Michael is an intuitive fine art photojournalistic wedding photographer. His style comes primarily from his combined background in...amatic fine art portraiture, candid child photography, and newspaper photojournalism. He shoots his weddings in color, but specializes in B&W and sepia imagery.Read More
Heather has been a photographer since she was 10 years old, and received formal training at Rochester Institute of Technology. She...t her start by assisting for Wedding Photographers and worked in a photo lab for over 10 years as well as at George Eastman House. Currently, Heather is the Program Chair for the Greater Rochester Professional Photographers and has recently begun teaching workshops to beginning and advanced photographers. Attending conferences and staying up to date is a primary goal as well as running an Eco-Friendly business. Typically she photographs a very select number of weddings per year, focusing on the fun and creative Couples who come her way.
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Exceptional wedding photojournalism from an experienced professional whose photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, People, Vogue...d many other publications. John’s work has also been used as an album cover by Johnny Cash, and been included in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London, England.
Besides being a wedding photojournalist & portrait photographer, John has worked extensively in the movie business, photographing celebrities for the major Hollywood studios and TV networks. He has been sent on assignment to many locations around the world.
Storytelling is John’s calling. And his focus as a photographer has always been people - both those that are quite famous, and those that are extraordinary in more accessible and personal ways.
This has led him to the unique creativity and storytelling found in wedding photojournalism, which he has enjoyed for over ten years now. John finds it very inspiring to be given the opportunity to bring his experience to so visual and meaningful an occasion as a couple's wedding day.Read More
My name is Megan Schley and I have seven years of photography experience. In that time, I have experienced every step of the photography...ocess, from taking the photo, to editing, to printing. As a photographer, I always strive to capture images that are honest, and emotional. I am located in Orange County NY.Read More
Dianna began her love of photography at age 10 when she picked up her father’s used camera. Her passion developed into a career that...w spans over two decades exclusively in wedding photography. She has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Caribbean and has most recently photographed in Venice and Anguilla. She lives in New York with her incredibly fabulous husband, two children and rescued pet Akita.
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Genevieve came to photogaphy in a traditional way. Her interest started as a child when her newspaper reporter mother brought home...e of the staff photographer's cameras. She kept a firm hold of that camera and ended up getting a photography degree from Bennington College where she concentrated on documentary photography. After a small break to get her Masters in Social Work Genevieve opened her family business Genevieve Fridley Photography in 2005.
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Denise began her interest in photography as a child and went on to study Fine Arts at the College at New Paltz, in New York. She has...ained with various professional organizations including PPA, WPPI, and DWF, and considers photography a part of life's ongoing journey. Photography has been a gateway into sharing, capturing, and remembering people's most sacred moments and occasions. She has had the privilege of working with various non-profit organizations including the Joe Torre Foundation, Christopher Reeve Foundation, and American Cancer Society. Her work has recently been published in Brides Connecticut, Modern Bride, and The Knot.Read More
I fell in love with Photography in my early 20’s spending as much time as possible in New York City shooting street photography. One...ing I could always count on during this time was that my images were unadulterated, real and raw.
I learned the technical side of Photography at college in Upstate NY studying Photojournalism. Many an hour, was spent shooting and developing my film in the lab. This gave me a great appreciation for the masters and made me respect film and the art.
Since then I have shot not only weddings, but have been honored to photograph such people as; Richie Havens, Olympia Dukakis, Wynton Marsalis to name a few.
However, nothing compares to a wedding and no one compares to a Couple that have just tied the knot. There’s a special feeling and a special art with weddings that cannot be compared. I take a photojournalistic approach to my wedding photography, capturing the moments as they happen--real emotion, real life.
I do promote, "Green Weddings", and my favorite places to work are at locations where they follow my same philosophy. I currently live in Beacon NY, just north of NYC, with my fiance Barry, who is also is my right hand man with all aspects of the wedding business.
We have two cats, Ansel and Genevieve who are both shelter cats--which is one of my strongest passions. I also played in an ill-fated punk rock band, love cooking and watching wedding shows... so if anyone wants to find me on Facebook and talk about the latest episode of “Who’s Wedding is it anyway”, please do.
Some of my work has been seen in the New York Times and featured in the Wall Street Journal.
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Steve Jacobs is an Award-winning Photojournalist with experience as a newspaper and freelance magazine photographer. Steve enjoys making...ur day memorable in a creative, artistic, and non-traditional way.Read More
Visual art and the art of story telling have always been intertwined and i bring both of these disciplines to my work as a wedding...otographer. I have a varied life as a visual artist, starting out in documentary film, then moving on to become an Art Director in NYC. A couple of years ago, I decided to change a few things and moved from NYC to Rhinebeck. With that, I decided to revisit my love of storytelling through images and started photographing weddings. After all, every wedding has a great story. The romance, the love, the joy, the tears. I love what I do and consider myself very lucky to be able to do what I do.
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Carrie Niland is an award-winning photographer based in Syracuse, NY. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The...shington Post, The Seattle Times, Newsweek, Time, USA Today and ESPN magazine.
After receiving a Masters of Photography from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communications, Carrie worked as a newspaper photojournalist for nearly 5 years up and down the east coast. She then starting working as a picture editor which led to jobs at The Seattle Times and AOL.
As a photojournalist, Carrie's has photographed everything from major hurricanes in Florida, presidential primaries in New Hampshire, to the Daytona 500 and the Super Bowl. These experiences have provided her with the skills to not only find the moment in any given situation but to capture it in a unique, creative way. 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
Eric Lagstein is an international award-winning wedding photographer. He was recently named the 1st runner up photographer in the world... the WPJA. He and his wife Brooke Lagstein are a husband and wife photography team specializing in the fine art of wedding photography using a photojournalistic style. They are based out of Northern, NJ.
Eric's successful career began during the planning of his own wedding. He realized that using his craftsmanship to document the laughter, love, and special moments of a wedding day would bring him joy on a regular basis. He is inspired by the love of his family, dynamic imagery and a super high appreciation of the connection between two people who love each other. His work regularly appears in numerous publications including The Knot, Brides NJ, and (201) Magazine.Read More
Rich Janniello is an award winning wedding photographer based in New York. Originally from the New York City area, Rich began his...otography career after graduating from Fordham University. His work has been shown in numerous galleries and published world-wide. When he's not behind the camera, Rich likes to spend time with his very supportive wife and 3 children.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.
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Harvey Manger-Weil is proud to be chosen as Best Wedding Photographer in America by Extraordinary Bride Magazine for his work "unmatched... terms of originality, color, composition and spontaneity. Harvey makes it a point to photograph brides across the ethnic and socioeconomic spectrum."
Harvey started his first photography business when he was only 16. After graduating from Dartmouth, he has spent the last 20 years photographing primarily weddings, while also selling his fine art photography exclusively through Gallery 721 @ Sobro in New York City. The list of celebrities he has photographed include Madonna, Janis Ian, Billy Joel and the Dixie Chicks. Harvey's photographs are published in "Subway Diaries" by Heidi Cole. Harvey's photography is on permanent display in Mekelle, Ethiopia at Manger-Weil House, the 8,000 square foot orphanage Harvey and his wife helped to fund.
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Andre is a full-time professional wedding photographer. He has trained with several of the most respected contemporary wedding photographers...ncluding Bambi Cantrell, Cliff Mautner and Joe Buissink. In earlier phases of his career, Andre was an assistant editor at Universal Pictures in Hollywood, California as well as TV news and sports cameraman and editor. Andre always shoots weddings with his wife Veronica, "because it's more fun that way!"Read More
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
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
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
Joshua is an unobtrusive and award winning wedding photojournalist and filmmaker based on the upper west side of Manhattan. His unique...proach to documenting your wedding day enables him to produce spontaneous and fun images without overshadowing the bride and groom.
Joshua grew up in the south in Tennessee and went to the top photojournalism school in the country. He also worked for newspapers in Utah for a few years, and then moved to New York City 4 years ago.
He has been photographing weddings for close to 10 years. Although his background is classic still photojournalism, he is increasingly interested in video and film making. He has studied at NYU film school. He keeps busy, but typically takes on a couple weddings a month during the busy season. He also shoots video and photography for various commercial clients.
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Monica Donovan got started in photography as a teenager when she picked up her dad's old Canon F-1 from the seventies. She attended...e Rochester Institute of Technology for photography, also dabbling in graphic design, writing, and earning a certification in business management. She started shooting weddings at the age of 19 and founded Eve Event Photography with Judson Lamphere in 2006. Monica has been published in the Wall Street Journal and BRIDES magazine and has garnered WPJA awards for her work.
When she's not out shooting and traveling, Monica can be found playing with other people's dogs, going to see live music or discovering new swimming holes in the pristine back country of Vermont.Read More
Some of the best Upstate 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 Upstate NY artistic wedding photography!
If you choose one of our WPJA Upstate 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 Upstate 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.
The upstate region of New York offers major mountain ranges like the Catskill and Appalachian Mountains, and massive bodies of water like Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario, the Finger Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, offering a vast landscape to host your wedding activities and will add life to your wedding photographs. One of the greatest draws that can add to your wedding is the famous Niagara Falls, with its majestic water falls and scenic activity. Buffalo, Rochester and Albany, some of upstate New York’s familiar cities offer diverse landscapes, classy restaurants and hotels that will bring enjoyable wedding hospitality. Up in the north, you will find the magnificent Adirondacks, which takes up two-thirds of the upper state region. Filled with beautiful mountains and crystal clear lakes like Lake Placid, you will find the most stunning locations for your wedding photographer to shoot your pictures. Destinations are in plenty as you can opt to have a fabulous spring/summer wedding, a fall foliage celebration or a winter snow capped nuptial. In Central-Leatherstocking, you can enjoy the historic spas and or spend the days surrounding your wedding celebration in the cozy bed and breakfasts. Your wedding photojournalist will be delighted to shoot pictures with the scenery offered in this region. In addition you’ll find beautiful waterfalls and parks that will instill nature’s beauty into your wedding.
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