Bio: Julie Brown received her BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. Julie has worked on the photography staff's of both the Oakland Tribune in Northern CA and the Berkshire Eagle in MA. In 1990 Julie began running a successful documentary style wedding business, giving her 17 years of experience in the business. Julie's photos have appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, Yale Alumni Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, Fortune, SF Bay Guardian, Business 2.0, and Q1 (Yale School of Management Alumni Magazine).
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.
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: Carla graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology's acclaimed photography school with a BFA in Photojournalism in 1995. She has interned at The Hartford Courant, The Democrat & Chronicle/ Times-Union In Rochester and the Associated Press in New York City. Carla is also a current recipient of the prestigious Ann T. & Edward C. Roberts Foundation Grant for a photography project based on women and their idea of beauty. This work will be on display in Sept. 2007 in Hartford CT. She lives in Hartford with her husband and two small children.
Bio: In addition to Zoë's BA in film from Baylor University, she has studied film at NYU and spent a year in Madrid, Spain learning cinematography. Her background includes
films, commercials, and news broadcasting, where she has been both behind the camera and in the editing room. Zoë is pleased to be back in New England after living most recently
in South Korea. Still photography has always been a passion of hers, and she is happy to have switched from movies to photographs. Although Zoë enjoys many aspects of
photography, she specializes in weddings and children's portraits in the photojournalistic style.
Bio: Kerry holds a B.A. in Art History from Barnard College of Columbia University and has studied the art of photography at the Maine Photographic Workshops and the International Center of Photography.
Bio: Robin graduated from Southern Connecticut State University in 2003 with a degree in Studio Art Photography. Her degree required formal art training with courses geared around personal expression and core concepts of
art, including drawing, sculpture, painting, art history, graphic design, and photography. Robin's work has been featured in local exhibits and professional print competitions. She is an award winning photographer who continues to
pursue her love of art through her photography and several other creative media. Robin currently resides in a quiet beach town in New Haven County with her husband. They are high school sweethearts and were married in October of
2005.
Also Serving: New York City, New York (Long Island), Connecticut, New Jersey
Bio: Denise Cregier studied at SUNY New Paltz with a concentration in Painting and Photography. She has trained with various professional photography organizations including PPA, WPPI and DWF, as well as studying with photojournalist Denis Reggie.
Her experience includes photographing celebrity events for the Joe Torre Foundation and Christopher Reeve Foundation. Recent publications include The Knot magazine.
Also Serving: Southern California, New York City, Connecticut and Long Island, New York
Bio: Studied Fashion Photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology and at the International Center of Photography in New York City. Started shooting high fashion editorials and am now applying the same style to weddings with a photojournalistic approach.
Bio: I acquired a passion for photography from my father who loved capturing his family's memories in pictures. He taught me how to be an unobtrusive observer who anticipates and captures
the rhythm and spontaneous moments of celebrations. My artistic abilities have been honored with awards from the Professional Photographers of America and the WPJA. My work has been published on
TheKnot and other regional publications. While I also do some commercial work for clients such as MTV and Victoria's Secret, wedding photography is my passion and the main focus of my professional
photography work.
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.
Also Serving: New York (Long Island) and New York (Upstate), New Jersey and Connecticut
Favorite Destination Wedding Locations: Caribbean, South America, Mexico, Europe and Russia (Moscow)
Bio: With more than twenty years of photography experience, my background includes fine arts, fashion and photojournalism. My photographs are 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.
Also Serving: New York City, New Jersey, Northern California, Central California, Connecticut, Arizona and Nevada
Favorite Destination Wedding Locations: Mexico
Bio: Toby Morris has worked around the world on various editorial projects. His wedding work is an extension of his photojournalistic style. His eye for detail and keen perception allow him to capture the truly important moments of your day.
He attended the University of Texas at Austin, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent clients include Newsweek and France's LeMonde, Adbusters, Business 2.0, the Hartford Courant, and others. A Texas native and a Spanish speaker since the age of 7, Toby attended university in the city of Guadalajara and has worked on editorial assignments throughout Mexico.
Also Serving: Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut
Bio: Carl Walsh has been a professional photographer since 1984. His work is driven by a strong desire to experience and document life through interaction with others. Over the years it has brought him in contact with people from a wide socioeconomic range, from indigenous tribes in remote parts of Madagascar, to popes and presidents. His clients include Audubon, Business Week, Down East, National Geographic Traveler, People, Smithsonian, Time, U.S. News & World Report and Yankee magazine, among others.
Carl has received numerous awards for his photojournalism, including multiple honors in the prestigious international Pictures of the Year competition and is a three time New England Press Photographer of the Year of the National Press Photographer's Association. He is also an award winning member of the Wedding Photojournalists Association.
Bio: I have worked as a professional wedding photographer for 5 years, averaging 30-35 weddings per year. I have 4 children and a beautiful wife. I am based in the Berkshires in Western MA, but I have been traveling around the country recently shooting destination weddings. Every year my family and I try to travel outside of the country. We've been throughout Southern Africa, South East Asia, Mexico, Central America, Bermuda, Costa Rica and a few other small islands. When my children are a bit older I plan on slowing down on the wedding photography and focusing my passion on travel and documentary photography. My personal hope for my career is to be traveling and shooting full time though out the world.
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.
Also Serving: Michigan, Northern California, Southern California and Connecticut
Bio: Miriam has been shooting weddings for the indy-bride for five years. She typically shoots 12-15 weddings per year and dedicates to one 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.
Bio:Liz Linder is a commercial and fine art photographer who loves chronicling milestone occasions. Her photographic style is classic, edgy and accessible, with work appearing in publications such as Rolling Stone, People, The New York Times, Boston Magazine, Martha Stewart Weddings and Spin. Linder's fine and corporate art have been exhibited both nationally and internationally.
With a degree from Haverford College and classes from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Liz has continued to develop the skills that have propelled her in this industry for over twenty years. Aside from the education, those skills include a blend of rock-star experiences and an incredible gut instinct for knowing how to capture iconic moments you return to again and again. Although Boston is currently home for Liz Linder Photography, Liz is very much open and willing to travel. Crossing borders is a welcoming experience. Liz has traveled to many corners of this earth, and yes, she's shot in a handful of those places as well.
Some of the best Connecticut 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). WPJA photographers define Connecticut artistic wedding photography!
If you choose one of our WPJA Connecticut 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 Connecticut 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.
Connecticut, along the Long Island Sound offers many scenic
locations for the Connecticut bride and groom to choose from
for their wedding photography needs. The restored whaling village
and living museum in
Mystic Seaport provide quaint New England style backdrops for
your Connecticut wedding photos. The Connecticut wedding photographer
will have opportunities to capture photographs in New England
historic villages surrounded by beautiful buildings. If your
Connecticut wedding falls during the months of September and
October, foliage season aids in creating colorful photography
backdrops. Your wedding can only
be complimented by Connecticut's parks and forests which
offer something for everyone...wedding guests or members of
your wedding party may enjoy a walk on one of the many CT hiking
trails or they may enjoy a day at the beach. Whether you choose
a Connecticut beach wedding, New England style wedding, or
a
fall foliage
wedding,
your
CT wedding
photojournalist is sure to enjoy shooting photos amidst the
beautiful backdrop of your Connecticut wedding location.