The Intimate Story of Family – The Individual Portrait Session » Angelsea Urban

The Intimate Story of Family – The Individual Portrait Session by East Coast Fine Art Lifestyle Family Portrait Photographer Angelsea Urban

Last week I announced HERE that I would be concentrating the efforts of my photography portraits to focus on Family. Since then I’ve gotten a few questions and concerns that I will only be accepting sessions of the family with 2 parents, 2.5 kids and the family retriever. (Ok maybe it wasn’t exactly worded that way, but that is the general concern.)

This could not be further from the truth and I’m grateful for the opportunity to elaborate as this new program rolls out.

Not every family looks like that. In fact, most of them don’t.

Family is…

A couple … committing their lives to each other

A daughter … a child or grown adult

A son … a child or grown adult

A mother … or a mother with her child or children

A mother in waiting … in anticipation of her new child

A father … or a father with his child or children

A nuclear family … married parents with their children and maybe even the dog

A grandparent …. alone or with their own families or spouses

Sisters … just the girls or grown women

Brothers … just the boys or grown women

Siblings … just the kids or just the grown up adult siblings

Extended Families … the grandparents, the adult children and their children

Families by Choice: Best friends or honorary Uncles or Aunties with those they hold near and dear

And on and on the list would go….

The Family Portrait Experience does not have to mean that you and your 37 relatives have to dress up in matching clothes and smile for the camera.

I believe that the Family Portrait Experience should offer up a much more meaningful experience for your family as you make these memories together.

I believe that the Family Portrait Experience should be enabling you to nourish your relationships with each other in this process.

I believe that the portraits you will cherish for generations should not only reflect this experience, but enable you to cherish the relationships.

Below are a few images from a portrait session with the lovely Ms. Kennedy. Kennedy is a prime example of celebrating her individuality as a unique person, but also celebrating her role as a daughter, to a mother who cherishes her more than anything in the world. Kennedy’s mom was so excited for this photo session for her daughter and we had a lot of fun planning together. Her mother celebrated her with this session and preserved it with an engraved Custom Linen archival Album in natural oatmeal linen to match the colors her beach home.

I love photographing portraits of individuals in this way. Because who you are matters to many. You are loved and you are cherished and you deserve to be celebrated!