Find the Best Photographers in Derry

Elyse Carpenter Photography built its following on Facebook rather than through a stand-alone marketing website — the page has grown past two thousand followers on the strength of newborn, toddler, and maternity work described by the business itself as ‘full of light, color, and laughter.’ Originally rooted in Raymond, the business has since centered more of its work around Rochester while continuing to serve families throughout southern New Hampshire, including Derry, and into parts of southern Maine and Massachusetts. An older but still-visible review on the business’s Yelp profile describes Elyse’s newborn galleries in detail — extensive backdrop, prop, and accessory options that let a family match a nursery’s color scheme, and a specific talent for handling a newborn gently through wardrobe and pose changes without the baby becoming overtired or upset. That level of prop variety suggests a studio-style approach for families who want a more traditional, styled newborn portrait rather than a documentary-style home session. Because the business runs primarily through Facebook and Square booking rather than a full marketing site, much of what prospective Derry clients see comes directly from posted session photos and client comments rather than curated portfolio pages, which for some families reads as more honest than a heavily edited highlight reel. For Derry parents specifically wanting classic, styled newborn portraits — wraps, baskets, coordinated colors — rather than a lifestyle-only approach, Elyse Carpenter Photography remains a locally recommended option. 

Kate McKenna has run Crabapple Photography for more than eleven years, working out of a studio in Andover, Massachusetts, just over the state line from Derry. Newborns and babies are her main focus, and her business specifically lists Derry among the New Hampshire towns she regularly serves, alongside Methuen, Windham, Plaistow, and Pelham — a service radius shaped by the reality that a lot of her North Shore Massachusetts clients moved north into southern New Hampshire without needing to change photographers. Her blog is unusually candid about the realities of newborn sessions: posts describe babies who wouldn’t settle, sessions that ran long, and the small adjustments she makes when a plan doesn’t survive contact with an actual infant. That transparency lines up with reviews describing her and her assistant as patient and unhurried during sessions, which matters more in newborn photography than almost any other genre, where a fussy baby can derail a rigid timeline fast. Over a decade in business has also built up an unusually deep newborn portfolio, giving Derry families a chance to see a wide range of real outcomes — different skin tones, different temperaments, different amounts of hair — rather than a handful of curated best-case examples. For a Derry family specifically looking for someone who treats newborn photography as a specialty rather than one service among many, Crabapple Photography’s decade-plus focus on babies sets it apart from more generalist family photographers in the area. 

For Derry families, Blink Photography offers something most newborn photographers don’t put on their homepage: the photographer is a currently practicing NICU nurse. Shannon built her in-home newborn session around that clinical background, which means safety isn’t an afterthought bolted onto a portrait business — it’s the starting point. Sessions run baby-led, with feeding, soothing, and diaper breaks built in rather than treated as interruptions, and she blocks a full three hours per booking specifically because newborns (and sometimes their older siblings) rarely cooperate on a tight schedule. Working in a family’s own Derry home rather than a studio also means no travel with a newborn and no unfamiliar space to adjust to — just the nursery, bedroom, or living room a family already uses every day. Her pricing structure is posted outright: a $150 session fee with collections from $250 to $550, covering both digital files and printed pieces. Reviews from past clients consistently mention how calm and unhurried the experience felt, language that shows up often enough to suggest it’s a pattern rather than a one-off. Blink is based a short drive away in Plaistow and names Derry directly among the Southern New Hampshire towns she regularly serves, alongside Windham, Salem, Atkinson, and Hampstead. 

Crystal of Tyler Reign Photography runs a full-service newborn and first-birthday studio from Merrimack, close enough to Derry that she regularly travels for on-location sessions across Southern New Hampshire and the Greater Boston area. Her studio maintains an expanding wardrobe of gowns, wraps, and props for newborns through toddlers, meaning families do not need to source or buy specialty outfits before a session. She describes her editing style as vibrant, saturated, and moody, a more distinctive visual signature than the softer, muted look many newborn photographers default to. Crystal frames every session around making the experience as easy and personal as possible, offering to help style outfit choices for parents who are not sure what to bring. Beyond newborns, her studio also handles first-birthday sessions, giving Derry-area families a natural next booking once a baby reaches their first cake smash milestone. 

Danielle Bustamante has photographed newborns for 20 years from her nearby Salem studio, with Derry listed explicitly among the communities she regularly serves alongside Atkinson, Pelham, and Windham. Her studio stays warm, 80 degrees or above, and comes stocked with more than 100 sanitized wraps and outfits so Derry parents do not need to prepare much beyond diapers for the trip over. Sessions run two to three hours with built-in breaks for feeding and diaper changes, a pace she says reflects her own memory of the overwhelmed early weeks as a mother herself. Two decades of newborn-specific experience means an established comfort with safe posing and gentle handling, useful when a baby’s mood on session day does not cooperate with the plan. Every session includes sibling and parent portraits by default, giving Derry families a fuller record of the moment rather than baby photos in isolation. 

Crystal Fairburn has worked as a professional photographer for more than 15 years from her Derry, New Hampshire base, and she pairs that photography background with training as a CAPPA-certified postpartum doula, a combination that shows up directly in how she structures her newborn services. Her offerings split into distinct categories, standard Newborn sessions, in-hospital Fresh48 photography, and Intimate Mother Postpartum sessions, giving families more specific options than a single generic newborn package. That doula training means Crystal brings hands-on postpartum knowledge to a session beyond photography technique alone, useful for families navigating the physical and emotional realities of the fourth trimester. Serving Derry and the wider southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts region, her business name, Birth Stories and Beyond, signals a focus on the full arc of early parenthood rather than a single baby photo shoot. For Derry families who want a photographer with genuine postpartum-care training rather than only camera skills, Crystal’s dual background as photographer and doula is a distinctive combination. 

Cole Drew Photography operates directly out of Derry, New Hampshire, with newborn sessions held right at Nicole’s home studio and scheduled within the first 7 to 14 days of a baby’s arrival. Reviews consistently describe her as a baby whisperer, a reputation built on patience and gentleness with infants who are not always cooperative during a two-to-three hour studio session. As a mother of two boys, Nicole says her goal is classic, true-to-life images meant to hold up over decades rather than chase a passing trend. Being based directly in Derry, rather than commuting in from a neighboring town, makes her studio one of the more genuinely local newborn photography options for Derry families. Beyond newborns, Nicole also photographs cake smash, family, milestone, maternity, senior, and sports sessions, giving local families a single photographer to return to across multiple childhood stages. 

Erin and Maria run Two Shots Photography as a two-photographer team, a structure that’s less common than the typical solo newborn photographer setup and gives them more flexibility during a session — one shooting while the other manages props, lighting, or a fussy baby. Certified Professional Photographers with what the studio describes as decades of combined experience, they’ve built a client base across New Hampshire, Maine, and the greater Boston area, with Derry falling within their regular coverage. Newborns get a dedicated portfolio section on their site, distinct from their family and milestone work, and sessions are framed around creating an uplifting, at-ease atmosphere rather than a clinical studio experience. Their stated mission — helping families see themselves in a new light — points toward a documentary-leaning style that favors real interaction over stiff, formal posing. A 5-star average across reviews reflects consistent client satisfaction, and the emphasis on wall art and finished products, rather than just a digital gallery, suggests a studio built around producing something families actually display rather than files that sit unused on a hard drive. For Derry parents, having two photographers present during a newborn session can mean less downtime waiting for setup changes and more attention paid directly to the baby’s comfort throughout. 

A home studio in Hooksett is where Danielle Sheerin has spent 14 years building a portrait photography business that explicitly lists Derry among the towns it regularly serves. Professional studio lighting paired with natural window light gives her newborn sessions a distinct look, and clients can choose from customizable backgrounds and props rather than a single fixed setup. Her stated approach favors colorful, fun, genuine portraits over the muted, neutral-toned newborn photography that dominates much of the industry right now, which may appeal to Derry families looking for something with more personality than an all-beige nursery aesthetic. Sessions blend classic, carefully posed newborn shots with more candid, unscripted moments, giving families a range of finished images rather than a single repeated look. Nearly 30 Google reviews back a 5-star average, reflecting more than a decade of consistent local work across a wide swath of southern New Hampshire. Beyond newborns, the business also covers family and children’s portraits, so many clients continue working with the same photographer well past the initial newborn session. For Derry parents, the combination of tenure, a wide service radius that already includes their town, and a distinctive, brighter visual style sets this studio apart from more generic newborn photographers in the area. 

Derry sits close enough to Fleur Foto’s Londonderry studio that it’s one of the towns Laura Bower names directly as part of her regular coverage area, alongside Manchester, Nashua, Hudson, and Salem. The business is built specifically around newborn portraiture rather than treating it as one service among many, with fully guided sessions designed around a young baby’s comfort and safety during posing. A Rainbow Baby Gift Program provides free monthly sessions for families who’ve experienced pregnancy or infant loss, a detail that says something about how the studio approaches its work beyond the technical side of photography. Sessions are positioned as heirloom artwork rather than a simple batch of digital files, aimed at families who want physical prints and keepsakes that last well past a baby’s first year. More than 60 Google reviews back a 5-star average, a strong showing for a specialty studio in a market where many photographers split time across weddings, families, and seniors rather than focusing on newborns specifically. For Derry parents, the appeal is straightforward: a nearby, newborn-focused studio with an established track record, rather than a generalist photographer who happens to also offer baby sessions. 

Jocelyn Nicole photographs weddings across Maine and New England, including trips down to Derry, New Hampshire, with a style she describes as real, emotional, and timeless rather than trend-driven. Based in Buxton, Maine, she’s built her business around full-day storytelling coverage, and her online presence — which leans on a portfolio of named real-wedding features rather than generic stock-style galleries — gives prospective couples an unusually clear sense of how she actually shoots a wedding start to finish, not just how she edits a highlight reel afterward. Reviewers describe her as an easy, comfortable presence on an emotionally overwhelming day, someone who communicates clearly in the months of planning before the wedding and stays personable rather than clinical once the day arrives. Packages start at $4,800, and as of this writing she’s booking into 2026 and 2027, a booking horizon that reflects steady, sustained demand rather than a photographer scrambling to fill open dates. With 11 reviews and a perfect 5.0 average, she’s earned a reputation built more on couples’ word-of-mouth recommendations than heavy paid marketing, which tracks with the personal, unpolished tone of her own site. 

Frank V. Fichera III runs Fv3 Media as a genuine multi-hyphenate operation — wedding photography sits alongside sports photography, documentary film work, and behind-the-scenes coverage of creative projects, and that range gives his wedding portfolio a slightly different energy than studios that shoot nothing but weddings. Operating out of New Hampshire and covering the Derry area, Fichera brings a photojournalist’s instinct for anticipating action rather than staging it, likely a byproduct of years spent shooting live sports where the moment doesn’t wait for a photographer to catch up. His wedding galleries mix traditional coverage — first looks, ceremony, reception — with the kind of candid, in-between frames that come from someone used to shooting fast-moving, unscripted events. He runs his booking and client galleries through a streamlined online platform rather than a heavily designed custom website, keeping overhead low and, by extension, his pricing more accessible than some of the higher-end studios in the region. With 14 reviews and a perfect 5.0 rating, he’s built a solid regional reputation, particularly among couples who also want a photographer comfortable working a livelier, less formally choreographed reception. 

Brett Alison has been photographing weddings across New Hampshire and New England for twenty years, long enough to have watched entire trends — first heavy vignettes, then moody desaturation, now bright-and-airy — cycle through the industry while her own approach stayed consistent: candid, natural, unposed. Based in Newton in southern New Hampshire and an easy drive from Derry, she’s explicit about what she won’t do on a wedding day — no recreating moments for the camera, no forcing couples into stiff formal poses, no turning the day into an all-day photo shoot at the expense of actually being present at your own wedding. That philosophy has kept her booked two decades in, with couples specifically citing her ability to blend into the background during emotional moments like vows and first looks. She regularly travels beyond her home base to Cape Cod, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont, and has photographed weddings internationally when couples request it. Her reviews reflect that consistency: 15 reviews at a perfect 5.0 average, an unusually clean record for someone who has shot as many weddings as two decades in the business implies. 

Johanna Sorrell picked up her first camera at twelve years old — an old 35mm Konica Autoreflex handed down from her parents — and that early, unhurried start into film photography still colors how she approaches weddings decades later. Based in the White Mountains region with a presence extending into Biddeford, Maine, she travels throughout New England, including down to Derry, for full-day wedding coverage that typically runs from the morning getting-ready shots through the last dance. Her portfolio splits between wedding work and a broader practice she describes simply as “places, people, and art,” a range that gives her compositions a slightly more painterly, observational quality than photographers who shoot weddings exclusively. Packages start at $4,500, positioning her toward couples wanting comprehensive full-day coverage rather than abbreviated packages. She keeps her online presence minimalist — a portfolio-forward Squarespace site and an active Instagram — which seems to suit a photographer whose work speaks more through the images themselves than marketing copy. With 17 reviews and a 5.0 average rating, she’s built a loyal following among couples who want an ordinary-moments-included, unposed record of their day rather than a highlight reel. 

Sarah, the photographer behind Capture the North, spent time as a Combat Camera specialist in the U.S. Marine Corps before turning her attention to something considerably less high-stakes but no less demanding of precision: wedding photography. That military background shows up in her calm, unflappable presence on a wedding day — couples in reviews specifically mention how little stress she added to an already chaotic schedule. Operating out of Dover and covering the Seacoast down through Derry and the rest of southern New Hampshire, she and her husband run the veteran-owned studio together, splitting shooting and second-shooting duties depending on the day’s needs. Their fine-art style leans toward true-to-life color and refined editorial detail rather than heavy-handed presets, and their work has been featured by publications including Junebug Weddings and Zola Weddings. The studio can be reached directly at 603-379-6873, a detail that stands out in an industry where plenty of photographers only take inquiries through contact forms. With 19 reviews and a 4.9 average rating, Capture the North has built a reputation particularly strong among couples planning luxury or destination-style weddings within New England. 

Felisha Lees has been photographing New England weddings since 2011, long enough that “ESTD MMXI” now sits quietly in her website’s footer like a badge she’s earned. Based in Sandown, New Hampshire — a short drive from Derry — she’s built a portfolio that stretches from Newport mansion weddings to intimate Vermont elopements, all shot with the kind of editorial polish that’s earned her recognition as one of the top photographers in the state. Her galleries favor sophisticated, timeless compositions over trend-chasing: think champagne pours lit by late-afternoon sun rather than heavily filtered Instagram aesthetics. She’s built out a dedicated wedding welcome guide for booked clients, a resource most photographers at her price point don’t bother creating, walking couples through timeline planning and what to expect on the day itself. That attention to the pre-wedding experience shows up in her reviews, which sit at a perfect 5.0 across 21 ratings. Full wedding coverage starts at $6,000, positioning her toward couples with a larger photography budget who are specifically seeking an editorial, publication-ready look rather than a budget documentary shooter. 

Julie K. Gray brings an unusually academic background to wedding photography — a BFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design followed by an MFA in Studio Arts from Maine College of Art — and after sixteen years shooting weddings across New England, that fine-art training still shows in how deliberately she composes a frame. Based in Saco, Maine and a regular presence at weddings throughout the Derry and southern New Hampshire area, Gray favors natural light and a documentary instinct over heavily directed posing, aiming for color that stays vivid enough that photos still feel alive a decade later. Her packages are built to be customized rather than sold as rigid tiers, which she says comes from years of realizing no two weddings need the same coverage. She’s amassed 21 reviews with a perfect 5.0 rating, a client base built over a decade and a half in an industry where most photographers don’t last five years. Couples who gravitate toward her work tend to be planning something with an artistic or editorial bent — engagement sessions in unconventional locations, ceremonies with strong architectural backdrops — rather than a strictly traditional format. 

April LaRoche named her business after the Latin phrase for “white light,” and that instinct toward natural, unforced illumination runs through her entire catalog. Working out of Center Barnstead and covering weddings throughout southern New Hampshire including Derry, LaRoche describes her approach as lifestyle photography — she doesn’t stack couples into stiff formal lineups, preferring to let genuine interactions happen while she stays out of the way with her camera. Her portfolio includes both traditional New England barn weddings and smaller backyard ceremonies, and she’s known for showing up early enough to document quiet getting-ready moments most photographers rush through. Alba Lumos Photography has picked up 24 reviews with a 5.0 average, a track record that’s grown almost entirely through Instagram and referrals rather than paid advertising. Couples researching her online will find a Boston Voyager Magazine feature detailing her path into wedding photography, adding a layer of press credibility beyond the usual vendor-site testimonials. For couples in the Derry area who want a documentary feel without sacrificing the occasional posed family portrait, she’s become one of the more consistently recommended names in the region. 

Ask New England couples why they hired Christopher Raspa and the word “editorial” comes up constantly — his frames read more like a magazine spread than a checklist of poses. Based out of the Seacoast area and comfortable traveling to Derry and the rest of southern New Hampshire, Raspa built his business around documenting weddings the way they actually unfold: a crooked boutonniere getting fixed in a doorway, guests mid-laugh at a toast nobody rehearsed. His pricing structure includes a micro-wedding option starting at $1,000 for three hours with a single shooter, alongside full-day packages that start around $2,000 — a range that’s made him a popular pick for couples who want quality without committing to a five-figure photography budget. He maintains an active Instagram presence under his own name, posting real galleries rather than only highlight reels, which has helped him build a client base largely through word of mouth. With 27 reviews and a perfect 5.0 average across Zola, he’s developed a reputation for being easy to work with on a tight day-of timeline, something wedding planners in the Rockingham County area have come to rely on. 

Gloria Bloise splits her calendar between Florida’s coastline and New England’s back roads, which shows up in the way she talks about light — she chases the kind that shows up unannounced rather than the kind you have to pose for. Couples booking her for a Derry-area wedding get a photographer who has spent years learning how November light off a New Hampshire barn behaves differently than a Gulf Coast sunset, and who plans coverage around that difference rather than a fixed shot list. Her portfolio leans toward unscripted moments: a hand gripping a bouquet a little too tight before the ceremony, a father’s face mid-toast. She keeps her packages simple and communicates primarily by email, which couples mention appreciating when they’re juggling a hundred other vendors. Reviewers single out how comfortable she made shy family members feel in front of the camera, and how quickly she turned around a sneak peek gallery. With a 5.0 average rating and 40 reviews behind her, she’s built a reputation less on volume of Instagram followers and more on repeat referrals from past couples’ friends and siblings — the kind of growth that’s hard to fake in a saturated wedding market.