenty minutes of light
“Six hundred and forty photographs, five weeks after the wedding, and not one of them is of the two of us looking at a camera and smiling. That was the entire brief and they did not flinch at it.”
Rob & Callum Dyson-Wray · Stoodley Hall, June 2025

Two of us, one room above the Rochdale Canal

Esme Thackray spent eight years on the picture desk of a Yorkshire daily before she started the studio in 2016 — eight years of choosing, from three hundred frames, the one that told the truth. Joss Fairweather joined in 2019, shoots alongside her on every wedding, and hand-develops the medium-format film in the back room. We work from Unit 4 at Linden Mill, we take one wedding a weekend, and we have photographed 184 of them.
Collections

Three collections, and the prices are the prices

Every collection includes both of us at the planning call, a walk of your venue beforehand where it is within an hour of the studio, and the full edited gallery — never a selection of it.
Half day
£1,395
Five hours · one photographer
Ceremony, group shots and the first hour of the reception. The right size for a register office and a long lunch afterwards.
Around 300 edited images · online gallery for a year
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Full day
£2,150
Ten hours · two photographers
From the last hour of getting ready to the first dance. Around six hundred edited frames, and both of us there the whole way.
Around 600 edited images · gallery for life · print release
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Full day + film
£2,330
Ten hours · two of us · one roll of 120
Everything in the full day, plus a roll of medium-format film that Joss develops by hand and scans at the studio. Twelve frames, and they are always the ones on the wall.
Around 600 digital plus 12 film frames · gallery for life
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A £300 deposit holds the date; the balance is due a month before. We take one wedding a weekend, so the date is genuinely gone once it is booked.
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