Journal
Notes from nine years
of Ghanaian SaturdaysEverything I find myself explaining at first meetings, written down so you can read it before we ever speak. Mostly practical, occasionally about light.
The long read · February 2026
The four moments at a Ghanaian wedding that are worth clearing the room for
Her mother fixing the cloth. The moment the door opens. The first four bars of the song they chose without telling anyone. And the ten minutes after the ceremony when nobody has found you yet. Everything else on a wedding day can be photographed around people; these four cannot, and knowing them in advance is most of what a photographer is for.
The journal
Everything I get asked
before the deposit
For the family · January 2026
What actually happens at a Ghanaian engagement
The knocking, the list, the three hours in the compound — and the four moments in it that are worth clearing the room for.
On light · December 2025
Harmattan light, and why January weddings photograph so well
The dust in the air does something to four-o'clock sun that no modifier I own can imitate. It is the best month of the year to get married in Accra.
Planning · October 2025
Choose the venue for the light, not the floor plan
Where the sun sits at four o'clock decides more about your photographs than the flowers, the dress and the second photographer put together.
More from the journal
Three shorter ones,
answered in a paragraphPlanning · September 2025
How many hours of coverage you actually need
Ten is the honest answer for a Ghanaian wedding day, and eight is what most couples ask for. The difference is almost always the last hour of the reception, which is where the photographs of your friends are.
On the day · July 2025
A first look, or the aisle? Both, honestly
The argument against a first look is that it spoils the aisle. In nine years I have watched it do the opposite every single time, and I can show you the frames.
Afterwards · May 2025
Why the album is worth printing, even now
A gallery is a link, and links rot. A lay-flat book on a shelf is the only version of your wedding that will still open in 2055 without anybody's password.
Once a season
Four letters a year, sent the week the weather turns: what is worth knowing about photographing a wedding in that season, and the two or three frames I could not stop looking at. Write and say so, and you will be on it.
Bookings
Tell me about your day,
and where the light will beHalf an hour, no charge, at the studio in East Legon or on a call. I take about thirty weddings a year and one a day, so the earlier you write the more likely your Saturday is still open.
