ABOUT ME

Im ZubairMalik Founder of Portraithati & a husband to the beautiful wife BalkisRedhuan

We are thankful that our work allows us to pursue our passions for photography and let’s us travel to unique places to connect, witness and document the many different ways people come together to celebrate. 

Overall, we view each wedding as a collaboration with our couples. We don’t see ourselves as a distant observer or documentarian, focusing only what’s in front of us – we are capturing how we feel about it, as well. We tell our couples that when they’re looking back on their photographs we want them to see a genuine depiction of who they are. For that reason, we never ask of my couples anything that isn’t honest. We are interested only in real smiles, sincere expressions, unprompted emotions. We feel that is what gives our photos the poetic simplicity they’re known for.

It is also what has led us to some of our all-time favourite images. We love moments when people are truly able to let down their guard and let go of their inhibitions. Our intention with every shoot is to help create a sincere and intimate space where that can happen – where our couples can be themselves even amongst the chaos and anxiety of a wedding. It’s a privilege to create images that families will keep forever. Above anything and everything else, we want them to look at their photographs and remember, even decades down the line, the joy and love they felt on that day. We want to create photographs that matter.