Bio: Timothy Barmann has been a photojournalist for more than 20 years, working at The Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Providence
Journal. His work has won numerous regional and national awards. Tim's experience and unobtrusive style allow him to document one of the most important days in your life in a
creative and memorable way.
Bio: John Freidah has documented people's lives for 15 years. His work has been nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize and earned him the title of "Photographer of the Year" from the National Press Photographers Association. John's photos have appeared in such periodicals as National Geographic, Time Magazine and Newsweek. He has lectured throughout the United States and Europe on the art of story telling with the use of pictures. He will bring his experience, passion and love of photography to document your wedding day story.
Bio: I have been a photographer for decades, but photojournalistic wedding photography: capturing the romance, drama and humor all inherent in a wedding day, summarizes everything I love in the craft. My two years of romantic photojournalistic wedding photography have shown me that people are the story and that the art is in aligning light, emotion and gesture into that magic image. Based in Newport, Rhode Island, I am blessed with an environment of unmatched beauty for wedding day imagery.
Also Serving: Northern California, Hawaii, New York City, New York (Upstate) and Rhode Island
Favorite Destination Wedding Locations: New Zealand, Mexico and Europe
Bio: Dennis got his start as a photographer while attending the University of San Diego, California. While working towards a degree in Mass Media Communication, it became clear that he had an eye for creating beautiful images. By chance, Dennis picked up a camera while working for his college newspaper and immediately became obsessed. It was at that moment he handed himself over to photography - devouring everything the medium had to offer with passion only a true artist can fully understand.
Dennis is dually located in San Diego, California and Dunedin, New Zealand with his wife, Jaime and son, Alex. When he isn't busy working internationally as a photographer, Dennis can be found surfing, fishing, and photographing his favorite locations. Dennis is also passionate about music and has been DJing for almost a decade with bookings in New Zealand and the USA.
Bio: Channing Johnson is a national award-winning photojournalist who enjoys capturing the joyful moments and strong emotions found at weddings. A graduate of the renowned photojournalism program at the University of Missouri, Channing spent several years at different publications learning from some of the best visual story-tellers in the newspaper business. Channing has extensive travel experience, including living abroad, and loves to mix his passion for experiencing new places with his love of getting to know new people through photography.
Bio: Andre is a full-time professional wedding photographer. He has trained with several of the most respected contemporary wedding photographers, including Bambi Cantrell, Cliff Mautner and Joe Buissink. Andre was awarded a 13th Place in the Shadows, Good Light and Silhouettes category of a recent WPJA contest. In an earlier phase of his career, Andre was an assistant editor at Universal Pictures in Hollywood, California.
Bio: Jane Shauck is an award-winning photographer who loves to shoot people and loves to travel! She believes in creating something different and custom for each client, combining a creative eye with a photojournalistic approach. She has been a photojournalist for the Associated Press, a portrait photographer for HOUR Magazine, and a commercial photographer for Fortune 500 companies. Jane has been published worldwide in magazines including Time Magazine and the 2008 Spring/Summer issue of Connecticut Bride.
Jane has shot Time's 100 Most Influential People Gala in Manhattan since 2006 and has photographed over 100 of the recipients as Time's photographer. She is a member of the industry organizations WPPI, WPJA, DWF, and the Advertising Photographers of America.
Also Serving: Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
Bio: Thea Dodds is a former photojournalist turned full-time wedding photographer. She has worked for major newspapers, ad agencies, independent film productions and brides to be since 2001.
Bio: In 2008 Maggie Conley enters her 12th year of photography. She studied at Penn State University, serving a term as a documentary photographer in Peru with a biological research team. Upon her graduation in 1997, she relocated in New York and worked under Geographic photographer Steve McCurry and alongside his colleagues at Magnum Photos. Street photography had always been her passion, photographing in seaside Latin American towns, trailer parks in central Pennsylvania, and circus performers in France. In 1999, Maggie began turning inward and photographing her own family. This created an appreciation for family heirlooms and ultimately launched her business shooting weddings and family portraits. She is an award winning WPJA photographer and a proud shooter of film and medium format cameras. Her style of photojournalism has her street aesthetic tangled up with her personal whimsical sensibility.
Bio: Connie Miller is both a gifted artist and a reliable professional who loves her work. Formally trained at Wheaton College in fine art photography, Connie possesses a unique sensibility that allows her to consistently endow her images with compositional strength, emotional insight, and an understated elegance. Her work has appeared in publications such as O magazine, Brides Boston, and Labella Bride. Currently residing in Newton, Massachusetts, Connie photographs weddings throughout New England, but greatly enjoys documenting events in Tennessee as well, as Knoxville was her childhood home.
The Artistic Guild of the WPJA puts some of the best fine art wedding photographers at your fingertips! The AG takes the world-renowned artistic approach of WPJA wedding photojournalists to yet another level through post-production processing (usually Photoshop). WPJA photographers define artistic wedding photography!
If you choose one of our WPJA Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island 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 smallest of the fifty states, Rhode Island contains much, including 400 miles of shoreline that will add brilliance to your wedding occasion along with the memorable photographs that will be taken by your wedding photojournalist. Known as the Ocean State, Rhode Island offers many wedding destinations and wedding photography locations. Take advantage of the oceanic beauty for your wedding celebration; from Rhode Island’s soothing East Bay and Narragansett Bay to the picturesque Watch Hill peninsula. Included in this array of oceanic beauty is Newport which is known for its charming wedding and vacation destinations. With its elegantly stunning mansions and flowing beaches, Newport is a magnificent wedding location for couples who desire to celebrate their memorable day with stylish architecture and peaceful seascapes as a pictorial wedding backdrop. Your wedding party and guests will have an enjoyable stay in downtown Providence, especially near the attractive mall called Providence Place, a large scaled mall with restaurants, shopping stores and theatres for your enjoyment. With a quick one-hour ferry ride, you can travel to Block Island where there area endless outdoor and water activities with spectacular scenery and dream wedding destinations. You will find in the state of Rhode Island, plenty of scenic wedding options packed in a small package for your wedding photographer to capture.