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

April 17, 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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Couple kissing in Wynwood, Miami, FL - Fine Art Mural Engagement Shoot

Lukas Guillaume

AZ pre wedding and engagement photography of a couple in front of a mural in Downtown Phoenix

Laura Segall

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

Laura Barbera

Xiaoye Sun

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

Vu Nguyen

apple store union square portrait session - California Engagement Photographer

Ian Chin

Engagement Photography for Seattle, Washington - Portrait of a couple standing next to building

Ron Storer

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

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

Lukas Guillaume

engagement shoot at Cuba-Havana with couple walking the streets

Ufuk Sarisen

Annapolis Maryland engaged couple sitting for a portrait Under the Wisteria Wall

Kathleen Ricker

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

Raphael Newman

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

Isabelle Bazin

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

Petrica Tanase

Engagement Photos from Atlanta - Image contains: couple, dip, portrait

Thanh Trung

Minneapolis, Minnesota Couple Engagement Portrait in front of painted mural

Penny McCoy

Montreal, Quebec Engagement photo of couple holding hands and sitting on front steps

Esther Gibbons

This photo of a couple kissing in front of a wall with graffiti was captured by a Ceparana engagement photographer

Matteo Originale

Making the most of DTLA and it's eclectic textures with a couple portrait session in Downtown Los Angeles, California

Darren Hendry

Engagement Photos from Arthur Verona Street - couple session on the streets of Bucharest

Petrica Tanase

China wedding photographer engagement portrait of a couple with cartoon painted mural | Fujian pre-wedding pictures

Vinci Wang

Spain Engagement Photographer. Street art wall mural portrait with a small dog in a red jacket.

Miguel Onieva

Engagement Photography for YUN NAN - Couple Take shelter from rain

Asaph Xu

England street art engagement image from London

Ashley Davenport

Baltimore Maryland engagment photography | This couple is So Happy!

Kathleen Ricker

Whitstable, Kent UK Pre-wedding shoot with dog!

Matilda Delves

Burano, Venezia, Italy Tenderness engagement couple portrait with colorful artwork

Lisa Pacor

Ceparana Love engagement on the streets with graffiti wall art

Matteo Originale

Tiong Bahru Estate, Singapore Couple Portraits | Daydreaming at the wall murals that adorn the neighborhood

Charles Sng

Street art wedding engagement photography in Ho Chi Minh by Vietnam engagement photographers

Khoi Le

Crystal City, VA A couple jumps enthusiastically in front of a blue toned mural. Engagement photo session with fine art.

Brittany Diliberto

Milton, Ontario engagement photo shoot | The Mural on the wall and the couple under an umbrella

Lori Anne Crewe

Shoreditch, London Graffiti love engagement portrait - Photography with wall art murals.

Annamarie Stepney

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

Sujith Kumar

Hvězdárna a Planetárium Brno Engagement Photographer

Matouš Bárta

Dubai Love tree with couple | Pre Wedding Engagement Photographer

Vincent Mu

DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York City engagement photographer: Pause for laughter while we comment on graffiti

Casey Fatchett

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

Paolo Ferrera

Kristina Cazares Neri

Street art engagement image from Helen, GA of couple posing with wall art

Cindy Brown

Wedding photographer in Spain for Madrid engagement photography

Sergio Cueto

New Zealand Couple in front of street art painting of elephants in Christchurch

Liz Robson

Mihai Zaharia

Hollywood, Los Angeles engagement shoot of a couple chilling on Sunset Blvd

Darren Hendry

Couple at the Guthrie - Fine Art MN Engagement Photo Shoot

Penny McCoy

Kurt Vinion

Alfama, Lisboa artistic pre wedding portrait shoot with some urban art as their backdrop

Carlos Porfírio

Los Gatos couple walking during engagement session - Follow me - California - Northern

Chris Shum

Painted building art couple engagement image from Porto Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Clara Sampaio

River North Art District Pre Wedding Session - Soon to be Bride and groom with grafitti

Jesse La Plante

Yakima, WA Portrait Session - Engaged couple looking up a canyon in Eastern Washington

Ron Storer

Engaged Couple kissing against giant mural in Wynwood, Miami, FL

Lukas Guillaume

beijing pre-wedding portrait shoot in front of a huge red advertising board

Wenjie Han

Walking near painted mural during Hong Kong Engagement Portrait session.

Liam Collard

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

A couple squats on the ground kissing in front of a wall in Ho Chi Minh with graffiti art of a boy and a dog in this engagement photo by a Vietnam photographer.

Huy Nguyen

Sao Paulo pre-wedding engagement pictures of a couple enjoying some street art paintings | couple photography session

Renan Radici

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

Scott Josuweit

Vietnam Phu Quoc Island - You and I go and save memories everywhere we can

Huy Che Hoang

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