What It's Like to Photograph Mark Zuckerberg's Wedding

Mark Zuckerberg announced his wedding exactly as you’d expect: with a Facebook status update. The post-nuptial snapshot of him and his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, instantly went viral, with more than 1 million likes and hundreds of comments. Details of the wedding trickled out over the next few hours, including the identity of the photographer behind the iconic shot: 31-year-old Brooklyn-based artist Noah Kalina.

“We shot immediately after the ceremony,” Kalina explains by e-mail. “I wanted an image that would show something clean, beautiful, and free of contrivance.”