Another year around the sun and the last couple weeks with the fam ❤️✨🍾
When two teachers ask you for engagement photos, of course the only appropriate backdrop is at the elementary school where it all started 🍎
Who says your maternity shoot can’t be in a bodega?
It amazes me how deeply I love photographing kids and the beautiful chaos of home. The meltdowns, the messes, the noisy, ordinary moments—they’re the pieces of a season in your life you’ll never get back. Being welcomed into your space to document it is something I never take lightly. One day your home will be still and quiet, but I hope these photos become a way for you to return to this chapter… to feel it all again, without the weight of the mess.
Today marks my last wedding of 2025, closing out with a City Hall wedding. In honor of ending the season with an intimate elopement, it only feels right to share one of my favorites from this year, captured on film.
“I hope you’re my sister in every lifetime. I hope we always share a bedroom and a bathroom. I hope our biggest arguments are always about who gets to take a shower first. I hope the universe is kind enough to give me you again and again, because once can never be enough.
You were my first friend, the one who taught me how to share a world before I had to share it with anyone else. Half of my childhood is written in the sound of your laugh, and the other half is your voice calling my name down the hall, begging me to play Just Dance and karaoke. I hope in every lifetime you are just as clumsy as you are now — spilling juice on the carpet, tripping over your own feet, knocking over everything except the people you love — and somehow I love you even more for that. Because you move through life exactly as you are: a little messy, unapologetic, and perfectly human.
We have never been the same. You are the light to my darkness, always shining even when I can’t find the switch in my own room. We’ve always been completely opposite, but maybe that’s the point. Maybe God split one soul in two and gave each of us the pieces the other was missing.
You make me braver without even trying, and even when I don’t say it enough, know that I am and always will be your biggest fan in this life and every life that comes after.” - @hayleygracepoetry
I’ve reached the point in my career where my busy season is so active that I just realized it’s been over a month since my last post!
It’s a problem I’m incredibly grateful to have — and now I’ve got an arsenal of beautiful family shoots to share with you all once I can catch my breath 🤍🖤
A wise teacher once told me to follow my instinct for inspiration, wherever it leads — that’s how you create beautiful unforgettable work and never get bored. This portrait is for you @didivonbochphotography, BIG FAT HUGS for forever changing the way I photograph!
Someone asked me last week who my favorite people to photograph are, and after thinking about it, I realized—it’s always that special someone my client asks me to focus on. The ones they love most. I love capturing those moments that end up being the photos people hold onto forever.
Work for @alishatova
