Find the Best Photographers in Nashville

Amber Dupree Photography specializes in luxury maternity, newborn, and family photography from a base in Old Hickory, just outside Nashville, serving families throughout the metro area including Mount Juliet, Hermitage, Franklin, and Brentwood. Amber’s approach centers on creating timeless, heirloom-quality images meant to be treasured for generations rather than lost in a phone camera roll, and her newborn sessions come with a full client closet stocked with gowns and accessories so parents don’t have to source wardrobe on their own. Amber personally guides clients through posing during the session, an especially important service for newborn work where safe, comfortable positioning takes practice and a steady, experienced hand. Most session types offer same-day image selection, letting families walk away with a clear sense of their favorite images before they even leave, rather than waiting days for a gallery. Beyond newborn portraits, the studio offers maternity sessions, cake smash photography, and broader portrait work, giving families a single photographer to grow with across their baby’s earliest milestones. For Nashville-area parents drawn to a full-service, guided studio experience with an emphasis on heirloom-quality final images, Amber Dupree Photography offers a luxury newborn photography option based just outside the city. 

White Stork & Co. takes a distinctive approach to newborn photography by combining it under one roof with 3D/4D ultrasound imaging, giving Nashville-area families a single boutique studio that documents a baby’s journey from the third trimester through the newborn portrait session. Located at 1982 Providence Parkway in Mount Juliet, just east of Nashville, the studio’s ‘From Bump to Baby’ service model lets families book maternity ultrasound experiences and newborn portrait sessions with the same team, creating continuity across pregnancy and early parenthood. Beyond newborn sessions, the studio offers milestone photography to keep documenting a baby’s growth throughout the first year, all wrapped in the same boutique, heirloom-quality artwork and design services that turn digital images into finished pieces for the home. The studio has built a reputation locally for a warm, welcoming environment where visitors describe the space as cute and comfortable and the staff as attentive, an important quality when working with newborns whose comfort dictates the pace of every session. For Nashville-area parents who like the idea of one familiar studio and team accompanying them from their pregnancy ultrasound through their baby’s first professional portraits, White Stork & Co. offers a genuinely distinctive, combined-service alternative to a standalone newborn photography studio. 

Kali Rae Photography, run by photographer Kali Schlemmer, has spent a little over ten years working as a family and newborn photographer serving the greater Nashville area from a studio in Murfreesboro. Kali’s approach centers on helping parents relax and embrace the moment rather than stress over posing, and her newborn work sits alongside family, maternity, engagement, and fine art maternity photography, plus cake smash and grow-with-me packages that let families continue documenting their baby’s first year. Her studio serves a wide swath of Middle Tennessee, including Nashville, Lebanon, Brentwood, Mount Juliet, and Smyrna, making her a convenient option for families across the region rather than just those near downtown. Kali’s work has been recognized as Top Photographer 2021 by Summerana Magazine, and her studio has earned Best Of badges from Expertise.com in each year from 2021 through 2025, a run of consistent recognition that reflects sustained quality over more than half a decade. For Nashville-area parents who want an experienced, relaxed newborn photographer who has built a decade-long career around family and newborn work specifically, rather than treating it as a side offering, Kali Rae Photography offers a steady, well-reviewed option in the Murfreesboro-Nashville corridor. 

Jenny Cruger Photography has operated a private studio in downtown Franklin since 2010, making Jenny one of the longest-tenured newborn photographers serving the greater Nashville area. Over 16 years, she has built a full-service, luxury newborn experience described by clients as magical and stress-free, with a refined, intentional, and timeless aesthetic that favors authentic emotion over posed perfection. Sessions can take place in Jenny’s studio, in clients’ homes, or in outdoor field settings, giving Nashville families flexibility in how they want their baby’s earliest days documented. The studio experience includes wardrobe provided for the whole family, optional hair and makeup styling, and heirloom-quality art prints designed to be displayed rather than left on a hard drive. Jenny’s phone number, 615.481.3417, connects directly to a photographer whose reputation has been built over a decade and a half of steady work with newborns and their families throughout Franklin and Nashville. For parents who want a genuinely elevated, worry-free newborn session with an experienced hand guiding every detail, from wardrobe to final print, Jenny Cruger Photography offers one of the most established luxury studio experiences in the Nashville newborn photography market. 

Maria Gloer Photography has been photographing families since 2017 from a light-and-airy studio in Hendersonville, roughly 25 minutes from downtown Nashville, and has grown into one of the more recognized names in the region’s newborn and family photography scene. The navigation of her own site lists newborns as a dedicated service category alongside maternity and cake smash sessions, and studio sessions come with access to a client closet stocked with ready-to-wear clothing plus a styling consultation, so parents don’t have to guess what to bring. Maria’s broader body of work has been recognized by national publications including People Magazine, Style Me Pretty, and Inside Weddings, a level of editorial attention that speaks to the polish and consistency of her portfolio. While much of her recognition comes from wedding photography, her newborn and maternity sessions carry the same sophisticated, emotionally rich style that has made her work publication-worthy. Nashville-area families who choose Maria Gloer Photography for a newborn session get a fully styled, guided studio experience from a photographer whose editorial-level craftsmanship has been vetted by some of the biggest names in the photography and lifestyle press. 

Kristie Lloyd brings a rare perspective to newborn photography: before picking up a camera professionally in 2013, she worked as a Labor & Delivery nurse, and that clinical experience with newborns shows in how calmly and confidently she handles every session. Based in Franklin and serving Nashville, Brentwood, and the surrounding area, Kristie specializes in luxury maternity, newborn, and family photography built around bright, natural light and clean, film-like edits designed to feel timeless rather than trendy. Her full-service experience includes styling assistance, a choice of in-home or studio sessions, and guided artwork consultation afterward, so families leave with wall-ready heirloom portraits rather than just digital files. Kristie’s portfolio spans maternity sessions, newborn portraits, and milestone baby photography, all approached with the practiced, steady hands of someone who has spent years caring for newborns in a clinical setting before turning that comfort into an art form. She was voted Franklin’s Best Photographer for both 2025 and 2026, a distinction that reflects over a decade of steady client trust. For Nashville-area families who want both a nurse’s gentle expertise and a photographer’s artistic eye in the same newborn session, Kristie Lloyd Photography delivers both. 

Kailee Riches Photography has become a go-to name for families seeking natural, unposed newborn portraits in the Nashville area. Rather than working from a studio, Kailee specializes in in-home lifestyle sessions, meeting families where they are most comfortable to document quiet snuggles, tiny newborn details, and genuine connection between parents, siblings, and their new baby. Her approach favors soft, natural light and real interaction over rigid posing, resulting in images that feel like authentic memories rather than staged portraits. Kailee serves families across Nashville, Franklin, Brentwood, and the wider Middle Tennessee area, and her newborn and family galleries reflect a documentary sensibility that has earned her a five-star reputation across dozens of client reviews. For parents who want their baby’s first days remembered exactly as they happened, in the nursery they prepared and the home they’re building their family in, Kailee Riches Photography offers a relaxed, low-pressure alternative to the traditional studio newborn session, letting each family’s own space become the backdrop for their story. 

Jennie Pyfferoen has spent 16 years documenting Nashville families, and her approach to newborn photography stands apart from the typical posed studio session. Rather than staged setups, Jennie photographs newborns in the comfort of their own homes, capturing real, unscripted moments as families settle into life with a new baby. She holds accreditation from the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers and has been voted Birth Photographer of the Year, credentials that reflect her deep specialization in documentary-style birth and newborn work. Her style is candid and documentary, described as preserving the ordinary, beautiful moments of early parenthood rather than manufacturing perfect poses. Jennie serves families throughout greater Nashville, including Spring Hill, Franklin, Columbia, Nolensville, Hendersonville, Goodlettsville, Murfreesboro, Fairview, and Brentwood, bringing a filmmaker’s eye for storytelling to every newborn session she books. With a five-star average across nearly a hundred client reviews, Jennie Pyfferoen Films + Photos has built one of the most trusted documentary newborn photography practices in Middle Tennessee, appealing to families who want their baby’s earliest days remembered as they actually happened rather than staged for the camera. 

Shannon Payne Photography has been a trusted name in Nashville-area newborn portraiture for more than 15 years, working out of a boutique studio at 100 Country Club Dr in Hendersonville, just northeast of downtown Nashville. Shannon built her reputation on a classic, elevated studio look she describes as pure, simple, and timeless, specializing in newborn, baby, and cake smash portraits alongside maternity, family, and senior sessions. Families traveling in from Nashville and across Middle Tennessee are welcomed into a fully stocked studio with a client closet of wraps, props, and outfits, so there is little to plan or bring beyond the baby. Sessions are unhurried and baby-led, with feeding and soothing breaks built in so newborns stay comfortable throughout. Shannon’s careful posing and soft, natural light give every image a soft, heirloom quality that has kept clients returning for milestone sessions well beyond the newborn stage. With a five-star reputation built on over a hundred client reviews, Shannon Payne Photography has become one of the most established newborn studios serving Nashville families, known for a relaxed, professional experience and portraits that hold up as lasting artwork long after the newborn days are gone. 

Angel describes herself as “California born and Tennessee raised,” and that dual identity shapes the tone of Angel Patricia Photo — a Nashville-based studio built around couples who don’t take themselves too seriously, including the ones who are famously awkward in front of a camera. Rather than treating wedding photography as a purely technical service, Angel leans into a coaching role on wedding days, offering couples timeline management and add-on recommendations alongside the actual photography, essentially functioning as a light-touch planning resource for people navigating their first (and hopefully only) wedding day. Her portfolio covers full ceremony-to-reception coverage along with close attention to the small details — rings, dresses, invitations, decor — that often get lost when a photographer is focused only on the big posed moments. Client feedback consistently centers on her ability to put camera-shy partners at ease, with one couple specifically noting she helped a groom who ‘hates getting his picture made’ actually enjoy the experience, a recurring theme across her reviews. Packages start at $3,000, and Angel also second-shoots for other photographers on request, giving her wedding-day experience beyond just her own primary bookings. That combination of technical coverage and genuine comfort-building has made her a consistently five-star-rated choice among Nashville couples. 

Jessica Kinslow named her studio La Vie Est Dorée — French for “life is golden” — after her golden retriever, and the name doubles as a mission statement: she built the business, launched in 2021, around commemorating what she calls clients’ “golden,” most special memories. In the few years since, Jessica has delivered thousands of images across weddings and other milestone events throughout Tennessee, developing a signature look built on true-to-life color with intentional pops of saturation rather than heavy filtering or desaturated, moody editing. She’s made a point of fast turnaround times a core part of the studio’s pitch, typically delivering wedding galleries within five to eight weeks, which is noticeably quicker than many photographers in the Nashville market. Package options scale from full-day coverage up through add-ons like a complimentary engagement session, a full digital gallery, and printed wedding albums, with the average client spending around $3,500 and packages starting at $4,000. Despite being one of the newer studios in the Nashville wedding scene, La Vie Est Dorée has built a base of repeat referrals through The Knot, WeddingWire, and Zola, with couples consistently pointing to Jessica’s responsiveness and the quick delivery of finished galleries. 

Adelaide Street Photo + Film has been shooting weddings full time since 2018, and in that stretch has documented more than 250 of them for what the studio calls “down-for-anything couples” — pairs less interested in a stiff, formal wedding album and more drawn to a modern, editorial approach with real color and real emotion. That style shows up specifically in warm, true-to-color images with saturated greens and a glowy overall feel, a look the studio has refined consistently across eight years of full-time work rather than chasing seasonal trends. As a combined photo-and-film studio based in Nashville, Adelaide Street covers weddings across a wide range of local venues and keeps a running blog cataloguing venue recommendations and wedding-planning advice drawn directly from real shoots, which doubles as a practical resource for couples still choosing a location. The studio’s stated goal is to photograph a wedding the way it actually felt to the couple in the moment, rather than producing images that look impressive but feel disconnected from what really happened that day. Coverage starts at $3,000, and with nearly a decade of consistent, full-time wedding work behind it, Adelaide Street has built a steady reputation among Nashville couples looking for a modern, editorial aesthetic. 

Tabitha Turner picked up a camera around age twelve, using a parent’s digital point-and-shoot to photograph whatever nature scene was in front of her, long before photography was ever framed as a career option. She tried out politics, nonprofit work, and international volunteering first, and it wasn’t until 2020 that she launched a professional photography business, originally under the name Tabitha Brooke Photography, before committing to the work full time in 2022 and rebranding as Tabitha Turner Visuals in 2024. That winding path shows up in how she describes her own role: creative director, photographer, videographer, session planner, and editor all at once, running what amounts to a small boutique production house out of Nashville rather than a single-service studio. One of her nature photographs was nominated for Unsplash’s photo of the year back in 2019, an early signal of the eye that now anchors her wedding photojournalism. Beyond weddings, Tabitha shoots artist and musician promotional photography and produces music videos, a natural crossover for a photographer working in Nashville’s music-industry-adjacent wedding market. Wedding investments start at $3,550, with elopement coverage available from $1,550, and her photojournalistic style favors documenting real interactions over heavily directed posing. 

Aurora founded Dahlia Orchid Photography, now the Dahlia Orchid Collective, in 2018 after leaving a corporate job to chase a photography career full time — a leap that has since taken her and her couples to elopements and weddings well outside Tennessee. While she’s based in Nashville and shoots regularly throughout the state, Dahlia Orchid has built a specific reputation for destination coverage, with recent shoots in Cancun, Big Sur, and Atlanta alongside her Middle Tennessee weddings. She structures elopement coverage around clearly tiered packages — the four-hour Jasmine Package and the eight-hour Dahlia Package — giving couples eloping locally or destination-style a concrete starting point rather than a fully custom quote for every inquiry. Aurora describes her approach as laid-back, aiming to capture what she calls ‘wild, crazy, and true to life’ love stories rather than a uniform, brand-consistent look applied to every couple regardless of their personalities. Beyond the shooting itself, the Collective has built community outreach into its mission, framing the business as something bigger than just picture-taking. Packages start at $4,000, and with eight years now built into the business, Dahlia Orchid has developed a loyal following among couples planning both Nashville weddings and elopements further from home. 

Savannah and Jon Hopkins run Hopkins Co as a true photo-and-video duo, a setup they didn’t plan for but grew into together. The two met working at a Best Buy in California, in what Savannah has described as a less-than-conventional love story, before eventually launching a wedding business built on their complementary skill sets: Savannah brought an undergraduate degree in video along with a self-taught eye for photography, while Jon, whose first love was actually music and drumming, taught himself videography largely through YouTube during the pandemic. That combination lets Hopkins Co offer full photo-and-video coverage from a single, coordinated team rather than two separately booked vendors, which simplifies both the timeline and the couple’s budget. Based in Nashville, Savannah and Jon are willing to travel to wherever a couple needs them, and their service menu covers engagement sessions, elopement coverage, full wedding-day coverage, and standalone portraiture. Packages start at $2,900. Couples who’ve booked them consistently mention the pair’s easygoing, low-pressure presence on wedding days — a natural extension of a partnership that started as coworkers rather than as separately trained professionals building a brand from scratch. 

Mackenzie Ryan didn’t set out to become a wedding photographer — she came to Nashville from Los Angeles in 2019 with a UC Berkeley degree in film theory and sociology, drawn more to storytelling than to portraiture as a craft on its own. That academic background shows up in how she shoots: she treats a wedding day less as a series of poses to check off and more as a story with a beginning, middle, and end, aiming to document the real interactions and glances that happen between the planned moments. She married her college sweetheart in 2023, giving her firsthand recent experience on the other side of the camera, and has since been featured as a wedding vendor on The Knot. Mackenzie works across Middle Tennessee and takes on weddings well beyond it, structuring her travel fees around the federal mileage reimbursement rate for anything more than 25 miles from Nashville and offering accommodations for destination weddings requiring more than five hours of travel. That flexibility, paired with a documentary eye shaped by film school rather than photography school, gives her work a slightly different feel than more traditionally trained wedding photographers in the same market. 

Matt Andrews came to wedding photography by way of a commercial and editorial career, and that background shows in how his weddings are lit and composed. A Nashville native who grew up on a farm in Santa Fe, Tennessee and attended Father Ryan High School, Matt studied at Ole Miss, MTSU, and UT Knoxville before a photojournalism class redirected his path entirely; he left a staff role at Vanderbilt to shoot full time starting in 2010 and has since photographed more than 700 weddings, some as far from home as Hawaii and India, though most stay close to Nashville. His commercial client list — Amazon, HGTV, Discovery, Lifetime, the Grand Ole Opry, the Frist Museum, Nashville Symphony, and Trek Bicycles among them — keeps his eye sharp for lighting and detail work that carries over directly into wedding albums, and his editorial photography has appeared in Town & Country, Garden & Gun, the New York Times, and People. An Eagle Scout with a musical streak (childhood cello lessons, self-taught guitar and mandolin), Matt now works alongside his wife, an Emmy Award-winning artist, and his daughter, who has assisted on wedding films. That mix of commercial polish and genuine family involvement is a large part of why couples keep booking him sixteen years in. 

Belinda of BB Jaxson Photography calls herself, with a laugh, “the photographer for people who hate being photographed” — a tagline that has quietly built her a loyal following in Nashville over more than a decade behind the camera. Her work has landed in US Weekly, People, TV Insider, and Moevir Paris, and she was featured as a wedding photographer on Lifetime’s Married at First Sight, Season 10, giving her a level of on-camera, high-pressure experience most wedding photographers never encounter. That comfort with unpredictable, emotionally charged moments carries directly into her wedding coverage: she’s built her business around putting camera-shy couples at ease rather than pushing them through a rigid shot list. BB Jaxson Photography is based in the Nashville area but regularly serves Franklin and Columbia, Tennessee, and maintains a second service area around the Washington, DC, and Maryland region, with destination weddings booked further afield. As a member of the Professional Photographers Association, Belinda pairs that formal credentialing with a relaxed, natural shooting style, and packages start at $995 — an accessible entry point for couples who still want a photographer with press credits and a decade of wedding-day experience. 

Sierra Devin Photo began almost by accident. What started as a passion project during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic has, in the years since, grown into one of Middle Tennessee’s most-booked wedding photography studios, with more than 100 weddings now behind the lens. Based in Nashville with roots about thirty minutes from Athens, Georgia, Sierra splits time between her home base and return trips there, and has built a reputation for being just as comfortable shooting a backyard elopement as a full wedding weekend production. Her approach favors natural light and unscripted moments over rigid posing, handing couples a gallery that reads like the day actually felt rather than a highlight reel of staged smiles. Beyond wedding-day coverage, Sierra has expanded into mentoring newer photographers who want to break into the wedding industry, a sign of how far the studio has come since its pandemic-era beginnings. Packages start at $3,500, positioning Sierra Devin Photo toward couples who want an established photographer with a real track record. With more than fifty five-star reviews from real couples, the studio has become a fixture of the Nashville wedding scene, and Sierra continues to shoot both locally and on destination weddings well outside Tennessee. 

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