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275+ Unique Portrait Ideas of Engagement Photography with Art Murals, Paintings, and Graffiti

October 31, 2021 - Get inspired by graffiti engagement sessions. Have your portrait taken in front of wall art and mural backgrounds for artistic and creative pre-wedding portraits. Get ideas for your modern photoshoot using bold designs, exciting color palettes, and urban sessions with graffiti from top photographers of the Wedding Photojournalist Association. If you want your couple portraits to stand out from the rest, share your painted backdrop ideas with a WPJA photographer who will help you achieve your desires.

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Xiaoye Sun

Denver, CO Pre-Wedding Portraits | A couple sharing a moment in front of a beautiful art mural in downtown Denver for their urban engagement session.

Trent Gillespie

New York Engagement Photography Session for this couple seeking colors and action

Mantas Kubilinskas

Couple Engagement Photo Session | An engaged couple in love is kissing in Florence

Laura Barbera

Building artwork couple engagement photography at River North, Denver, Colorado, the newly engaged couple share a giggle in the reflection of a window on a graffiti wall

Lucy Schultz

Couple kiss in front of a graffiti wall on Arthur Verona street in Bucharest during prewedding portrait session.

Petrica Tanase

Couple silhouette with queen mural | MN engagement photographer

Penny McCoy

Crystal City, VA engagement photo session in black and white | A couple laughs together in front of a black and white striped window covering.

Brittany Diliberto

BG engagement photo shoot of a couple nuzzling with grafitti as their backdrop in Sofia, Bulgaria

Ivelina Cholakova

Brooklyn New York Engagement Photographer - "Saw the graffiti and the light and boom."

Miguel Gonzalez

Baltimore Couple Photo Session | Love in sign language

Kathleen Ricker

True Love Engagement Portrait Session in Kilkenny, Ireland displaying a couple making a choice between lot of pubs but this one was made to measure

Stefano Ferrier

Pomorskie pre-wedding engagement pictures of a couple on fire escape of a graffiti painted building | Poland portrait shoot

Raphael Newman

Old City Philadelphia Photographer: I love graffiti and murals. I use them and flashed this. Engagement Photography on the streets.

Miguel Gonzalez

Pre-wedding portrait photographer - Downtown Los Angeles...A city romance

Darren Hendry

London engagement shoot with street art - Yellow Hearts, with red and purple - Engagement Photographer

Jonny Barratt

Slovenia pre wedding and engagement photography in Volosko, Croatia with a dog and some cool graffiti

Goran Vadlja Kamenjašević

Hollywood, California engagement portraits in the hills | Photographer spots a drawing on the rock while the couple has fun on the other side.

Annie Bang

Engagement Photography Session | Back lighted image in Key West

Julie Ambos

Ceparana Bolano couple engagement pic session Underground against the wall art graffiti

Matteo Originale

This photo of a couple kissing below an advertisement of a couple kissing was designed by a Naples engagement photographer in Milano

Federica Ariemma

Phuket Pre Wedding Photoshoot in a Fine Art Style against a pink lit wall with painted art

Liam Collard

Paris environmental couple pre wedding image session with a kiss and a dip

Bertrand Roguet

Los Angeles, California portrait e-session of a couple wandering around the Arts District in DTLA

Darren Hendry

New Zealand engaged Couple in front of Graffiti Wall in Christchurch City

Liz Robson

Los Angeles, California — Planetarium Engagement Portrait Session in the Galaxy

Tanya Parada

CA engagement photoshoot & pre-wedding session from Oakland, California with a Quick stop at Graffiti Alley

Tyler Vu

National Gallery of Art East Wing pre-wedding portrait session - A couple imitates the sculpture nearby

Brittany Diliberto

Couple kissing in Wynwood, Miami, FL - Engagement Photography with Pink Wall Mural

Lukas Guillaume

Capitol Hill, Washington DC Fine Art Engagement Session with The couple laughing at the Eastern Market

Natasha Lamalle

True Love Engagement Picture Session in Oldetown, Arvada showing a couple kissing in a nook between vendors and butterfly graffiti

Matt Wilson

A silhouette with lighting technique photoshoot during pre wedding portrait session in Sentosa, Singapore

Vu Nguyen

L'Aquila - Abruzzo - Italy Engagement Session with colorful painted wall.

Paolo Ferrera

Fun couple pose beside an art poster for their engagement portrait session

Isabelle Bazin

Art Kiss - Massachusetts Engagement Photo behind the hat

Hugue-Robert Marsan

Engaged Couples Photographer | Gettysburg, PA - Silhouette of a couple inside of a hot air balloon

Scott Josuweit

Majic Forest, Cape Town Fine Art Pre Wedding Portrait created as The happy couple shares a laugh in the beautiful green forest

Christelle Rall

San Francisco bride and groom to be, posing for a pre-wedding engagement photo shoot with A loving kiss before a city art mural

Chris Shum

Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY Engagement photography of couple running

Tim D. Yun

Seviervile, TN mini urban pic shoot before the wedding day with A beautiful dip in front of a city mural

Bryan Aleman

Lima prewedding portrait of a couple with a mural as their backdrop | Peru wedding engagement

Jamil Valle

Outdoor Bourges couple engagement photography portrait with a trash dance

Bertrand Roguet

Crystal Palace Engagement Photo Session with Couple

Emre Nesli

Milano, Italy Fine Art, Black and White Pre Wedding Portrait with Wall Mural.

Michela Bocciarelli

Sunset engagement portrait session with blue skies in Almería

Eduardo Blanco

Boituva mini couple photo session before the wedding day with a solo hot air balloon taking flight behind them

Eric Corbacho

Tunel Guajataca engagement photography of a couple against a sealife mural in Isabela, Puerto Rico

Alexis Rodriguez Montalvo

Chicago Illinois Engagement Photo - ping tom park couple walking in front of a mural

Victoria Sprung

Kari Bellamy

Los Angeles environmental engagement e-session of couple getting cozy in the Arts District

Darren Hendry

Athens, Greece Engagement Photos - Couple looking each other in front a big Batman mural

Orçun Yalçın

England wedding photographer engagement portrait of a couple with graffiti wall and dog / walker passing by | Devon pre-wedding pictures

Anthony Lyons

pre-wedding photoshoot in Quebec - Canada Engagement Photographer

Adeline Leonti

Chicago mini urban pic shoot before the wedding day with a couple sitting on a truck loading dock and playing

Edward Ciesielski

Romance in an antediluvian spot, 7th century rock complex - Mahabalipuram Engagement Portrait

Sujith Kumar

Color between them. | Valladolid Engagement Photograph in Red

Marcos Rodriguez Pedrosa

Old San Juan, PR environmental engagement e-session for a Couple in front of a very popular photo location

Alexis Rodriguez Montalvo

Paris France Engagement Photography Session with Couple and Rings

Cedric Derbaise

Kari Bellamy

Turkey bride and groom to be, relaxing for a Cappadocia pre-wedding engagement session lying down on the rocks

Ufuk Sarisen

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