Rowan Hayes

I shoot weddings and portraits the way I learned to shoot newsrooms — quietly, mostly from the side, looking for the second after the obvious one. I trained at the University of Oregon, spent four years on staff at a regional daily, and started photographing weddings full-time in 2021 because the work felt like the same work: paying attention to people on a day that matters. I'm based in Portland, shoot mostly across Oregon and Washington, and travel with both cameras in a beat-up canvas bag I refuse to replace. If you're somewhere on the spectrum from 'we hate posing' to 'we don't know what we want yet,' you're probably in the right place. Write me — tell me about the day. I read everything that comes in.