Find the Best Photographers in Roanoke

Stephanie Parker Photography is a New River Valley-based studio offering newborn, maternity, children’s, and family photography to families throughout Christiansburg, Blacksburg, Radford, Pulaski, and Roanoke. Stephanie’s interest in photography began in high school, where she won a national award in 2001, and she went on to earn an undergraduate degree focused on photography along with a Master’s degree in Instructional Technology before building her professional photography business. That academic and technical foundation shows in her newborn work, which blends careful studio lighting and composition with genuine, unposed moments between parents and their new baby. Stephanie offers newborn sessions designed to walk first-time parents through exactly what to expect, from timing the session in the first couple weeks of life to preparing the home or studio space, easing a common source of anxiety for families booking their first newborn shoot. Her portfolio spans posed studio newborn portraits as well as documentary-style family images, giving Roanoke and New River Valley parents flexibility in how they want their baby’s earliest days captured. Clients can reach Stephanie directly by phone or email to schedule a session. For Roanoke-area families willing to travel slightly west into the New River Valley, Stephanie Parker Photography offers a newborn photographer with a strong technical and educational background in the craft. 

Trent Currin Photography is a Roanoke, Virginia-based studio offering newborn sessions, branded Itty-Bitties, for babies from birth through four months old, alongside family, senior, children’s, and cake smash photography. Trent designs newborn sessions to be as stress-free as possible for both baby and parents, offering the choice of a studio session with wraps and props, a relaxed lifestyle session in the family’s own home, or a combination of both in a single booking. That flexibility has made Trent a recognized name in the local photography community: the studio was featured in Roanoke Valley HOME Magazine’s “A Family Affair” feature and was invited back for a second volume of The Scout Guide Roanoke’s “Behind the Lens” series profiling the area’s professional photographers. Beyond newborn sessions, Trent Currin Photography also documents children’s milestones, first birthdays with cake smash sessions, high school seniors, and corporate portraits, giving Roanoke families a photographer who can follow a child from their earliest days through later childhood milestones. Clients can reach the studio directly by phone or email to discuss session details, and the business maintains an active presence on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest, where recent newborn and family galleries are regularly shared. For Roanoke parents looking for a flexible, locally recognized newborn photographer who offers both studio and in-home options in a single package, Trent Currin Photography is a well-regarded option. 

Mindful Light Photography is a full-service birth, newborn, and family portrait studio founded by Melissa Carter in 2013 in downtown Rocky Mount, Virginia, serving families throughout the Roanoke Valley, Salem, Vinton, Daleville, Smith Mountain Lake, Bedford, Franklin County, Martinsville, and Floyd. Melissa began photographing her own family after losing relatives to cancer and realizing how few photos she had to hold onto, and her sister became her first paying client, an origin that still shapes her focus on capturing images meant to become printed family heirlooms rather than digital files that go unseen. With 13 years in business, Mindful Light now offers a full spectrum of birth-related photography, including labor and delivery coverage, golden-hour hospital photos, and Fresh 48 sessions, alongside calm, unhurried newborn sessions that bring a studio-style setup directly into a family’s home so babies can be photographed on their own schedule. Maternity, Fresh 48, and newborn sessions start at $299, and birth photography starts at $1,800. Every session is designed around producing custom, printed artwork and albums rather than just a digital gallery, reflecting Melissa’s belief that photographs are meant to be held, not just stored on a phone. For Roanoke-area families who want their newborn’s first days woven into a full birth story, Mindful Light Photography offers a rare combination of birth and newborn services under one studio. 

Owens-Lugar Photography is the newborn and baby photography studio of Beth-Ann Lugar, who has specialized in custom, curated newborn sessions for Roanoke Valley families for 14 years. Based in Troutville, Virginia, Beth-Ann photographs families throughout Southwest Virginia, including Roanoke, Salem, Botetourt County, and the Blue Ridge region. Newborn photography is the centerpiece of her business, and her studio is stocked with the wraps, baskets, and props needed to safely and comfortably photograph babies in their first days and weeks of life. Beyond newborn sessions, Owens-Lugar Photography also offers maternity portraits to document pregnancy, milestone sessions to track a baby’s first year, and cake smash photography for first birthdays, giving parents a single photographer to follow their child from bump to birthday. Beth-Ann’s galleries reflect a soft, detail-focused style that highlights tiny features — fingers, eyelashes, wisps of hair — alongside more traditional posed newborn portraits. Her studio has built an extensive gallery of client work and testimonials over her 14 years in business, and she is recognized in the Roanoke area as one of the more established, specialized newborn photographers rather than a generalist who occasionally photographs babies. For Roanoke-area parents who want a photographer with over a decade of specific, focused experience working with newborns, Owens-Lugar Photography is a well-established local option. 

Olinda Pully Photography has served newborn and family clients throughout the Roanoke Valley since 2009, giving Olinda Pully 17 years of experience documenting some of the most meaningful moments in her clients’ lives. Her studio is located at 1448 Roanoke Road in Daleville, Virginia, just north of Roanoke, and she works with families throughout Daleville, Botetourt County, Cave Spring, Forest, the Blue Ridge, and Blacksburg. Newborn sessions are a core part of her business alongside baby milestone photography, maternity portraits, and family sessions, giving parents the option to book a single photographer across their child’s first year rather than switching studios between newborn and milestone shoots. Olinda’s approach blends careful posing and soft studio lighting with genuine, unscripted moments between parents and their new baby, and her studio is equipped with the wraps, baskets, and backdrops typical of a dedicated newborn setup. Beyond newborns, she also photographs seniors and boudoir clients, but newborn and baby photography remains one of her most requested services, reflecting the trust she has built with families across the Roanoke and Daleville area over more than a decade and a half in business. For parents anywhere from downtown Roanoke to Botetourt County looking for an established, locally rooted newborn photographer, Olinda Pully Photography offers a nearby studio and a long track record in the community. 

Liz Cook Photography has been photographing newborns and growing families across the Roanoke Valley since Liz Cook launched her business in 2006, giving her more than 18 years of experience behind the camera. Based in a dedicated studio in Forest, Virginia, Liz works with Roanoke families whether their baby arrives at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, LewisGale Medical Center, or the Genesis Birth Resort, and she photographs newborns brought home to neighborhoods across Vinton, Bonsack, Salem, Hollins, and Cave Spring. Sessions can take place in her fully equipped studio, which includes a pre-session consultation and access to a wardrobe of wraps, hats, and outfits sized for newborns, or in the family’s own home for a more natural, lived-in feel. Beyond newborn photography, Liz also offers Fresh 48 sessions to capture a baby’s first two days, along with maternity and family portraits that follow a family from bump to babyhood. Her style favors soft, timeless imagery that documents small, fleeting details — tiny fingers, sleepy faces, the exhaustion and joy of new parenthood — rather than overly staged setups. With nearly two decades in business, Liz has built a loyal following throughout the Roanoke Valley and greater Central Virginia, and her studio remains one of the more established newborn photography practices serving families from downtown Roanoke out to Smith Mountain Lake and Bedford. 

Wild Ferns Artistry is the newborn and family photography studio of Beth Farnsworth, who has spent twenty years behind the camera before turning her focus almost entirely to motherhood, birth, and newborn imagery. Beth’s studio sits on a converted goat and quail barn on a mini family farm in Troutville, Virginia, about fifteen minutes from downtown Roanoke, giving sessions a rustic, unhurried feel that’s hard to find in a typical studio setting. She works with new Roanoke-area families through several session types: cozy studio newborn sessions with soft wraps and simple backdrops, relaxed at-home newborn sessions that let babies rest in their own nursery, Fresh 48 sessions captured within the first two days of life at the hospital, and birth photography for families who want labor and delivery documented. Beth also offers first-year cake smash sessions to bookend the newborn chapter. Her approach favors natural light, genuine expressions, and small in-the-moment details — a scrunched newborn face, tiny wrinkled toes, a half-yawn — over heavily posed setups, reflecting her belief that trends are temporary but stories are forever. Beyond Roanoke, she regularly travels to Salem, Rocky Mount, Troutville, Lynchburg, Blacksburg, and Christiansburg. With two decades of photography experience and a dedicated newborn studio built specifically for safely photographing babies, Wild Ferns Artistry is one of the most established newborn photographers serving the Roanoke Valley. 

Stella Nova Photography & Film is a multi-service photography studio whose stated coverage area spans Washington DC, Greensboro, Richmond, Roanoke, and the wider state of Virginia, making it one of the more geographically flexible photographers appearing in Roanoke wedding search results. Rather than specializing exclusively in weddings, the studio’s published portfolio spans beauty, commercial, corporate headshots, outdoor sessions, senior portraits, and wedding photography, a generalist structure common among newer studios still building out a dedicated wedding client base. That said, the wedding work itself is genuine and current: the portfolio includes a full outdoor fall wedding gallery shot in Virginia, showing ceremony and reception coverage rather than a single sample image. Stella Nova holds a 5.0-star rating on WeddingWire, though from a small base of reviews so far, reflecting a studio earlier in its wedding-specific track record compared to some of the more established names in the Roanoke market. For couples who want a photographer serving a broad Virginia-to-DC corridor and who are comfortable being an early client in that photographer’s wedding portfolio, Stella Nova is worth a look, particularly if the same photographer for corporate or headshot needs down the line is also appealing. 

Anna Filly runs her wedding and portrait photography business from a Roanoke, Virginia base, though her portfolio shows a client footprint stretching well beyond Southwest Virginia, with recent work including sessions in Birmingham, Alabama, and Charleston, South Carolina, suggesting a willingness to travel for both weddings and destination portrait work. On her site, she describes herself simply as someone who loves hosting dinner parties, sparkling water, and magnifying love through the art of photography, a personal, conversational voice that carries through into how the business is presented online, more blog-style than a stiff corporate portfolio site. Beyond full wedding-day coverage, Anna Filly Photography also offers engagement sessions, business and brand photography, general portrait sessions, lifestyle photography, and seasonal mini sessions, giving repeat clients reasons to book outside of just the wedding itself. WeddingWire lists the studio with a 5.0-star rating from 5 reviews, a smaller but perfect review record. For Roanoke-area couples who want a photographer with a genuinely personal, relationship-first approach, someone whose online presence feels like getting to know a person rather than browsing a corporate catalog, Anna Filly’s style stands out in a market with plenty of more polished, impersonal studio websites. 

Taylored Images is based in Roanoke, Virginia, and photographs weddings and portraits throughout Virginia and the Carolinas, built around a stated philosophy of warm, real, emotionally honest wedding photography, so couples can actually enjoy their day. That framing points to a documentary-leaning approach designed to minimize how much a couple has to stop and pose during their own wedding, with the studio emphasizing that it blends into events and coordinates efficiently rather than taking over the day’s schedule. The business explicitly markets itself as supportive of LGBTQIA+ weddings, a detail worth knowing for couples specifically looking for an inclusive, affirming photographer in the Roanoke area. Taylored Images has picked up recent industry recognition, including a Virginia Living Editors’ Choice award and a Bridebook Platinum 2025 distinction, alongside a 5.0-star rating from 12 reviews on WeddingWire. The studio’s online presence stays current with active social media and recent accolades listed directly on the homepage, rather than a dormant or outdated web presence. For Roanoke-based couples who want a photographer who explicitly prioritizes genuine emotion and low-friction coverage over rigid, heavily directed formal portraits, Taylored Images fits that specific ask. 

Aly Sprecher Creative is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, but the studio actively serves couples across the Roanoke, Virginia region as part of a wider North Carolina-to-Virginia travel radius, appearing on WeddingWire’s Roanoke wedding photographer listings for exactly that reason. Aly describes her own working style as laid back with structure, a balance meant for couples who want relaxed, unposed moments captured without losing the organization needed to keep a wedding day timeline on track. Visually, the studio favors natural light and outdoor settings, with a bright, airy color palette that leans toward soft, light-filled images rather than moody or heavily saturated editing. The business operates as a combined fine art photography and videography studio, meaning couples can potentially book motion coverage alongside still photography rather than hiring separate specialists. Aly Sprecher Creative holds a 5.0-star rating from 13 reviews on WeddingWire. For Roanoke couples specifically drawn to that natural-light, bright-and-airy aesthetic, a noticeably different look than more traditional or fine-art-heavy studios in the same market, and who don’t mind working with a photographer based just across the state line, Aly Sprecher is a distinctive regional option. 

Jade Sutherland Photography and Videography operates out of an office on 15th Street Southeast in Roanoke, and distinguishes itself from most single-service wedding photographers by offering photography, wedding films, and wedding content creation all under one roof. That combination means a couple can book stills, a wedding film, and social-ready content clips without coordinating three separate vendors and three separate contracts. The studio describes itself as based in the Roanoke Valley and traveling worldwide, signaling both a genuine local home base and a willingness to travel for destination bookings. Beyond weddings, the business also shoots engagement sessions and lifestyle portraiture, a common complementary offering for couples who want an engagement shoot with the same photographer who will cover their wedding day. Jade Sutherland Photography and Videography has earned a 5.0-star rating across 21 reviews, a strong review count reflecting an established client base in the Roanoke Valley wedding scene. For couples who specifically want video content, not just photos, bundled with their wedding photography under a single studio, this multi-service structure is the clearest differentiator. 

Holly Johnston photographs weddings from a Roanoke, Virginia base, with a hands-on approach that shows up in how she describes her own process: willing to lie on the ground or climb on top of something if that’s what it takes to get a distinctive angle rather than a standard eye-level shot. That physical, get-into-position style is aimed at capturing what her site calls authentic and heartfelt love stories, prioritizing genuine reactions over stiffly posed portraits. Wedding coverage starts at $1,600, a published starting price that gives couples an immediate sense of budget before reaching out, and the studio also offers maternity sessions starting at $250 for couples building a family alongside wedding planning. Holly Johnston Photography carries a 4.9-star rating from 32 reviews on Zola, reflecting a well-established base of past clients in the Roanoke wedding market. Her portfolio, hosted through an extensive online gallery, spans dozens of images across weddings and maternity work, giving prospective clients a substantial body of work to review before booking rather than a small curated handful of favorites. 

Anna Bowser Photography is headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, but the business’s real specialty is weddings that happen far from a traditional venue, including national park elopements and destination ceremonies across Virginia, the Carolinas, and international locations. The site describes the visual style in three words: ‘Natural. Candid. Classic,’ a stated preference for unposed, documentary-feeling images over heavily directed portrait sessions. That destination focus is reflected in the portfolio itself, which includes vineyard weddings, wedding venue landscapes, and adventure-style elopement sessions rather than a single fixed backdrop. WeddingWire lists Anna Bowser Photography with a 5.0-star rating across 33 reviews, a solid track record for a studio whose bookings likely skew toward smaller, more logistically involved elopements rather than high-volume ballroom weddings. For couples based in or getting married near Roanoke who are planning an elopement in a national park, a vineyard ceremony, or a wedding somewhere outside the usual banquet-hall circuit, Anna Bowser’s specific experience with those less conventional settings is the differentiator, more than simply being another local option covering standard receptions. 

Pat Cori runs a Roanoke-based studio, photographing weddings not just locally but across Richmond, Charlottesville, Washington DC, and Northern Virginia. The site’s guiding phrase, ‘Wedding Photography Nestled in Art. Driven by Connection,’ points to a stated approach that blends fine art composition with documentary storytelling, aiming for images that feel intentional rather than purely candid snapshots. That philosophy, honoring the beauty in what’s real, shows up across a portfolio that includes venue-specific work like a Smith Mountain Lake wedding, suggesting familiarity with regional venues beyond just downtown Roanoke. Pat Cori Photography has built a 5.0-star rating from 39 reviews on WeddingWire, a review count on the higher end for photographers serving this market, along with an active presence on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and X where more recent work is shared between site updates. The studio also publishes venue guides for couples, a practical resource beyond the standard portfolio-and-pricing website, geared toward Virginia couples still choosing where to get married. For couples wanting a Roanoke-based photographer comfortable working destinations across the wider Virginia and DC wedding circuit, Pat Cori is an established option with a substantial review history. 

Tyler Phenes built a wedding photography business around a simple pitch: one photographer covering three of Virginia’s most active wedding markets, Charlottesville, Richmond, and Roanoke, without the fragmentation of separate regional vendors for each city. That range shows up in a portfolio of more than 40 published wedding images spanning mountain ceremonies, downtown receptions, and everything between, all showcased through a dedicated online gallery rather than a handful of curated highlight shots. Couples researching Tyler Phenes Photography on WeddingWire will find a perfect 5.0-star rating built across 42 reviews, making it one of the more heavily reviewed studios serving the Roanoke wedding market. The work leans toward full-day storytelling coverage; the portfolio includes getting-ready details, ceremony moments, and reception candids in sequence rather than isolated portrait sets, suggesting a documentary approach to how the day actually unfolds. For couples getting married anywhere along the Charlottesville-Richmond-Roanoke corridor who want a single photographer familiar with venues across that whole stretch of Virginia, rather than someone learning a new city for their wedding, Tyler Phenes is a natural fit. 

Married couple Emma and Billy Schwartz have been photographing and filming Roanoke-area weddings together since 1999, giving Wedding Photography and Films one of the longest track records in the Roanoke Valley. Working as a two-person team means every couple gets both a photographer and a videographer who already know how to read each other on a wedding day, without scrambling to coordinate with a stranger vendor mid-ceremony. The Schwartzes intentionally cap their calendar at 10 to 20 weddings a year, a business decision that keeps their attention on each couple rather than churning through a packed season. Their editing style leans minimal: authentic photos and video that truly represent a couple, rather than heavily processed images that could belong to anyone. Packages start at $2,299, a straightforward starting point in a market where pricing is often hidden behind inquiry forms. Their site displays WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Award badges spanning multiple consecutive years, and they’ve built a 5.0-star reputation across 68 reviews, the deepest review history of any wedding photographer serving Roanoke. For couples who want a film and photography team that has grown up alongside the local wedding industry, and who value candid documentation over staged perfection, Emma and Billy are a fixture worth knowing about. 

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