Documentary Family Photos

Karen, Chris and Lauryn came out for a play date.





We’re often too busy as adults to do kid stuff with our children. Grandmas will do the stuff that figures large in a kid’s life. They’ll encourage a kid to be a kid. Grandmas, nanas and babas realize that those moments spent together are the point. It’s the moments you remember. The same moments that…
Having fun in your portrait session leads to natural, fun captures. Here’s 2 wonderful sisters just being themselves – carefree and living in the moment.
My fellow photographer Zelia came out with her boys for family portraits. She’s always up for trying anything. Jakob Markus and Mathew were a riot! This kind of session is all about fun. I haven’t seen these guys since the winter and it was so cool to be talking with Mathew ….. cuz now…
I dug this 2008 session out of the archives this week when Rajivi asked for some prints. Two things really grab my attention about these photos. …… 2 years later ….. 1st, my portrait style has changed and I rarely pose people anymore. …. and 2nd, that I still love these – and I mark…
I recently had a family in my studio but not for family portraits. Karoline brought her sister Charlotte and her mother Esther in for her session. She also brought her friend Melissa. I didn’t arrange for permission to post Melissa’s images, so I won’t be showing those. This family made a strong impression on me….
14 family members? …. and 4 are young children? ….. and a dog? That’s the kind of session that tempts comtemporary photographers to go old school and do formal posed portraits with everyone gazing into the lens and smiling. This family of 14 helped me avoid that temptation by just being themselves; a spirited state…