About Samir Faza · Copenhagen Film Wedding Photographer Shooting Rolleiflex Medium Format
Palestinian-American in Copenhagen.
I picked up a Rolleiflex 3.5F nearly a decade ago and never put it down. It's a twin-lens reflex from 1959, mechanical to the last screw, with no autofocus, no light meter, no second chances. Therefore, I've grown to appreciate the quality of slowness and its impact on capturing honest joy in couples.
I grew up in Southern California to Palestinian immigrants and have been living in Copenhagen since 2024. Photography is my passion and where I find flow in the inspiring smiles I like to draw out in others.
Rolleiflex 3.5F.
A twin-lens reflex with a Carl Zeiss Planar f/3.5 lens. Square 6×6 negatives — twelve to a roll of 120 film.
For colour I shoot the Kodak Portra family — Portra 160, 400, and 800 depending on the light. For black & white I shoot Kodak T-Max 100 and Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100.
Every roll is developed and scanned by hand at Silver Lab in Copenhagen, Scandinavia's largest fully-operational analogue photo lab. Their craftsmanship is half the reason these photographs look the way they do.
Why one camera, one set of stocks? Because consistency is its own kind of style. Every photograph in your gallery will share the same look — the same depth, the same softness, the same square frame — whether it's from your getting-ready or the last dance.
