Carr & Senteno

A decade of documenting real life and modern love: Rachel Carr and Christopher Senteno are wedding photographers from London and Los Angeles. If you believe that weddings should be joyous, real feelings are beautiful and life is worth celebrating, we’d love to collaborate: you eat the cake, we’ll make it art.

Editorial wedding photography in London, Los Angeles and beyond: We met in California shooting music festivals, and then two of our most creative friends got married and were our very first clients: they didn’t want “wedding photographers” so they hired us instead (and Future Islands were the wedding band). We’ve been shooting for artists, musicians, writers, designers, hotel lovers, jet-setters and other creative, stylish, funny, brilliant people ever since. We split our time between our HQs in Los Angeles and London but love destination weddings too. Our passports are always at the ready and our camera bags are always packed.

Like real life, but better: Our photography is rooted in authenticity, but pushed a little towards cinematic and pulled a little into art. Clients love our 35mm shots, but often think our digital shots are film, too. Nothing is fake – we love real people, real skin and real emotions – but everything’s elevated. The end result is a gallery that looks like stills from a film or spreads from a magazine, starring you.

We like: Modern love, real life, main characters. Cecilie Bahnsen, Rodarte, Simone Rocha. Desert landscapes, city skylines, exquisite hotels. Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson, whatever’s playing on the seat-back aeroplane TV while we’re half asleep somewhere over the Atlantic. Brutalist architecture and Baroque interiors. Moodboards and playlists. International love affairs. Perfume! Happy tears, ugly crying, bad behaviour, the good life.