The EastcorePhotojournalists
Toronto wedding photojournalists

How do you want to remember your wedding day?

Weddings captured in the style of classic street photography. Real moments, told from the inside.

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Our story

A small team of wedding photojournalists.

The Eastcore is a small team of Toronto wedding photojournalists with decades of combined experience and international recognition for our work. You've seen black and white street photography before, even if you've never thought of it that way. Real people, real moments, captured by someone who knew when to press the shutter.

We found our style by looking back at our early work and noticing which weddings still held up. They weren't the ones with the trendiest poses. They were the ones where we'd captured the day as it actually unfolded. The glance, the laugh, the small unscripted moment that said more about the couple than any portrait could. That's what we chase now, on every wedding we shoot.

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↓Wedding photojournalism

Genuine moments over posed ones, so your day feels like you.

 ↓The Feel Reel™

A cinematic highlight film of your day, captured by your photographers.

 ↓Our Film Look, and full colour

Bespoke black and white based on old Hollywood cinema film. Every image in full colour too.

Wedding photojournalism

Your wedding day should feel effortless. A chance to just be yourselves, not to perform.

Be yourselves

We focus on genuine moments over posed ones, capturing real laughter, connection, and all the in-between glances that make your day feel like you.

Told from the inside

By engaging naturally and being part of the celebration, we tell the story from the inside. Not as bystanders, but as people who shared the experience with you.

Nothing missed

You'll still get those important family and group photos, as well as all the details and staple shots, captured in a way that feels authentic and relaxed.

Fun fact: many of the photographs in our portfolio are from weddings up to 15 years ago. Can you tell which?View more wedding work →

The Feel Reel™

A cinematic wedding film, without hiring a videographer.

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Stills shown here. Press play for the 2025 Feel Reels.

The Feel Reel™ is a complimentary highlight video created from video clips captured by our photographers. You get a cinematic keepsake of your day without the footprint, expense, or distraction of a full video team.

A decade on, we're still the only team offering it, which is why the name is trademarked. It's not an upgrade or an add-on. It's just how we cover a wedding when there are two of us covering it.

  1. Your photographers capture short video clips while they photograph your day.
  2. We edit them into a cinematic highlight film, set to music.
  3. One team, one eye, and a film at the end of it. No video crew, no second invoice.

Our Film Look

Bespoke black and white, based on old Hollywood cinema film.

We're very particular about our signature black-and-white Film Look. It's a faithful emulation of Eastman Double-X, the legendary Hollywood cinema film that photographers have long borrowed for stills because it has a certain magic usually reserved for the big screen.

No app or editing platform could reproduce that look convincingly, so we built our own from the ground up. Years of testing against the real film, side by side, distilled into a bespoke process you won't find anywhere else.

The result is a black and white that doesn't look like a filter. It looks like film, because that's what it's modelled on.

Eastman Double-X35mm cinema negativeEmulated in-house
The Eastcore Film Look tool: a black-and-white wedding photograph with sliders for dust, scratches, bloom, grain, fade and vignette, and a strip of 22 frames along the bottom The Eastcore's bespoke Film Look tool, built in-house
Two photographs side by side: one scanned from real film, one made with the Eastcore Film Look Real film, scannedOur Film Look

One half is real film, scanned. The other is our Film Look. Take the loupe to the grain.

Colour included · every image

Artful monochrome.
Authentic colour.

A couple holding hands in front of a brightly painted mural, black and white Film Look The same photograph in true colour Film LookTrue colour

Every image is delivered in full colour, along with our signature black-and-white Film Look. Our colour editing is true to colour. No filters, no faded washes, no overdone burnt warm toning. Nothing that's going to look dated in a few years. Every image is carefully edited and colour-corrected so the day looks like the day.

You get both versions of every photo. Not one or the other.

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Optional Our books

Your wedding day, presented in style.

Handmade in Italy and built to last, and delivered in its own presentation box. You choose the images, the cover material and the colour. We handle the design, mixing black-and-white and colour spreads throughout. Books are optional: add one in the package builder.

STEPHANIE + AMADEUSZ
Handmade in Italy
16 IN
  • 16 × 12 in closed
  • 50 flush-mount pages
  • Custom cover + presentation box
Groomsmen getting ready together before the ceremony

On the wedding day

Wedding photojournalism isn't simply about being “just candid”.

It's your day, and we want that to be the story we tell, not just a collection of poses. The staples still matter. You'll get your family photos, your group shots, and all the detail frames every wedding needs. We just want the people in them to feel like themselves.

For bridal party photos, we'll often build a small event around it: a walk around the block with a coffee stop, ducking into a nearby pub for a drink. If you'd prefer a more traditional session, we're happy to do that too.

Editorial photography ages with the trends it borrows from. Real moments don't.

Roxy and Mike laughing on a Toronto street during their engagement session

Engagement sessions

The best way to get comfortable before the day.

An optional, relaxed shoot somewhere in the GTA with your primary photographer. By the time the wedding rolls around, the rhythm of working together already feels familiar.

Sessions usually run about 1.5 to 2 hours on a weekday evening, with 100 to 200 images delivered within a week.

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Journal

Real Toronto weddings, engagements and stories.

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The Eastcore package builder Prices

No presets.
No hidden prices.

You just want to see a photographer's rates, but every site makes you reach out, only to find that none of their preset packages actually fit your day. We did away with presets entirely. Build the package you want and get an instant estimate right here.

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Tell us a little about your day. We'll get back to you to set up a phone or video call.

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