From College Dropout to Celebrity Wedding Photographer: The Grand Lens Story
How a small-town photographer built one of the city's most sought-after wedding studios
When Arjun Mehta walked out of his engineering college in his final year, everyone told him he was making the biggest mistake of his life. Twelve years later, the founder of The Grand Lens Studio has photographed more than 500 weddings, including some of the most talked-about celebrity ceremonies of the season.
What sets the studio apart, clients say, is its documentary style. Instead of staged portraits, the team captures the in-between moments: a father adjusting his daughter’s dupatta, cousins rehearsing a dance in the corridor, grandmothers whispering blessings. That approach has earned the studio three national photography awards and a waiting list that now stretches across two wedding seasons.
The journey was not always glamorous. The studio began in a single rented room with one borrowed camera. For the first two years, Arjun edited every frame himself, often working through the night after shooting all day. Today, The Grand Lens Studio employs a team of eighteen photographers, cinematographers and editors, and has expanded into destination weddings across India and abroad.
