Camille & Arthur
Château de Villette
Île-de-France
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Pentax 67 · Portra 400
Fine art film photography — Paris · Loire · Côte d’Azur
Maison Odile
Weddings photographed on medium format film, for couples who would rather have forty perfect prints than four thousand files.
Plate I — Inès, Château de la Mothe, 2025
I — Philosophy
“On film, by hand, and never in a hurry.”
Maison Odile was founded in 2011 by Odile Marchand, a former fashion assistant who fell in love with the slowness of medium format. Every wedding is photographed by Odile herself, with one assistant and never more than eighteen rolls.
We work quietly, mostly in natural light, and we edit as a printer would: choosing, not collecting. What you receive is a gallery to keep and a box of hand-made prints to hold — the way your grandparents’ photographs still are.
— Odile Marchand
II — Portfolio
Recent commissions
A selection from the last two seasons. Full galleries are shared privately, on request.
Hélène & James
Pont de Bir-Hakeim
Paris
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Contax 645 · Portra 160
Margaux
Hôtel Particulier
Paris VII
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Leica M6 · Ilford HP5
Sophie & Laurent
Les Bords de Saône
Lyon
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Contax 645 · Portra 400
Inès
Château de la Mothe
Loire Valley
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Pentax 67 · Ilford HP5
Charlotte & Rémi
Villa Ephrussi
Côte d’Azur
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Contax 645 · Portra 800
The Loire, in June
Some places deserve to be photographed slowly.
Château de Chenonceau gardens · Plate XII
III — On film
Why we still shoot film.
Film forgives skin, holds white silk without losing it and renders greenery the colour you remember. It also asks us to slow down — every frame is a decision, and you can feel that in the photographs.
Medium format
Contax 645 & Pentax 67
Kodak Portra 160 · 400 · 800
Developed by hand in Montreuil
Black & white
Leica M6, 35mm
Ilford HP5, pushed one stop
Fibre prints from our darkroom
As seen in
La Mariée Moderne
Cahiers du Mariage
Noces
Atelier Blanc
Le Petit Livre Blanc
IV — Collections
Three ways to begin.
Each collection includes Odile and one assistant, film, development, a private gallery and a linen box of hand-made prints.
Six hours
La Cérémonie
€7,500
Ceremony, portraits & dinner
Ten rolls of medium format
Twenty-five fine art prints
Le plus demandé · Ten hours
La Journée
€11,000
Preparations to first dance
Eighteen rolls, colour & black and white
Forty prints & a linen album
Two days
Le Week-end
€16,500
Rehearsal dinner & wedding day
Twenty-eight rolls, two cameras
Heirloom album & parent books
“Odile was barely there, and yet she saw everything. When the box of prints arrived, my mother cried before she had opened the second envelope.”
Camille & Arthur — Château de Villette
V — Inquire
Write to us.
We accept twenty commissions each year, in France and occasionally beyond. Tell us your date, your venue and a little about the two of you.
or telephone the atelier — +33 1 00 00 00 00