Here Comes the Bride [Rf Photo of the Day]

Photo © Gustavo Franco Photography

Brazilian photographer Gustavo Franco has been documenting small weddings in southern Brazil for some time now, he says, and all of them take place in small towns, where “the lights of the churches are not the most perfect in the world,” but they’ve let him witness some truly touching scenes.

“Since everybody knows each other in these small towns, every time they lose someone, everybody is affected,” Franco explains. “There’s always a very strong feeling for the oldest people in the place. The bride told me that she wanted an important photograph together with the oldest person in the church.”

The photographer studied a Neoclassical painting by French painter Jacques-Louis David (“La mort de Socrate,” created in 1787), a few days before this wedding, and emulated it here to give a bigger picture of the bride and her wedding party. The story unfolds as your eye travels across the frame, made even more interesting by the way Franco altered the colors in post.

[Shot with a Canon 5D Mark III and Sigma 50mm f/1.4 lens.]

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