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Documentary family “portraits” I

It is a welcome challenge for documentary family photographers to make pictures that include all the family members. They usually are quite unique and special to the family – and always better than anything we could have directed.

It’s time to fill our cups too – by Kelsey Smith

Yesterday I started to read a book. Not a parenting book, not a book my kids picked out, not a photography book but an honest-to-Buddha-can’t-put-it-down book. In the midst of a massive to-do list that always seems to multiply exponentially by the amount of time I don’t have, I picked up a book. For me.

On being present with your growing family

There is something chilling about where the world is going with social media: we are constantly hunched over with our heads down, not making eye contact or small talk with actual people because there’s a wealth of possibly “more interesting” things right in the palm of our hands. Then there’s the added pressure of doing […]

From one hot mess to another – by Kelsey Smith

The family environment I was raised in was entirely more concerned with the projection of a happy household rather than actually being happy. We were a fake smile kind of family.

5 reasons you really MUST include your pets in your next family photo session: Documentary Family Photographers

We LOVE getting pets in the frame. Afterall, the whole point of a documentary family session is to document your family’s life, and that includes your pet(s). Here are the DFP community’s top 5 reasons why you should absolutely include your pets in your next family photo session.

Liv Stephen | Documentary Family Photography Breakfast

Breakfast Around the World – July 2017 Collection

Breakfast is such an important ritual, one that represents your family life at any given time. But so often we can forget or are

Daddy Cool | Documentary Family Photographers

Anyone can be a Father, but it takes special kind of guy to make an awesome Dad! So this Father’s Day seemed like a great excuse to showcase some cool dads that

Breakfast Around the World – June Collection

Eeek, how is it June already? This year is flying past. So it’s already time for another edition of the Breakfast Around the World series. These photos, taken by our talented community of documentary family photographers around the world, showcase what documentary family photography is all about: real family life in all its

Featured Documentary Session: A Spring Afternoon with a Family of 5, by Julia Erz

Today, we are thrilled to feature a recent documentary photography session by Julia Erz, one our talented Listed Photographers based in Freiburg, Germany. Julia told us:

The story behind THAT shot by Daniel Freitas

When Daniel Freitas, documentary family photographer based in São Paulo, Brazil, posted THIS shot to the DFP photographer group, unsurprisingly everyone went nuts for it, and the question on everyone’s lips was

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