Hi, I’m Mila.

A little about me

I grew up on the Baltic coast, in a small town where the lighthouse was the tallest building — and the most reliable one. At fourteen I borrowed my father’s old film camera and never really gave it back.

After studying visual communication in Hamburg and spending several years assisting wedding photographers in Vienna, I opened Tiny Lighthouse in 2021. Today we are a small team: me, a second photographer and a retoucher — people who care about people more than about equipment.

I grew up between three languages, so English, German and Russian all feel like home. It makes a surprising difference when your guests come from different corners of Europe.

Why “Tiny Lighthouse”?

A lighthouse doesn’t make the voyage. It simply keeps a small, steady light burning so that the people who matter find their way home. That’s how I see my job: not to direct your day, but to keep watch over it, so that none of the important moments get lost in the dark.

And “tiny”, because we are a small studio and intend to stay that way. You will always know exactly who is photographing you.

How we work

• Documentary first — we observe rather than stage.
• Gentle direction for portraits, never more than twenty minutes away from your guests.
• Every photo edited by hand, no presets on autopilot.
• Natural colours that will still look right in thirty years.
• Two copies of every file, in two places, on the same night.