Nathan and his wife, Karen, are a WPJA award-winning husband-wife team. He holds a degree in multimedia technology and uses his talents... personally design and publish the website for Bridges Wedding Photography. He also studied fine-art photography at Illinois State University. During his studies at ISU, one of his fine-art images was chosen by Popular Photography and Imaging Magazine for a full page showcase in their "Back Story" column-- a spot normally reserved only for the seasoned professional. Nathan and Karen have photographed over 100 weddings together since 2006. Read More
Nora spent her young years in the Midwest and then moved with her family to Southeast Asia and spent few years in Thailand and Taiwan....e has visited many countries, including New Zealand, Australia, France, England, Japan, Canada and Mexico. As a result, she loves traveling and jumps at every opportunity!
Traveling to many beautiful places piqued her interest in photography which she pursued as a hobby since her teens. Even in college, while she majored in economics, she took classes on the side that indulged her creative side.
After moving to Los Angeles and assisting a well known photographer at a few weddings, she discovered her love of photographing weddings. Nora incorporates “flow posing” to get the most natural poses and expressions possible. She prefers natural lighting as opposed to heavy flash use.
Nora has photographed weddings at many beautiful locations including country clubs and wineries in Santa Barbara, beaches in Malibu, Disneyland, and downtown Chicago. When she’s not photographing weddings, she enjoys snowboarding, scuba diving, reading, watching comedies, and playing with her cat and dog.Read More
Steve Warmowski brings the experience of nearly 20 years as a photojournalist to his wedding photography. The Chicagoan started at...e University of Illinois in physics but soon figured out making pictures was more fun. He photographed at the Daily Illini, had internships at newspapers in Saginaw and Muskegon, Michigan, and worked in LaSalle-Peru, Freeport and Decatur before becoming photo editor in Jacksonville. Steve has freelanced for national newspapers, his pictures have run in national magazines and his images have been exhibited in gallery shows. He has contributed to books, and served as a state coordinator for the America 24/7 book project.
Steve's talents have garnered awards at state, national and international levels. He's been recognized as one of the top ten photographers in Illinois and the Midwest through the Illinois Press Photographers Association's and National Press Photographers Association's monthly contests. He's won annual awards from the IPPA, Illinois Press Association and Illinois Associated Press Editors Association; been recognized in national NPPA contests; won for editing in the Pictures of the Year International contest; and even garnered a top state writing award for a feature on Haitian missionaries.
Steve is married to Tiffany, a designer and photographer who formerly worked at the Jacksonville newspaper and now is a Sign Language interpreter, fitness instructor and WeightWatchers leader. They live in Jacksonville (near Springfield) with their former stray dog, Kanon. They love to visit family in Chicago and to travel and stay with friends across the country and in Europe.Read More
Karen and her husband, Nathan, are a WPJA award-winning husband-wife team. In addition to wedding photography, Karen has an interest... fashion photography including fashion bridal. She has experience as both a runway and print model and uses her talent in front of the camera to help coach her brides from behind the lens so they look and feel fabulous. Karen studied fine-art photography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and she's photographed over 100 weddings with her husband since 2006. Read More
As a wedding photographer, Steve uses his photojournalist skills to put together a story of the clients wedding. Steve is known for...ing available light as well as strobe to capture the candid moments. He had previously worked as a photojournalist for the Associated Press and still has a working relationship with HBO as well as Getty Images, Wireimage, the Chicago Sun-Times, Tribune and Reader. Several fortune 500 companies also contract Steve for portraiture.Read More
C. Jason Brown is an award-winning photographer who has been documenting weddings since 2002. His eight years as a staff photographer... Pioneer Press Newspapers shaped his approach to each and every wedding. As a seasoned photojournalist, his goal is to go beyond the traditional portrait by recording the true essence of each couple’s story. In addition to Pioneer Press, his work has been published in the Chicago Sun-Times, New York Times and Chicago Social Brides and has been honored by both the Wedding Photojournalist Association and Illinois Press Photographers Association. With the start of each wedding season, Jason’s passion for creating meaningful and compelling images continues to define his work.
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John Zich and his wife, WPJA award-winner Anne Ryan, photograph news events for the world's leading publications. We also shoot a select...w weddings a year. Working as a team, we use our story-telling approach to produce award-winning wedding pictures and spectacular wedding books.Read More
Kevin Weinstein Photography, Inc. began in mid 2001 when Kevin decided newspaper journalism was not offering the artistic challenges... was craving. His journalism background allows him to make informed decisions when shooting weddings. He can sense and predict when key moments will happen so he never goes for the cliches, but the split seconds in between.
Kevin brings to each client a person dedicated to his art, an understanding of the day's event and an ability to join the worlds of photojournalism & artistic photography into one compelling piece.
Kevin's goal is to create a story from beginning to end. A story captured through the most candid approach possible. A story that goes behind the scenes of the ceremony, cake cutting, toasts and first dances to reveal the beautiful moments in between.
A story that 20 years later will bring you back to everything from buttoning your dress to celebrating with your guests.
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Wedding and family photojournalism is a natural extension of what I do for one of the top newspapers in the country. I have worked... a photojournalist for fifteen years, including ten years for the Chicago Tribune. I am a member of the Chicago Tribune team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize and my photographs have been published in national publications including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post and Newsweek.Read More
Olivia Leigh is an [AG]WPJA award-winning, fine art wedding photographer based in Chicago. She specializes in a non-traditional, artistic...d photojournalistic approach to wedding photography. In addition, Olivia serves unique clients across the country through her boutique studio, Olivia Leigh Photographie.Read More
Malia Rae is a wedding photographer based in Chicago, Illinois. Malia has over ten years of experience in the photographic industry... well as a degree in photography. She loves to capture life in the present moment and is genuinely passionate throughout her process. When Malia is not photographing weddings you can find her taking pictures of many four-legged furry friends.Read More
Rachael received her Bachelor of Arts in Photojournalism from Columbia College Chicago in 1999. She had three internships in the newspaper...dustry with the Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune and Visual Edge 1998. Rachael began her photography business under the name Rachael Silvers Photography in 2001 and recently changed the business name to Metropolitan Imageworks to compliment her husband's video production company. Rachael is a top ten placement winner in two quarterly competitions through the WPJA.Read More
As a freelance journalist, my work has appeared in publications ranging from the New York Times and the Washington Post to the Chronicle... Higher Education. Previously I was a staff photographer at The State Journal-Register. I have a Master's degree from the Missouri School of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Art from Stanford University. I am a California native now at home in the Midwest with my husband, Ted, and our son, Sam.Read More
Daniel is a 2006 graduate of Eastern Illinois University with a degree in photojournalism. He is an award-winning photographer who...s worked for daily and weekly papers. He and his wife started Lifeworks Imaging in the summer of 2008. He specializes in capturing the perfect moment while telling the story of your once-in-a-lifetime day.Read More
In 1997 I started shooting weddings as an assistant while in college for photojournalism. I will honestly admit I never wanted to shoot...ddings and stopped assisting in 2001. In 2004, I and three of my friends each got married. After going through the experience as a groom and shooting my friends weddings, I started looking at the wedding process differently. With a new appreciation for the joy that goes into those special days I started saying yes when people asked me to shoot their weddings, instead of passing their names along to other wedding photographers I knew & trusted.
My photographic background started early, but blossomed in high school where I shot for the school paper & yearbook. Psychology was actually my original major before rediscovering photography. After changing majors & colleges I graduated with a degree in photojournalism from Columbia College. Currently I am still a working photojournalist & commercial photographer, outside of shooting weddings. On average I shoot no more than 20 weddings a year to leave room for other clients. Most couples I work with tend to be easy going, as I am, and have ideas that differ from the norm.Read More
Miriam has been shooting weddings for the indy-bride for five years. She typically shoots 12-15 weddings per year and dedicates to...e event per weekend only. Originally studying psychology and comparative religion, she was recruited by a classmate to manage the studio of a local photographer. She found weddings provided a panoply of human dynamic and tradition; an unexpected but natural transition. Her work is influenced by fashion, photojournalism and subject study. Her personal work on public pools was recently published as a photo essay in Analemna magazine. She also works as a photography coordinator and photo editor for Rotary International, a humanitarian non-governmental organization.Read More
Theresa is a freelance photojournalist in Chicago where she specializes in news, portrait, and wedding photography. She attended Columbia...llege Chicago, where she studied documentary and fine-art photography. Her distinct vision is enlightened by influences such as Gary Winograd, Bruce Davidson, Margaret Bourke White, Robert Frank, and Gregory Crewdson.
Upon graduation from Columbia, she relocated from Chicago to small town Ohio for a stint at an internship; then moved onto Laredo, Texas where she launched her career as a full-time photojournalist with the Laredo Morning Times. While working in the border city, she had the opportunity to freelance for national publications such as The New York Times, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, and the Associated Press.
She has earned awards from the National Press Photographers Association Regional Clip Contest, Society of Professional Journalists, Illinois College Press Association, and Hearst Honors.Read More
Kimberley's love for photography started in high school when she was one of those geeks on the yearbook staff who always had a camera... hand. Her career in photography started after the birth of her first son in 1993. Shooting rolls and rolls of film of obviously the worlds most miraculous baby led her to a friendship with a photo lab manager where she was hired. She learned darkroom techniques and the technical aspect of photo printing. The lab also had a small portrait studio that employed a photographer and one day the photographer did not show up, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Portrait photography offered Kimberley the chance to hone her skills with clients and the technical side of photography and it also helped put her through the photo program at the Milwaukee Area Technical College. But when she found wedding photography, her true love was found. Eschewing the faked posed moments, she instead found herself gravitating to the true moments and one day found this kind of photography had a name: Wedding Photojournalism. Photographing between 25-30 weddings per year keeps her sane and allows her to give her clients top notch service. Kimberley lives in Milwaukee with her two sons, two dogs and two cats. When she is not chasing the big white dress, she loves to travel wildly and with abandon.Read More
Lisa studied fine art photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, and now photographs about 20 weddings each year using Medium...rmat film. She lives with her husband in Indiana and also has a home base in Barrington, RI. Lisa curates shows for a contemporary fine art photography gallery and draws much of her inspiration from the art world. She often shoots for fellow artists and designers as well as other creative souls.Read More
Matthew Whitlock went to Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA right out of high school to study theater - focusing on technical design and...ghting design. He switched his major to Fine Art Photography his Junior year and never looked back. The lighting design experience he gained in the theater directly benefited his portrait photography, and was enhanced during his semester internship with Jill Greenberg Studio in New York City, NY.
After graduating from Coe, he moved back to South Bend and began work for Fan Action, INC - the publishers of Blue & Gold Illustrated (a Notre Dame Football Magazine) and Blue Gold Traditions (a Notre Dame Merchandiser). At Fan Action, he did all of the product photography for their many websites and catalogs, and shot sports photojournalism for the newspaper. Noticing the recent trend in Wedding Photojournalism, he saw the perfect opportunity to link his two passions - photojournalism and portrait photography, and Zeta-Alpha Studio was born.Read More
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them through the Wedding Photojournalist Association.
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moments’ of your wedding day.
In northern Illinois, wedding photos taken in one of the premier Japanese gardens in the country will depict the peace and serenity of this beautiful site. Sparkling waterfalls, formal gardens, koi ponds and a teahouse make beautiful backdrops for the Illinois wedding photojournalist. In the heart of Chicago, which sets a lakeside view of Lake Michigan, couples will find both entertainment and elegance. Chicago's, Millennium Park, offers spacious areas surrounded by the sites and sounds of the city, making for ideal wedding photography opportunities. In the river country of western Illinois, wedding photography prospects include scenic sites along the Mississippi River. The Wildlife Prairie State Park or Spoon River Valley are just a couple of the many interesting locations this river country has to offer. With the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois, wedding photographers will enjoy the many acres of beautiful forest to use as a backdrop for photographs. If your Illinois wedding will be in the Central part of the state, there are many interesting, historic sites. This part of the state features the State Capitol, Springfield, the famous Route 66, and even Amish Villages. Because of the rich and diverse culture of Illinois, wedding locations throughout the state offer something for everyone.
Some of the best Illinois fine art wedding photographers are now just a click away through the Artistic Guild of the WPJA! The AG takes the world-renowned artistic approach of WPJA wedding photojournalists to yet another level through post-production processing (usually Photoshop). AGWPJA photographers define Illinois artistic wedding photography!
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