Josh Robinson Studio

About Josh Robinson Studio

Hi!  I'm Josh.  I'm a documentary and editorial photographer based in New York. I provide unconventional but highly-polished wedding coverage and engagement portraits to couples throughout the East Coast.

I come from an advertising, editorial, and documentary photography background, working both as a photographer for clients like Warner Media, Bumble & bumble, MSCHF, and Facebook and as a lighting designer / digital technician for The New York Times, Vogue, Forbes, Nike, the NBA, Hulu, American Express, Apple, and others. You can see this side of what I do -- and examples of my professional documentary work at my website.

I love applying this technical background to lighting and storytelling for events and portraits.  Whether you want soft or naturalistic feeling or something more stylized with flash and harder shadows, I enjoy getting to the result you want.  You have options between digital-only delivery, photo books, and/or framed archival-quality prints.

A lot of wedding and engagement photography falls victim to standard, cheesy, repetitive clichés.  Experimentation and conceptual risk-taking lead to the best results.  I mesh best with couples who feel the same and are open to new or different approaches to documenting their engagement and wedding.

For example, in 2023 I'm starting a new photo documentary series on some of my couples.  Through this process we'll go through an extensive audio interview and series of photo portraits, talking about the things that are most important to you, what brought you together, what you're looking forward to in life together.  I'll also create still life images of some objects that are important or symbolic to you.  The result is both a website and a photo book telling your story.  I'm offering this as a free additional service to the first handful of couples that participate.

My associate photographers and I shoot primarily on medium-format cameras that are more typically used in advertising photography and rarely found in the events photography world.  The extra-large sensor (or film) size in medium-format cameras provide a lot of advantages ...

1. you can print the resulting images much larger on your wall, if you want a framed print
2. the color rendering is better and more true to life, and skin tones are more accurate
3. the image appears more three-dimensional and seems to "pop" off the screen or the physical print / page 
4. the camera has much better dynamic range (ability to render detail in both super-dark and super-light areas within the same shot, a common situation in weddings)
5. we have more ability to crop in to an interesting area of an otherwise un-interesting photo, while still having tons of resolution

We also shoot on some other fun cameras, for example you have the option for us to shoot some on Polaroid/instant film and other analog formats alongside digital.

Last, I've been teaching photography to individuals, couples, and groups for many years, and I offer photography lessons to couples who are interested in learning to document their new lives together, whether that's on a camera or a smartphone.

If you want to get started, feel free to reach out to me at josh.robinson.photo@gmail.com.