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Chile — clearing by four, golden hour holding late. Ideal light.
The Elopement Gazette
Arman Arai’s journal of marriages made quietly · Est. MMXXVI
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Chile Elopement Photographer

The granite towers of Torres del Paine at sunrise and the crystal night sky of the Atacama, with the trekking, the desert transfers, and the symbolic ceremony all handled end to end.

You are looking for a Chile elopement photographer.

I want to tell you what actually makes a day here work, and it is not the camera.

These frames are earned on Patagonian trails and under a desert sky at altitude, and the photographs were never the hard part. The expedition was.

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Couple embracing during their elopement in a dramatic mountain landscape with peaks behind them
Photograph — Chile · the picture moves
Readers are advised the subjects may wander out of frame.
The two Chiles

The three granite towers of Torres del Paine reflected at sunrise, and the otherworldly Atacama under the clearest sky on the planet: two of the most extraordinary landscapes on the continent, and no photographic cliche anywhere in them.

Couple below the granite towers of Torres del Paine at sunrise in Chile
The towers of Torres del Paine at sunrise, the Atacama under the clearest sky on earth: two extraordinary landscapes, with no cliche anywhere because almost no one shoots elopements here. — stationary
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The two Chiles

Couple below the granite towers of Torres del Paine at sunrise in Chile
The towers of Torres del Paine at sunrise, the Atacama under the clearest sky on earth: two extraordinary landscapes, with no cliche anywhere because almost no one shoots elopements here. — stationary

The three granite towers of Torres del Paine reflected at sunrise, and the otherworldly Atacama under the clearest sky on the planet: two of the most extraordinary landscapes on the continent, and no photographic cliche anywhere in them.

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What actually makes it work

It is carrying gear on a five-hour trail, reading the Patagonian wind, timing the desert sky to the new moon, handling the park access, and coordinating the symbolic ceremony. I do all of it, and both photograph and film the days.

Twelve years and 240+ couples in, this is among the wildest elopements I shoot, and having it handled end to end is the only way it works.

See the tiers, all photo and video, on one page →

Couple in the wild Chilean landscape at golden hour
The expedition is planned, the access is handled, and photography and videography are both included, always. Nothing about the trekking or desert logistics lands on you. — stationary
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