Denise Chastain received her first 35mm SLR camera for her 12th birthday and hasn’t stopped clicking since. She studied photography...r 4 years in high school through an independent study program. This program was for students that excelled in a specific field. She then went on to study photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York in NYC. After graduating from FIT she started her commercial career. Denise Chastain has been in business for 19 years. Her work has appeared on magazine, book, and cd covers. Feature articles and national advertising campaigns have all played host to Chastain’s images. She also is a contributor to various industry magazines, (Photo District News & Studio Photography/Design Magazines), sharing her years of expertise and insight with her contemporaries.
In 2004 a twenty minute feature was dedicated to Denise Chastain and her photography. It was part of a weekly series in Japan called "New York Streets", created by NHK Enterprises. Denise started Modern Wedding Photography after many years of shooting the weddings of her commercial clients. Commercial clients would hire Chastain for her creative esthetic, her sharp ability to capture emotion, and distinct point of view. They also realized these traits would make Chastain the perfect choice to photograph their weddings as well. Chastain is an award winning member of the WPJA and is a PDN Top Knots best in category recipient. Read More
Fresh Meadows, New York (Long Island) - United States
Born and raised in Queens, NY, Jeffrey started his photographic education trotting across the country shooting both nature and urban...ndscape. Turning a passion into a full-time career, Jeffrey now covers over 25 weddings a year, and takes on editorial as well as commercial assignments in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Europe. On his off-time, Jeff relaxes to music, film and periodically works with social-needs organizations.Read More
Emin Kuliyev is an award-winning wedding photojournalist who has been documenting weddings for over seven years. Emin's photos have...en published in Brides New York, Digital Photo, Phot' Art International, Popular Photography, and the After Capture.
In 2008, Emin became a Photographer of the year in the AGWPJA.Read More
Radhiika Chalasani's 16 year career as a staff photographer for Agence France-Presse in Hong Kong and since as a freelance photojournalist...sed in Vietnam, Kenya, France and New York has taken her to several continents and numerous countries meeting people of widely different customs and cultures. Her work on Aids and famine in Africa has won several international awards and recently her Hurricane Katrina work for CNN was recognized by the Communication Arts Annual and exhibited in New York and Washington D.C.
Radhika's wedding photography combines classic magazine story telling and informal portraiture. Her goal is to capture the emotion and fleeting moments that make up one of the most important days of your life. She has photographed traditional Indian ceremonies, Jewish weddings, French marriages at the local city hall,intimate destination weddings, and traditional American weddings big and small. Radhika brings a compassionate eye and a caring heart to her pictures.Read More
André Maier has been a professional wedding photojournalist since moving to New York City in 1992. Andre studied Chemistry and Molecular...ology in Berlin and London, before studying photography, which has been his true passion all along. Apart from English, André also speaks German, French and Spanish fluently.
With more than twenty years of photography experience, my background includes fine arts, fashion and photojournalism. My photographs...e widely published around the world and have received many prestigious awards, including First Prize in the World Press Photo competition and nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. I earned a diploma in photography while in Russia and hold certificates from the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York and the Rochester Institute of Technology. My photographs are part of the collections of the New York Public Library, the Museum of the City of New York, the Museum Of Modern Art and numerous private collections. A wedding is a very significant and emotional event, and my approach is to make it as stress-free as possible.Read More
Fadi Kheir is a distinctive, award-winning photographer who has been published internationally including The New York Times, Elegant...ide, Italian Vogue and Brides. His portrait and wedding clients include art directors and acclaimed recording artists like Eddie Vedder and Willie Nelson who love his reportage style. A working photographer since the age of 16, Kheir has developed a successful business based on an honest and sincere love for his craft and an ability to capture the beauty in everyone. Although based in New York City, Kheir has photographed weddings worldwide including Morocco and Italy. His custom-designed albums reflect his reportage style of telling the story through real moments and emotions. Kheir is a graduate of New York’s prestigious High School of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts where he majored in Commercial Photography. He is a contributing member to PPA, WPJA and APA.Read More
A former Associated Press and Miami Herald staff photographer, Beth Keiser's work has been published in most major newspapers and magazines,...cluding the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone and Time Magazine. Awards and honors have also followed her career with several awards from the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photography, Pictures of Year International and the highest honor of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of the Miami Herald's Hurricane Andrew coverage. Beth continues the journey today in New York City.Read More
Working as a freelance photographer based in New York City, Merri Cyr has specialized in photographing musicians and artists and has...er 80 album covers to her name. She has been published in Rolling Stone, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, People and other magazines worldwide.
She has also worked for most of the major US record labels. In the past 3 years Merri has had one-man photo exhibit galleries in London, Sydney and New York City featuring her photography of musicians. She continues her work photographing artists and feels that her focus in documenting weddings is an extension of her editorial work - looking to authentically capture the moments as they happen and be as unobtrusive as possible.Read More
Jane Shauck is a WPJA award-winning photographer who uses a photojournalistic approach to show her clients' true personalities in beautiful...ys. She has been a photojournalist for the Associated Press and a commercial photographer for Fortune 500 companies. Jane has been published in TIME Magazine, Connecticut Bride, Newport Life, Brides Connecticut, The Knot Best of Weddings, and HOUR Detroit Magazine. Jane has shot TIME's 100 Most Influential People Gala in New York since 2006, photographing over 150 of the recipients as TIME's photographer and most recently, photographed dramatic black and white portraits of the 2009 New York Mets for SNY and The Mets. She is a member of the industry organizations WPJA, DWF, ASMP, and the Advertising Photographers of America. Jane lives in West Hartford, CT with her husband Mike and two boys, Sebbie and Jude.Read More
As much as he has enjoyed photographing celebrities like Madonna, Billy Joel and the Dixie Chicks, nothing beats the thrill that Harvey...ts when capturing the high emotion that fills a wedding day. Using the finest cameras and lenses available, he has photographed hundreds of weddings over the last 20 years.
In collaboration with his wife, Harvey has offered clients the option of turning one of their wedding photos into a work on canvas that combines photography and paint similar to the pieces displayed at their New York City gallery.Read More
Wayne Yuan serves in the New York area and travels nationwide to photograph weddings & portraits. He has been professionally photographing...ddings since 2006. In Q4 2008, Wayne Yuan Photography has been rated as the top 30 photographers on the Artistic Guild of Wedding Photojournalist Association and has been awarded a Gold Medallion for his award-winning photography.
Based out of New York City, Jared has been making a name for himself among brides looking for a photographer to capture beautiful images... their day in a non-obtrusive manner. Before becoming a wedding photojournalist, Jared was a portrait photographer whose clients were so pleased with his style and easy going personality, that they starting asking him to photograph their weddings. The majority of his wedding bookings are referrals from happy couples with whom he's worked. Jared takes pride in not only capturing beautiful images for his clients, but building lasting relationships with them as well.Read More
New York City, New York (City/Metro) - United States
My wife, Alice, and I have a passion for capturing life's important moments in photos and have photographed hundreds of weddings. I...ve been honored with awards from the prestigious Wedding Photojournalist Association, the famed Wedding & Portrait Photographers International and the Professional Photographers of America. My work has been published on TheKnot and other regional publications. I have been flown to exotic locations such as the Amalfi Coast of Italy and the island of St. John to shoot weddings. While I also do some commercial work for clients such as MTV and Bacardi, my main love is to capture the emotions, rhythm, and spontaneity of weddings. Read More
I used to be an editor at a teen magazine with a quiet passion for taking pictures. Then I photographed my sister’s wedding. Right...fore they broke the glass I ducked out from under the chuppah, ran into the aisle and snapped the money shot. After the ceremony I changed out of my maid of honor dress and into black pants and a black shirt. That was it, I was a wedding photographer.
Now, 8 years and hundreds of weddings later, I am an award-winning wedding photojournalist with a successful one-woman studio. And I am still so grateful every time I am invited to witness and document such a beautiful commitment.
Some of the best Long Island NY 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 Long Island NY artistic wedding photography!
If you choose one of our WPJA Long Island New York wedding photojournalists
as your wedding photographer, please let them know you found
them through the Wedding Photojournalist Association.
The WPJA at a glance: The Wedding Photojournalist Association
puts the best LI New York wedding photographers at your fingertips,
by granting membership only to the most talented professional
wedding photographers in the world--photographers who focus solely
on using their documentary photography skills to capture ‘the
moments’ of your wedding day.
Extending east of New York City, Long Island, New York sits on the Atlantic Ocean as the largest island in the 48 contiguous states of the U.S. Long Island offers scene oceanic views and classy locations for memorable weddings; as in Nassau County and The Hamptons. Tattered with numerous state parks and beautiful lighthouses, you will find a surplus of wedding photography opportunities all throughout Long Island that you won’t find anywhere else. East Hampton offers relaxed east coast living with classic style villages, farms and fabulous beaches which offer delightful wedding destinations. Southampton offers never ending options for wedding locations and activities. Whether you shop on Main Street, lay out and picnic on miles of beachfront, golf on the Shinnecock Golf course or enjoy water activities, this area will offer scenic activities for your wedding party and panoramic sites for dazzling wedding photographs. Long Island will not disappoint when it comes to making your wedding celebration an extraordinary one that your wedding photojournalist will be pleased to shoot.
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