Let's collaborate | OPTIONS
My photography services are completed using 'Trust-Based' Pricing; additional services like print enlargements, albums, books, and framed images are also available. I also do a limited number of events each year based on the Gift-Economy basis.
Trust-Based Pricing
Corporate | non-profits Events
- $500 per hour
*ENGAGEMENTS INCLUDED FOR WEDDINGS
My storytelling portraitjournalistic services are based upon a Trust-Based Pricing system because I believe it is a fairer and more just way to collaborate. The relationship with clients is based on mutual trust and respect.
Working with me is simple and straightforward: I will photograph your wedding or event and I trust you to compensate me for what you think is a fair value for my work. You choose my compensation package. You can pay me my hourly rate or opt to give me more if you like.
Trust-Based Pricing system gives you control. It allows you to decide the final price, based on how well you like me and how well you enjoyed working with me. It protects my time and my work and makes sure my family and venture keep the lights on, as I continue to be able to pay my bills.
Trust-Based Pricing might feel a little different, but it works very well, and clients overwhelmingly think it is a fantastic way to work because everyone is treated fairly.
Trust-Based Pricing works like this:
1. You request a meeting through this website.
2. I set up a time to chat, so I can get a clearer idea of your needs.
3. I send you a contract.
4. You accept it and send a deposit.
5. I complete your engagement portrait session.
6. You send the final payment within a month before the wedding, Mitzvah, or special event.
7. I complete your wedding, Mitzvah, or special event.
Granted, this is not the way most photographers work; in fact, it’s not the way most of the business world works. It seems to me that things are changing, however, and I invite you to consider being a part of something special: a business relationship founded on mutual trust and gratitude.
Gift Economy Pricing
Since 2002, I have been working with the Gift Economy idea. While it is a very rewarding way to work, I found it is not sustainable outside of our local community.
As I continued to grow larger and attract a wider client base, I discovered that people outside our community – who I did not know personally, who were not local to me, and who I could not meet with in person — too frequently did not support my work sufficiently. Sadly, sometimes not at all.
The community is essential for a successful Gift Economy, so I have decided to set some healthy boundaries for working this way.
I am eager to work in a Gift Economy with local individuals, small businesses, community-based organizations, and progressive and non-profit organizations. Generally, with people who are trying to help other people. I want to help as many organizations as I can. However, I am very selective about the projects I choose to work on this way, and I am limiting the number of Gift Economy projects I’ll take on each year.
If you would like to work with me in a Gift Economy, I want to ensure it is a mutually rewarding experience. Please contact me requesting the need to work with the Gift Economy option so I can review your needs and determine if we are a good match for each other.
OPTIONS
Weddings
Starting at $2,500
I want to capture the love and happiness that people experience on their special days. Whether it is a wedding, a mitzvah, a quinceañera, or a corporate event, I want to be there to witness those moments of pure bliss.
MITZVAH (BAT/BAR)
Starting at $2,500
Words echoed in my head as I set out to capture my next shot - "I co-create artistic expressions. If I minimally intervene, the artistic imagery is given to me.
QUINCEAÑERAS | SWEET 16
Starting at $2,500
The challenge is looking for those special moments that will become more, elevating the images to art, so that anyone looking at them will respond to and understand the memories created. I photograph to capture spontaneous moments that no one else sees.
CORPORATE EVENTS
$500 per hour
I’ve learned this; the main purpose of photography or any other artistic expressions is to be able to learn how to develop a full creative expressiveness and fluency! This is the main reason I describe my photography as storytelling portraitjournalism.
FAMILY PORTRAITS
$500 per hour
In my 20 plus and still counting career, I have completed over 2,000 weddings, Mitzvahs and events. I have also co-created infinite numbers of photographs under what I refer to as ‘expressionistic fluency’.
FUNERALS
$500 per hour
Gatherings where family members, relatives, friends, and loved ones come together to commemorate and express their deep affection for one another.
INDIVIDUAL PORTRAITS
$500 per hour
Portraitjournalism is a blend of art and storytelling. It’s about going beneath the surface and capturing the essence of a subject.
BIRTHING
$500 per hour
Children or babies are a blessing bestowed by nature, and a mother is no less than a miracle to be able to give birth to new lives.
NON-PROFITS
$500 per hour
We have to believe in a more beautiful world in order to serve it.
Charles Eisenstein
Testimonials
LARS & JOSEPHINE
