Boston Portrait Photographer

Nancy Kates, producer and director of Regarding Susan Sontag — Nancy Kates, producer and director of *Regarding Susan Sontag*

Portrait of Robert Leverett and his wife Monica Jakuc Leverett — Robert Leverett and Monica Jakuc Leverett for Smithsonian Magazine

Joe Kennedy for the New York Times — Joe Kennedy for The New York Times

While working with iFit on several projects, I made libraries of portraits of their athletes in-between filming exercise videos. I often had only 5 minutes to photograph the portraits while fighting off sand, ocean, and altitude sickness, and I loved every moment of it.

Dr. Daniela Lamas, a critical care doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, For the New York Times. — Portrait of Dr. Daniela Lamas, a critical care doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, The New York Times.

Portrait of Sandra Mansour — Sandra Mansour for Mother Jones Magazine

Azza Fahmy, an Egyptian jewelry designer for Oryx in flight magazine.

Niren Chaudhary, CEO of Panera for the New York Times

As a portrait photographer in Boston and New York, I introduce my audience to the story’s protagonists.

Portrait photographers often impose their style on the subject, but I try to be open and let the subject determine the style. Sometimes, my portraits are carefully crafted with specific backdrops, lighting, and poses; other times, they come in a candid moment, as the subject has learned to trust me and share more of who they are.

This portfolio includes a selection of portraits for editorial outlets such as the New York Times and Time Magazine and commercial clients such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Sanofi. Most recently, I created commercial portraits of athletes and adventurers in far-flung locations like Turks & Caicos, Jordan, and Everest Base Camp. But, of course, my favorite portraits are of fancy pigeons, which I had to capture before they flew out of my makeshift studio on their owner’s rooftops!

Many of my portraits are made on location with a portable studio of Profoto flashes and stands or in my Davis Square portrait studio, just north of Boston.