Hi, I'm Sander!
Lovely to meet you! I’m Sander Vill, an award-winning wedding, couple, and brand photographer and videographer based in the beautiful city of Turku, Finland.
I have a deep passion for emotions, and that’s what brought me to photograph the things where they matter most: weddings, couples, and brands. I started my photography business in 2015, and I’ve been in love with it ever since. Over the past 9 years, I’ve captured more than 170 weddings, dozens of couples, and over a hundred marketing videos and photos. In 2025, I’ll also be celebrating my 10th year in business — and I couldn’t be more grateful. Thank you for making it possible.
My daily professional life is filled with weddings in Finland and across Europe (in the coming years, I’ll be traveling to Norway, Estonia, Italy, Sweden, and other destinations for weddings), couple sessions in Finland and nearby areas, and brand shoots mainly in Turku, Tampere, and Helsinki. In the future, I hope to continue capturing amazing wedding stories both in Finland and abroad, photographing couple sessions, and bringing authenticity and soul to brand shoots. I would be honored to be part of your journey!
Awards, articles & published
In 2024-2025 I received Awards from competitions Based in Europe and Finland
This is an award I received from Way Up North. It's global wedding photography event organizer, who does seminars, workshops and everything else related to wedding photography in all over Europe.
They have Way Up North Awards once a year and I was one of the Top 3 Finalists of the Europe's Best Young Wedding Photographer competition. At first I was nominated and then I needed to submit 10 photos from 2024 that were captured on an actual wedding day. You can participate to this category until you are twenty five years old. I'm extremely happy to receive this honor and see my images on a stage in front of 600 people in Berlin 2025, where the event took place. Thank you!
The Wedding Photo of The Year 2024 is a competition organized by Finnish magazine called Häät.fi. You can participate to the competition with two images and ten images are selected to the finale by jury.
These 10 images are now coming to a public voting and top three are getting mentioned. I received a third place with my photo in 2024. That was awesome. Thank you so much!
Over the years there has been a few articles about my career in local newspapers
I have been mentioned in Turun Sanomat (2025), Salon Seudun Sanomat (2025), Turun Sanomat (2022), OP Media (2021), Turun Sanomat (2019) & earlier in Ilta-Sanomat.
My work has been published in wedding magazine
In 2024 autumn one of my wedding stories was published in Häät.fi wedding magazine.
But who am I as a person?
As a human I'm warm, genuine and easily approachable. I'm a big brother for two amazing sisters and my whole family is really important to me. I started my photography career when I was 13 years old and I have always been extremely hard-working. Besides my career, I also have things I really love. I enjoy traveling, cycling, watching F1, seeing my friends, spending time with my girlfriend and planning my next meal. I love coffee, pizza with pineapple, mango ice cream and pretty much everything else really delicious.
But I'm a little crazy as a person. Maybe it has something to do with this "entrepreneur type of mind" of approach to life. Because I always love the things the most where I need to do something to achieve it. For example as on holiday I love active holidays. Roadtrips, mountain hikes, big walks or new challenges. In the past few years we have been on a journey in Slovenia, USA and Iceland and every trip has been packed with everything, but I just love it. I think this is the fun part. Even though I want to take new challenges I'm still afraid to do them. While hiking up the mountain I always think what if I can't make it back down, or is it possible to drive up that crazy bumpy road or do we really have the pace to cycle the whole journey we have planned. I think that explains my mind. I am often scared, but I still want to do those things to have amazing memories. Have the feeling you are truly doing something exciting and new.
I think it's the same with my job. It would be crazy to say photographing weddings is easy. It isn't. You really need to focus to achieve amazing things and that's exactly what makes it so special.
Image gallery of my life
Here is a small image gallery of photos from my personal instagram and life
Get to know me in 5 questions
What is your experience in photography?
I have been a full time photographer over 6 years and a photographer as a business owner for 10 years. I have photographed over 170 weddings, dozens of couples and over a hundred marketing videos or projects. Photography has always been my main and only job.
Why DO you shoot weddings, couples and brands?
I want to feel a true meaning to things I capture. Weddings are naturally one of the most important things of our lives. In couple shoots we share love with the most important person and that's inspiring. In brand shoots you need to make photos or videos that create emotions and that is very exciting for me. All of them include the same element - emotions.
What is your favourite thing to do on a day off?
If I could make up a perfect day in my life it would include having time with my close ones, going for walk, cycling trip or doing something active, then having the best pizza in town and after that maybe watching an exciting movie or F1 race. I actually enjoy quite simple things!
What is your dream holiday or trip?
To be honest I'm actually not a very "dreamer" type of person. I usually just want to do things, when the possibility comes up. But if I should say something I would love to do a road trip in New Zealand or Australia. I'm already freaking out of an idea about those massive spiders, but I think it would be worth the shot!
Tell me something I don't know about you!
I'm actually a small car person. I like sport cars and I dream of having a cool Audi or Porsche one day and drive with it on twisty Alps roads. We are also hoping to get an Italian greyhound dog to explore the world with us. Lastly, this you might already know, but I actually love to wear colorful clothes on my free time. Usually at work I wear a lot black to blend in with the guests in wedding so I enjoy to be more colorful when I can.
