I make pictures that ask to be kept.

I'm Shomen — a wedding photographer based in Chittagong, Bangladesh, working across the country and beyond. For over four years I've followed couples through the hours of their wedding day with the same patience a portrait painter brings to a single face.

My work lives somewhere between editorial and documentary: composed when composition serves the moment, invisible when it does not. I'm drawn to the quiet things — a held breath before the vows, a parent's hand on a shoulder, the way light falls through a doorway at the exact right hour.

I take on a deliberately small calendar each year. It is the only way I know to make work that still feels like a love letter, not a deliverable.