Lebanese Photographer Georges Chamoun Joins the 2025 DWP Insider Powerlist: Top 50 Wedding Photographers Worldwide

Maronite News - DWP Insider released its Photographer Powerlist for Asia Pacific, India, the Middle East & Africa, a curated showcase of the most inspiring destination wedding photographers redefining modern visual storytelling. More than just a list, it’s a celebration of how artistry, empathy, and vision can turn a single frame into a lifetime memory.

From India’s royal palaces to Lebanon’s sun-kissed shores, each photographer featured carries a signature style, a philosophy, and a human story. The feature honors those who go beyond documentation — those who make us feel the moment, not just see it.

The Story behind the Powerlist

The Powerlist isn’t a contest but a tribute to consistency, creativity, and courage. It highlights photographers whose work transcends trends, blending cinematic mastery with human warmth. Every profile in the collection explores not only their images but the personalities behind them — their inspirations, travels, and philosophies that make their art unmistakable.

In a region where destination weddings weave cultures together, these artists stand as storytellers of love, time, and place. Each chosen name represents a voice that has shaped how couples remember the most intimate day of their lives.

Georges Chamoun: The Poet of the Unscripted Moment

Among these names, Georges Chamoun, the Lebanese-born photographer and co-founder of Candid Image Beirut, shines with quiet authenticity. Since 1999, Chamoun has been capturing weddings around the world, blending intuition and observation to portray the raw beauty of love. His lens doesn’t seek perfection — it seeks truth.

In 2003, he launched Candid Image with the belief that the most powerful photographs are the genuine ones, not the posed. His approach quickly became a movement, inspiring a generation of photographers across the Middle East to embrace spontaneity over staging.

One of his most emblematic images, taken before the Colosseum in Rome, encapsulates his philosophy: a bride caught mid-motion, back to the camera, as if running freely toward her future. The frame juxtaposes history and emotion, stillness and motion — a dialogue between past and present. “It’s more than a wedding photo,” he says. “It’s storytelling.”

Beyond the Camera

What makes Chamoun’s work exceptional is his emotional intelligence. Beyond the lens, he’s an observer of life — someone who listens, reflects, and finds poetry in the ordinary. He believes that the soul of photography lies not in technical precision but in human connection.

His favorite destinations — Lebanon, Lake Como, Paris, the Gulf, and Switzerland — mirror his eclectic sensibility: a blend of elegance, heritage, and light. Whether in the warmth of Byblos, the luxury of Dubai, or the romance of Paris, Chamoun finds the same universal truth — love, in its most unguarded form.

Each frame he captures carries emotion as its compass. As he describes it: “A perfect photo isn’t technically flawless. It’s emotionally true.”

About Georges Chamoun

Georges Chamoun is a candid-style wedding photographer with a passion for capturing real, unscripted moments that tell honest love stories. Since 1999, he has photographed weddings worldwide, drawn to the fleeting beauty that makes each celebration unique.

In 2003, he co-founded Candid Image Beirut, a multimedia production house built on the belief that authenticity outlives trends. In 2020, the brand expanded to Dubai, bringing the same documentary vision to a wider audience.

Beyond photography, Georges is a storyteller, traveler, and observer who finds inspiration in quiet moments and genuine human connection. His work, rooted in emotion and truth, continues to redefine how love is seen — and felt — through the lens.