Couple walking hand in hand across a misty meadow in Golden Gate Park, in sepia

Love stories,
by yuyay.

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Based in San Francisco, California

The name

By Yuyay

In Quechua, yuyay means memory.
Every photograph is made to help you remember.

Couple embracing under the Portals of the Past in Golden Gate Park

How I photograph

Editorial, but never posed.

CouplesAnniversaries, engagements and just because.
ProposalsPlanned in secret, photographed from the first second.
WeddingsElopements and intimate weddings, quoted for your day.
MotherhoodAt home, in the light of your own windows.

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Expecting mother in a sage knit dress in golden light

The look

Golden light, soft and timeless.

Warm, cinematic color you’ll want to frame, and a few black and white images in every gallery, for the memory.

Expecting mother with her Bernese mountain dog smiling at the beach

The experience

Remember the laugh.

I guide every moment, and the laughs come on their own, sometimes from the dog. That’s when the photographs you keep happen.

Kind words

You have a letter

A letter from

Brenda smiling with her camera, in sepia

Behind the camera

Hello, I’m Brenda

Originally from Peru, now in San Francisco. I picked up a camera to photograph my son, to keep what I didn’t want to forget. Today I do the same for couples and families.

Let’s make a memory

Now booking 2026 & 2027

Tell me your date and the story you want to keep. I reply within one to two days.

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