Portrait Photographers

Sue Barr
http://suebarr.com/
Besides doing portrait sessions, Sue offers a package for a birthday party celebration.  It includes a professional photographer, storybook album and DVD. Available in the tri-state area and beyond.

She does commissions for portraits, celebrations, special events and weddings. Sue is in high demand for a reason: she catches breezy moments of laughter and fun- she makes parenting look easy. Beautiful, saturated color coupled with happy smiles and locations that are made to look rich in taste and detail.
-Karen

Justine Cooper
http://justinecooperphotography.com
studio@justinecooperphotography.com
tel: 917 309 2133
New York
232 Third Street #E2A
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Westchester
271 Croton Avenue
Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567

Justine, a fine artist with gallery representation in Chelsea, also photographs children.  Her work is wonderful: intimate, casually posed and just plain lovely.  She has a great eye for details, angles and for capturing a moment.  She has varied packages that seem to fit any need you might have. 
-Karen

Roberto Falck
www.robertofalck.com
217 6th Ave Brooklyn, NY
He does family and children portraiture.

Check out his Children portfolio- he uses some creative, unique poses and angles. I like the environmental portraits the best where you can see the kids' personalities really let go. He incorporates brownstone Brooklyn nicely in some of the images too. You have to check out his Underwater series of maternity images- fabulously surreal.
-Karen

Amanda Marchand
Little Bird Photos
http://littlebirdphotos.com/
amandamarchand@earthlink.net
Park Slope

These are very quirky images of families that give you a peek into the goofiness and fun of family life. They remind me of a slowed down film moment: funny expressions, closed eyes, adoring looks and pure happy smiles.
-Karen

Michael Molinoff Photography
http://www.molinoffphoto.com/
917-414-9222
He has a wide variety of work- from portraits, kids, weddings to table top. 

Thomas Roemischer
http://www.thomasroemischer.com/
info@thomasroemischer.com
917-716-2322

I particularly like his "School" portfolio- clean, crisp backgrounds with sparkling light. This series of his might seem a little commercial to some, but I love the concept. Other portraits are nice, extreme close-ups.
-Karen

Jada Shapiro
http://www.birthdaypresence.net/ 
jada@birthdaypresence.net
917-407-1347
Besides being a doula, Jada does maternal and birth photography. She does pre/post/birth photography of nudes, semi-nudes at your home or her studio or outside. Digital, approx 400-700 photos

Sarah Sloboda
Portfolio: http://www.sarahsloboda.com
Blog: http://universityofsarah.blogspot.com/Photographer
718.388.5786
sarah@sarahsloboda.com

You will love her color saturated images that are full of movement, laughter and energy.  Often, her work has a narrative feel, that makes you think you are just catching a frame of a life. She makes a "place" for the portraits rather than just using a studio by using props, cool angles, styled looks and the simplicity of a rug or chair.  Really beautiful work.
-Karen

Warwick Brown
http://warwickbrown.com/
info@warwickbrown.com
212-358-1718
144 East 22nd Street
New York, NY 100010

Cyndy Warwick and Sheila Brown blend fashion and fine art with a documentary style to photograph families and weddings.  You can use them individually or as a team -check out their individual work under "weddings". To see family images, look under "junior". They have really nice, clean and classic work.  There is a breezy and happy feeling to their portraits of kids. I can't imagine how they manage to get such great portraits of 6 children or more in their images- but they do.
-Karen

Comments

[Heather]

I would love it if you gave my pictures a glance. I'm an artist who photographs babies and children in their own homes as well as in my Red Hook studio. They make the most delicous birth announcements!

[Kay Butler]

This information is so helpful and I will use a portrait photographer as a christening gift.