About

A small studio with a long memory.

Aarav Nair
Aarav Nair · Founder & Lead Photographer

Aarav grew up in a coastal town in Kerala, where the light changed three times a day and nobody owned a camera. He photographed his first wedding at nineteen on a borrowed Pentax — for a meal and a tank of petrol. The bride cried when she saw the prints. He hasn't stopped since.

Dreams began in 2014 as a single-room studio above a tailor's shop in Bengaluru. Today it is a quiet collective of seven photographers, three filmmakers and one teacher — the same person who started it. The work has lived in Vogue India, on the wall at Cannes Lions, and on a thousand bedside tables.

We don't take more than thirty weddings a year. We don't promise virality. We promise that the morning your daughter is born, you will reach for the album we made on the day you married — and the light in it will still feel honest.

Awards
  • Fearless Photographers — 12×
  • Junebug Best of the Best — 2024
  • WPPI Print Silver — 2023
  • Cannes Lions Shortlist — 2025
Published
  • Vogue India
  • Condé Nast Traveller
  • Asian Photography
  • British Journal of Photography

"The camera is an excuse. The real work is paying attention."

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