Merzougraphy (Adam Merzoug)

the profile

Adam Merzoug photographs weddings in Marrakech under the name Merzougraphy, and his backstory tells you most of what you need to know. He spent 9 years working as a construction engineer before photography took over, and that training shows in the pictures. The 2026 Marrakech Wedding Guide, which ranked him in its top 10 photographers in the city, put it bluntly: an engineering background that brings precise framing, clean execution, and attention to detail most shooters skip. He has been shooting weddings full time since 2018 and has covered well over 150 of them, local celebrations and destination couples flying into Morocco alike. He works in French and English, which matters when half your guest list is Moroccan family and the other half arrived from Paris or New York. The style is documentary first, fine art second. Merzoug describes his own approach as natural, authentic storytelling, and the galleries back that up: real moments, real light, not a day of stiff posed set-ups. Look through his published couples, Souhaila and Tyler, Chaymae and Mamoun, Charline and Idriss, Jasmine and Ziad, Greta and Yannick, and you see the same thing, a photographer who catches the in-between seconds rather than only the big staged frames. The Instagram feed at merzougraphy is active and consistent, which is the first thing I check, because a photographer who has not posted in a year is a photographer whose business may have quietly moved on. His does not have that problem. What a couple gets is full wedding coverage plus the option of engagement, couple, and family sessions, delivered as a private online gallery. Pricing is quoted per project once he understands your day. For reference, the 2026 guide listed him around 25,000 dirham, and his own directory profiles quote an hourly structure with a six-hour minimum, so this is a mid-market luxury rate rather than a budget one. In our directory his range sits between 1,500 and 3,000. Booking is standard for the city: a signed agreement and a deposit hold your date, and the good dates in spring and autumn go months ahead. Reach him directly by phone or WhatsApp on +212 660 294 233, or through the site at merzougraphy.com. One detail worth knowing: Merzougraphy also advertises wedding planning alongside photography. Treat that as a convenience, not the main event. His core skill, the thing he is genuinely good at, is the camera, and I would hire him for that and keep your planning with a dedicated planner unless your wedding is small and simple. The 8.2 rating in our directory is solid and honest, a very good working photographer, not the single most-hyped name in Marrakech, and priced accordingly. Here is the honest caveat. Merzougraphy reads as a one-person operation, which is a strength for consistency and a risk for a large, multi-location wedding where you genuinely need two cameras working at once. Before you sign, ask directly whether a second shooter is included or costs extra, and confirm it in writing if your day runs across several venues or well into the night. Nail down the exact deliverables too: how many edited images, whether a wedding film is part of the deal or a separate videographer's job, and how many weeks until your gallery lands, because turnaround is where photographers most often disappoint. Ask to see one full wedding gallery start to finish, not just the highlight reel, so you know the whole day holds up and not only the ten best frames. Ask as well whether he carries backup cameras and duplicate memory cards on the day, because a single equipment failure with no backup is the one risk that cannot be fixed after the fact. Do that homework, and you are hiring a precise, reliable, genuinely talented photographer for your Marrakech wedding.