I’m not looking for perfection.
I’m looking for the intersection of light and truth. The places where a photograph stops being evidence of what happened and starts to feel like the way it felt to be there.
Before the weddings, the assignments and the places, there was simply the habit of looking closely.
A wedding is not something to polish.
Weddings are often described as perfect. But anyone who has stood inside one knows that isn’t true.
A wedding is movement. Nerves. Family history. Relief. Silence before vows. Laughter that erupts without warning.
I’m not there to manufacture a smoother version of it. I’m there to witness it.
Both matter.
Pay attention long enough and something reveals itself.
That is usually where the photograph begins.
Three things I keep returning to.
The style changes with the place and the people. These three ideas don’t.
Presence
Knowing when not to interfere.
Most of the photographs I care about happen because nobody was asked to create them. I watch the room, the relationships, the changes in energy and the things happening just outside the obvious moment. The hug matters. So do the four seconds after the hug.
Direction, when it helps
Documentary doesn’t mean careless.
You shouldn’t need to know what to do with your hands or wonder where to stand. When direction makes something easier, I’ll give it. When the moment is already happening, I won’t interrupt it simply because I could make the composition cleaner.
Discernment
Not everything needs a photograph.
Eighteen years of doing this has taught me that photography is as much about deciding when not to press the shutter as when to press it. Digital, 35mm, medium format, Super 8. The tool changes. The question doesn’t: does this deserve to be remembered?
“Chris was such a calm and genuinely nice presence on the wedding day, which mattered a lot because we had some pretty challenging conditions with weather and logistics.”Kelsey & Tucker
I’m Christopher.
I photograph weddings because they contain almost everything that first drew me to photography: people, relationships, anticipation, unpredictability, beauty and the strange little moments that happen when nobody thinks they’re being watched.
I’ve been doing this for more than 18 years, primarily in Costa Rica and now increasingly across Europe from Barcelona.
Most of the couples I photograph have travelled a long way to get married somewhere that means something to them. They’re navigating another country, another climate, unfamiliar distances and often an entirely different rhythm.
So the work begins before I pick up the camera. Part of my job is helping make the unfamiliar feel manageable.
Costa Rica · Barcelona · Worldwide
Weddings are part of how I see.
My background is in documentary, photojournalism and editorial photography.
I studied documentary photography through an intensive programme run by Magnum Photos with the London College of Communication, part of University of the Arts London.
Later I was selected for the VII Photo Masterclass in Arles, led by Stefano De Luigi and Maciek Nabrdalik.
Those experiences didn’t teach me a wedding style. They sharpened the thing I use at every wedding: patience. The photograph worth keeping is often the one just after the moment everyone is watching.
The practice behind the instinct.
Training matters to me because it changes how you pay attention, not because it gives you another line for a biography.
Photography degree · UTN
Formal photographic training before weddings became the centre of the work.
Magnum Photos / LCC
Intensive documentary photography programme with London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
VII Photo Masterclass · Arles
Selected for the sixth masterclass, led by Stefano De Luigi and Maciek Nabrdalik.
Weddings, people and places
More than 300 couples photographed across Costa Rica and destination events abroad.
The work has travelled too.
The New York Times
Wedding and elopement feature.
The Times
Costa Rica travel photography with Giles Coren and his family.
Iberia · Ronda
Costa Rican coffee harvest coverage.
HuffPost
Elopement story featuring Crissorama photography.
Fearless Photographers
Recognized among wedding photographers working in Costa Rica.
ISPWP
International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers.
Two places. One family.
I split my life between Costa Rica and Barcelona.
I’m married to a Catalan environmental educator, and together we’re raising our daughter between languages, cultures and two places we love.
Becoming a husband and a father changed the way I understand photographs. Family pictures that once seemed ordinary become incredibly important with time.
That probably explains why I pay so much attention to the people around the couple at a wedding. One day, those photographs are going to belong to them too.
There are photographs that reassure.
And there are photographs that reveal.
Digital. 35mm. Medium format. Super 8.
I don’t use film because it looks nostalgic.
It changes the way I photograph.
A roll has limits. Medium format slows everything down. Super 8 records movement imperfectly. Each asks me to pay attention differently.
The medium should follow the moment, not the other way around.
Costa Rica Wedding Photographer
The Simple
Elegance of
Being in Love
Documentary and editorial destination wedding photography for couples who want to feel their day, not perform it.
18 Years Experience · 300+ Couples · Previews Within 72 Hours · Travel Fees included Across Costa Rica & Barcelona
Photographs that feel lived, not staged.
Recognized by
SELECTED FRAGMENTS
Weddings remembered in fragments.
The gestures, weather, movement and small moments that make a celebration feel like itself.
01 / THE APPROACH
You should remember the people, not the posing.
I’m Christopher Alga, the photographer behind Crissorama. I photograph destination weddings across Costa Rica and Barcelona with an editorial & documentary photography approach that’s calm, observant, and gently directed when needed.
You don’t need to know how to pose or spend your wedding day performing for a camera. I’ll step in when direction helps, and disappear when the moment matters more than the photograph.
Documentary instinct. Editorial restraint.
A Wedding Archive,
not just coverage.
I don’t see a wedding as a set number of hours to photograph. I see it as a story to preserve.
The people, the voices, the music, the landscape, the unexpected moments, the things you touched, kept, heard and felt.
I bring digital photography, analog film, Super 8, audio, motion and physical keepsakes together to create something bigger than a wedding gallery: your wedding archive.
Some stories become photographs. Some become films. Some live in sound, grain, movement and objects.
The goal isn’t to make your wedding look perfect. It’s to make sure you can remember what it felt like.
02 / THE UNPLANNED
The part you couldn’t plan.
Kelsey and Colin planned every detail, but they didn’t plan for the sudden breeze that swept her veil just as he turned around. That unguarded wonder became their favorite image. I find the moments you didn’t plan, wherever your story takes you.
03 / THE EXPERIENCE
Transparent pricing.
No hidden travel fees.
Most couples spend $3,500–$5,000 for comprehensive wedding coverage. Travel anywhere in Costa Rica is included, with previews within 72 hours, full printing rights and a carefully backed-up archive.
How we plan together.
Vibe call. We align on what matters to you.
Timeline guidance. We protect the best light without letting photography run the day.
The celebration. You stay present. I document what unfolds.
IN THEIR WORDS
“Neither of us is very comfortable in front of a camera, but Christopher made sure we didn’t feel like we were posing.”
— Elle & Omesh
People move differently when the landscape becomes part of the day.
04 / A SENSE OF PLACE
Look closer.
Costa Rica isn’t just the backdrop. It changes the story.
The coast changes the light. Rain changes the rhythm. Heat pulls dinner outside. Wind moves a veil before anyone can arrange it. In the rainforest, people gather closer; by the ocean, everything opens up.
After years photographing weddings across the country, I plan around those differences rather than trying to make every place behave the same way.
What are you planning?
Start with the kind of story you’re here for.
Weddings
Full days and multi-day celebrations.
Elopements
Intentional days with room to explore.
Proposals
Quietly planned, genuinely surprising.
Families
Vacations, reunions and growing years.
05 / FILM & MEMORY
Film, texture, and the beauty of imperfection.
I use 35mm, medium format and Super 8 not only for nostalgia, but because each medium remembers differently.
A digital frame catches the instant. Film slows the eye. Super 8 lets movement, grain and sound carry what a still photograph cannot.
Not perfected. Remembered.
STILL → STILL → STILL → MOVEMENT / SUPER 8
06 / COMPLETE STORIES
Selected wedding stories.
A photograph can hold a moment. A full gallery shows what happened before it, what came after, and how the whole day moved.
AND THEN, SOMEHOW, THE DAY IS OVER.
What remains is how it felt.
THE NEXT CHAPTER
Tell me what you’re imagining.
A wedding in the rainforest, a few days with everyone you love, or something you haven’t quite figured out yet. Tell me what you know so far. I’ll read your message personally and help you take the next step.