I've been a photographer for many years, most of that time working in the news business. From that I learned to tell stories with pictures...d also to let events unfold without my influencing them. Now, most of my work is weddings, and photojournalism training has served me well. I've won some awards here and there, but the biggest reward I receive is when my clients come to consider me as their friend rather than just their photographer.Read More
At age ten I entered the local Indiana 4-H photography competition. After losing miserably, I kept shooting. When the shoe boxes of...ctures began to overflow underneath my bed, my parents decided this was no longer a phase and bought me my own camera. I have been passionate about photography ever since.
I moved to DC to attend American University and study international communications. I got my first digital camera for my study abroad to Brazil. Within one hour of arriving in Sao Paulo, I was mugged. When my insurance reimbursed me, I decided to get a nicer camera. I figured I might be able to make a bit of money with it, so I found a local DC photographer and began assisting and second shooting for weddings.
I immediately fell in love with journalistically capturing such special days, and am thrilled to have been a part of so many great celebrations. Using my photography as a tool to help others has become a large part of what I do. I have documented the plight of AIDS orphans in Zambia, the struggle for land reform in Brazil, and the life of those who live under the totalitarian regime in Burma. I hope that in the future I can do more of this work and help bring to light the many situations that are not justly covered in the media.
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After receiving her degree in photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Natalie dove into wedding photography by opening... her studio, Borrowed Blue Photography, and has been loving every minute!Read More
Dennis Drenner has been a photojournalist for the last fifteen years and has been shooting weddings for the last ten. His photographs...ve appeared hundreds of times in publications like the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and New York Times. His work has won awards in the prestigious Pictures-of-the-Year competition and earned him a Fulbright Fellowship to work in Pakistan. He has also won three grants from the Maryland State Arts Council in addition to grants from the Arthur Burns Foundation and Rotary International. Dennis lives in Baltimore and shoots 25 to 30 weddings a year throughout the Mid-Atlantic. His shooting style is extremely laid back and his images reflect the comfort that his subjects feel in his presence. In the off-season, Dennis has a habit of popping down to South America where he takes pictures, flies his paraglider and gets in a good bit of salsa dancing.Read More
I first picked up a camera in a high school photography class and I have been photographing ever since. I studied traditional black...d white photography at the University of Maryland, College Park and received a B.A. in art studio. I then went on to live in Venice, Italy and received my M.A. in graphic design from a small art college.
Studying not only photography but also painting, drawing, and printmaking has made my photography better because I was expected to understand composition and color and the affect that they have on a piece. Throughout every step of my education my camera was and is always by my side. Making images is what makes me happy.
About three and a half years ago while working as a photo retoucher I decided to apply to an ad looking for a wedding photographers assistant. Since landing that job I have never looked back and I am still photographing weddings. I have found that having the job to capture beautiful images is the most amazing job I could ever have and I often wonder why it took me so long to realize it. Read More
Eddie has a degree in cinematographic art and years of successful experience in Photography. In 2002 Eddie moved to Washington DC with...s family and created Eddie Arrossi Photography with his wife Andrea. Eddie mixes photojournalism and candid portraits to create an outstanding story of the wedding day. Eddie loves sailing and spending time with his family in Edgewater where the studio is located and is also the perfect background for portrait sessions. Read More
Amy began her career as a photojournalist twenty years ago at a newspaper in Massachusetts. In her four years at the paper, Amy discovered...e thrill of being a photojournalist. Every day was a new opportunity to become intimate with a subject and share the subject's experience. At this point, she began using her skills to photograph weddings.
Wanting to explore the American West and return to a society of old fashioned values and traditions as she has experienced in Vermont as a college student, Amy moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She worked and lived on ranches, capturing the connection between ranchers, their livestock and the land; documenting a lifestyle in threat of extinction. Her words and images were published in local newspapers and magazines, and exhibited in galleries and museums.
Amy is now living in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband and two daughters. She is rated "One of Washington's Best Wedding Photographers" by the Washingtonian Magazine, and "Baltimore's Best Wedding Photographer" by her brides in the Knot Best of 2007 Wedding Pick Magazine. Read More
Inspired by the landscape photography of Ansel Adams, I began documenting my travels as a professional musician while touring throughout...e United States and the Caribbean. When several of those photos were published in a national magazine it encouraged me to pursue photography more seriously. I began to experiment with architectural, sports, nature, and fine art photography as well. Recently I had the tremendous honor of having five of my photographs accepted into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. I was drawn to wedding photography because I love the challenge of trying capture all the emotion of the wedding day, and to try to tell the story in pictures so clearly that future generations will feel like they were there.Read More
Brian moved to Annapolis in 2007 from Connecticut. Since coming to the region, his business has continued to grow. He typically...oots 30-40 weddings per year, but never more than one per week! Brian firmly believes that apart from the posed portrait time, the photographer's job is document the event as a bystander, not influence it.
Brian's ideal clients are couples who value the art of photography and want a creative and accurate documentation of the events as they happened. He enjoys working throughout the DC/Baltimore region and beyond.
His wife, Birgit, has been instrumental in helping his business grow. They have no children (yet). Outside of the studio, Brian enjoys sailing (J/105) and skydiving. Read More
Bob Rives has been taking award-winning photographs for magazines, agencies, and corporations for more than two decades. His work has...peared in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, USA Today, McCall's, The Washington Post, and numerous other magazines, newspapers, and annual reports worldwide. He has the experience, and the artist's eye, to capture the special moments at your wedding that you will cherish for a lifetime.Read More
I picked up my first camera while on a 2-month long cross country trip with my parents and brother. That camera, an old all-manual...e, was my father's which he had bought while serving overseas in the military. I fell in love with photography on that trip. Over the next few years, I shot and shot and shot. Everything was my subject. I took every photo class available in my high school, but convinced myself that there was no career in photography.
I first became inspired by photojournalism while working at The Daily Collegian student newspaper as an undergraduate at Penn State University. I saw it as an opportunity to start shooting again and broaden my horizons in the world of photography. During college, I designed my own major to learn as much as possible about the craft of photojournalism and worked many, many long hours at the Collegian. I graduated in 1998 and followed my love of telling people’s stories while working as a photojournalist for newspapers in Celina, Ohio (The Daily Standard, 1999-2000) and in Montgomery County, Maryland (The Gazette, 2000-2006).
I left the newspaper business in 2006, when my son was born, to pursue weddings full-time and to be a stay-at-home-dad. I now work as a freelance photographer and as a wedding photojournalist through my own business and as an associate for Amy Raab Photography in Annapolis, Md., where I have worked since 2003. I live in Frederick, Maryland with my wife, Molly, son, Jackson, and beagle-mix, Brooks.Read More
My dad never considered himself an artist, but he went through many creative phases in his life. These phases included the stained-glass...ase, the architecture phase, the cello-building phase and the photography phase. He was a contractor by trade, so with each phase he built a new workshop to learn the craft. He never meant for me or any of my siblings to make a career out of his artistic pursuits. But once I discovered the magic of watching my images come to life in our basement photography lab, I was hooked.
When, at the age of 8, I began using an old "brownie" camera to photograph my dad's building projects, my siblings, our cats, my friends and everything else I could see, my parents were excited. As time wore on, however, I spent more and more time in the photography lab and a heck of a lot of money on gear.
It's been nearly 15 years since I've developed any prints in the lab, but I have not stopped creating images. I currently live in Ellicott City, Maryland and work as a freelance photographer, mostly in Baltimore and Washington D.C. During my eight years as a full-time photojournalist, I worked for newspapers in Los Angeles, Chicago, Pennsylvania and Maryland. I have also lived abroad in Cyprus for a year and traveled throughout the Middle East. Most recently, I was a staff photographer for Patuxent Publishing Company in Columbia, Maryland.
I have been photographing weddings for six years. When I photograph a wedding, I get to know people very well, learn their individual stories and document one of the best days of their life. The brownie camera is gone, and my dad's old photo lab has been packed up. Yet I continue to love the light and the images that I see through the lens.
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I wasn't one of those kids who had a camera around his neck at the age of 2. Actually, I didn't really grow up in a creative household...oth my parents worked 9-to-5 jobs. After high school, I went off to business school because that's all I really knew. In my third year of college, I was required to take an elective. I chose photography, and it really opened my eyes to see the world from a completely new perspective. I found I really enjoyed going around the streets of Boston, just documenting street life as I saw it. Around this same time, I meet an artsy girl named Kim, who is now my wonderful, creative wife.
All of these forces got me out of business school and into a professional, full-time photography program at the New England School of Photography. What a great experience and a great foundation. I immediately discovered that my passion was documenting people and their lives. So in 1996, I started working for local newspapers in Massachusetts. I fell into weddings by accident when a fellow photographer at the paper told me she shot weddings on the side.
Kim and I moved to the Washington DC area in 2000 for a change of pace, since we both grew up in Massachusetts. I continued working for newspapers and balancing a wedding business, but decided in 2003 to focus solely on documenting weddings. Now, to each wedding, I bring my passion for the craft and my experience documenting hundreds of weddings and thousands of newspaper assignments. I love every minute of it.
I currently live in Maryland with Kim and our 4-year-old son, Zack. Having an artist for a mother and a photographer for a father, Zack did have a camera around his neck at the age of 2. Read More
Robin Shotola began documenting weddings 10 years ago, while working as a photographer for a Connecticut newspaper. Her eye for unique...mera angles & her candid style of photography was popular with readers. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, TIME Digital, Woman's World Magazine & others. She has won several regional awards including Photographer of the Year for New England.Read More
Brian Slanger has a passion to capture the beautiful expressions and emotions that radiate from the faces of those attending the wedding...aving grown up in an artistic family, Brian has studied with some of the world's greatest living photographers and has earned an MFA (Master of Fine Art) from Vermont College. He has also done work for the White House, as well as magazines and corporate clients.Read More
It was a natural move for Ryan to start photographing weddings after working in newspapers for nine years. The same skills he used... photograph unscripted news events allow him to capture the special moments of a young couple's wedding, like the loving glance during a first dance, the look in a mother's face as she hugs her son, a bride and her maid of honor sharing a laugh before the ceremony.
Ryan Rayburn earned his photography degree in 1998 then became a photojournalist working for newspapers in Colorado, California, Illinois and Maryland. Ryan's photographs have been published in the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times Community News, Northwest Herald, The Gazette and Bethesda Magazine. He also is a photographer for the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. Ryan currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his fiancee Karen.Read More
My name is Edward. I am a wedding photojournalist based out of the Washington, DC area. My work has been showcased in several galleries...nd exhibitions, including Artomatic, and DCist Exposed '09 and '10. The camera has given me the great joy and pleasure to be a witness to so many amazing moments and with my cameras, I document these moments. Read More
Since shooting his first wedding while a sophomore in high school, Max has taken his passion for photojournalism and applied it to...lling the story of a couple's wedding day. His images have appeared in publications throughout the country including NY Newsday, The Morning Call, The Washington Post, the Star Ledger, the Miami Herald, and the Jersey Journal.Read More
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I have always loved photography but it was while working as a communications specialist at the United States Agency for International...velopment (USAID) that I realized the ability of photographs to quickly and powerfully tell a story or convey a message. I left my job at USAID to study at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts Boston University.
I have spent time working in Senegal, Turkey, and Kurdish Iraq photographing a range of subjects including emigration and religion in daily life. I strive to put my subjects at ease in my presence, creating engaging, intimate pictures that connect the viewer to the subject. I currently work as a freelance photographer covering editorial, event, wedding, and corporate photography. I am also a member of the National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA), the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and the Wedding Photojournalist Association.Read More
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As a documentary photographer, my primary concern has been making revealing, interpretive images of subjects both common and misunderstood. I...gan photographing weddings several years ago, approaching them in much the same way as my long-term projects or a magazine story.
Aside from taking the occasional group photos, during my normal coverage I don't arrange or stage my pictures in any way. I prefer to work with reality as I find it, and the authenticity of the resulting images is important to me. I want my subjects to look back at their photos ten, twenty, fifty years from now and remember precisely what they felt at the time. My focus is to convey the feeling of the day, the often complex relationships between those involved, and most of all, what is specific to them as individuals.
I work unobtrusively. It's hard to show people as they are if you're drawing attention to yourself. So I blend in, present but overlooked, quickly part of the background. I naturally concentrate on the couple, but also on their family and friends, what's happening in the corners, along the edges. I want the pictures to help them remember what they experienced, but also to show them things they never saw.
I tend to work with people seeking a different approach, those seeking not so much a book of Wedding Photos, but a series of beautiful, revealing pictures of one very specific point in their lives. Which just happens to be their wedding.
In my other life, I was a finalist for Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and winner of a Clarion Award. My current project, Chica Barbie, was awarded the Blue Earth Alliance Prize for Best Project Photography, shown at the Palm Springs Photo Festival and the LOOK3 Festival of Photography in Charlottesville and is currently a finalist for the Critical Mass Book Award.
I like climbing mountains, long walks on the beach, and oops! Wrong bio…Read More
Washington DC, District Of Columbia - United States
Rachael photographs weddings with The Observatory: Noteworthy Documentary Photographers. The Observatory is a small group of story-telling...ofessionals who capture the dynamic story of your wedding day as it naturally unfolds.
Rachael graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in photojournalism and has worked as a staff photojournalist at The Gazette in Montgomery County, Maryland and The Journal Tribune in Biddeford, Maine. Previously she interned at The Baltimore Sun, The Syracuse Post Standard and The Houston Chronicle.
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Joseph calls on his experience in the different disciplines of photojournalism, fashion, editorial and portraiture to capture images...at speak to the moment. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Harpers Bazaar Washington Post, Washington Life Magazine, Capital File Magazine as well as international publications.
Having started in photography in high school, Joseph began working as a paid professional photographer while still in college. Primarily shooting in the Washington, DC area, Joseph is often called to photograph weddings as far south as Palm Beach and as far north as New Hampshire. Washington Life Magazine, a premier luxury-lifestyle magazine in the National Capital Region, recognizes Joseph as “one of the District’s most versatile photographers”
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Karin von Voigtlander grew up in the Midwest and developed a love of photography at age 12. Later she attended college at the nationally...cognized photography school at the Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate New York. Karin has worked as a freelance and staff photojournalist along with growing her wedding and portrait business since 2002. Her love of travel and photography has led her to specialize in destination weddings, taking her to Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Bermuda, Greece, Nevis, Puerto Rico, and numerous destinations in the United States.
Karin's wedding images and photojournalism have been published nationally in USA Today, American Photo, The Washingtonian, Elite Wedding Collection, PDN (Photo District News), The Economist, Brides, Elegant Bride, Real Weddings: Australia, The New York Post, The Toronto Star, Destination Weddings and Honeymoons Magazine and beyond. Karin is available for travel worldwide. Karin's home base is currently New York City.Read More
Mike Topham is a former member of the White House Press Corps. and covered President Reagan at the White House and on the road. Mike...s issued a White House Press Photographers Pass in 1982. Other assignments include the Geneva Arms Talks, the famine in Ethiopia, The booming Japanese Economy, the fighting in Lebanon, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a day with US Senator John Kerry, several US Hurricanes and coverage of war torn Darfur. Now Mike works to provide magazine quality wedding photos to his clients in Virginia, DC, Maryland and worldwide. The Knot Best of Weddings 2007 Pick.Read More
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Based in Washington, DC, my work has been featured in publications including Time, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, Condé Nast Portfolio...d many books. I've photographed over 150 weddings around the world and found the experiences I've had to be a wonderful complement to my photojournalism work. Read More
Tracy Timmester is a passionate, enthusiastic photographer who feels lucky to have the greatest job in the world, documenting couples... their happiest days and kids in their first years of life! Tracy received her BFA in Photography in 2002 and after a year of living abroad in London, returned home to begin her career. She started by working as the wedding photojournalism Second Shooter for a Northern Virginia-based wedding photographer, and eventually branched out on her in own with Timmester Photography in 2005.
Tracy's photography style is very unobtrusive. She loves photographing moments in a candid and natural way so that each wedding is documented authentically. She believes that wedding photos shouldn’t be a collection of fake smiles and awkward poses, but an authentic reflection of the special day and its unique emotions, moments, and beauty. Read More
From my first wedding in 1991, to the present, I have looked for moments that take my breath away. My father sculpted my photojournalistic...yle from an early age and was one of my strongest influences. He left me my most treasured possessions, his cameras, his photography books and best of all, a love of photography. He taught me that time moves so fast and photography stops it. He started my hands on photography education and I continued it through high school and college. Being a firm believer in keeping my education current, I yearly take seminars and workshops.
I've won numerous awards locally and nationally. The number of weddings photographed is limited to less than 20 a year so that I can provide the best quality and only the finest service. I am married to the love of my life who supports me in so many ways and has even helped me build an indoor and outdoor studio. I am passing on my photography heritage to my daughter, Joriana, who I am proud to say is also an active member of WPJA. I love working with her, her unique photojournalistic perspective and that my father's artistic blood is still flowing through her veins!
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Pulitzer Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Hans Ericsson brings a high level of experience and style to contemporary wedding photography... Philadelphia, New York City and the central Atlantic region. His work has appeared on the front pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post and in other renowned newspapers and magazines around the world.Read More
Just wanted to let you know how much I value my WPJA membership, and to thank you and your staff for all the work you do to keep the organization running.
Being a WPJA member has had an incredible effect on my business. I'm getting more inquiries and bookings than I ever have before because of WPJA's great publicity, a well organized website, and all of the great advertising - word-of-mouth and otherwise. Entering the contests and seeing the work of other members has pushed me to a new level creatively.
But the best part about being a WPJA member and the high ethical standards of the organization is that when I'm booked or (God forbid) unable to shoot an event because of an emergency, I know that I have an entire network of like-styled and, more importantly, like-minded photographers who I would absolutely trust to take my place. In fact, I don't even refer clients to non-WPJA photographers anymore.
Anyway, keep up the great work and, as always, if there's anything I can do from Baltimore/DC, just ask.
—Robin Shotola, MARYLAND
KEVIN QUINLAN, MD
Let me start off by saying that although I have only been a WPJA member for a short period of time, I am very impressed with the organization. I have already booked a few weddings directly through the WPJA. The WPJA forums have also helped me a great deal in finding a new more reliable printing lab to get my proof prints through.
I get TONS of hits from WPJA, and pay so much more to advertise at other sites that hardly bring me any traffic. I won't be renewing those this year.
Yesterday I met with a B&G and they said they googled my name and the judge's comments from a winning image of mine came up. They said the judge's comments on my work were so beautifully and thoughtfully written; perfectly describing the type of photography they had been searching for. It confirmed their instinct that I was the one for them!
1. Oh my goodness, in the past 4 days I have had 2 contacts that have come for WPJA. One of the contacts, I am meeting with on Tuesday and the 2nd booked right over the phone. I am very excited!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you again. I did not want to be a part of WPJA for the marketing, but more to be a part of an association that has the best photographers in the world and a style that I love, but the marketing is pretty cool!! Thank you again :)
2. I am still amazed at how many hits and jobs I have booked from WPJA. The great thing is many of them book over the phone, which is wonderful :)
All my quality brides seem to come from WPJA and most of my hits that are not referrals from other clients are coming from WPJA :) You have a great organization here.
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As a Mid-Atlantic state, Maryland offers a surplus of unique perspectives and cultural experiences that bring the blessings of both the north and south of the United States together. With a nickname of “America in Miniature”, this fine wedding destination includes the sandy dunes, marshland regions, and oceanic ports of the Atlantic coast in the east, the rolling hills of forestry in the central Piedmont region and the mountainous, pine-filled regions in the west. Water activities and seafood delights are in plenty throughout the coastal regions of Maryland, making for prime traveling options for your wedding guests and family members who come to celebrate your special wedding occasion. In addition, you will find classic wedding photography opportunities that your wedding photographer will be delighted to shoot. History is studded throughout Maryland, with its connection to the nation’s capital, Washington D.C. and its varied Civil War historical sites. In addition to being the state capital, Annapolis, home of the United States Naval Academy, is considered by many to be the sailing capital of America, which offers a backdrop of maritime experiences and fine photographic opportunities. Maryland uniquely borders the states of Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware, and offers a coast to the Potomac River, the Chesapeake Bay and the magnificent Atlantic Ocean that can present creative opportunities to set the stage for stunning wedding photographs. These exclusive Maryland features make for a wedding experience filled with distinctive photographic opportunities that will leave you with indelible memories of your Wedding Celebration.
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