i think we can all pretty much see where i am headed with doing children photos…meaning i will be doing more and more of them! i have never really been inspired by children photos and that could be the walmart/olan mills/sears effect.

the volume of good kid photos is just not out there…besides the snapshot picture being reclassified as art, so hopefully i will be able to make some contributions thats inspiring or at least have an impact on non-parents. i say non-parents because parents tend to see their child with rose colored glasses on and they immediately proclaim that the photograph is outstanding (i think they are really talking their kids and not the photo)! i have seen this with walmart style photography which we now know its not the standard for artistic beauty.

i am not there yet but i do have a vision in my head about the direction i want to go in and it has to be just right (to activate my creative side) or else i just can’t feel the photo, so bear with me while i fine tune the ‘j kids’ line

~ andre

It’s not often that I create maternity images as I could never get the right feel for them. Let me explain, all the maternity shots that I have seen never grabbed my attention and inspired me. Most of them usually had some sort of scarf hung over a body and with my love of bricks, metal and concrete…the two style would sort of clash. I suppose under the right circumstances (like if a magazine called me to do a shoot) I could be inspired to create one especially if the shots were wide angle and from a distance, but until then I am sort of feeling my way around maternity shots to see what i like.

Its not often that i capture images of children so when I do I always try to get the parent to communicate with the children to get the most authentic expression. i really find it funny when a friend of my gets into his kids mode as it just looks weird seeing him act like that! but then again i would hate for anyone to see me when i ‘perform’ for my children

as i continue to shift my focus away from wedding to doing more seniors and now…children pictures! at first i was apprehensive about doing children (and i am still am) but after taking a step back and realizing that not all kids are nightmares i figured i would i would give my interpretation of what children images should look like.

i haven’t decided if the focus on kids pictures will be more infants, toddlers or just kids so expect a lot of changes going from here on out. the one thing i do know is that i don’t want to create images that are similar to some of the chain stores but something entirely different and unique. because of the directions i am going in, not everyone can be a ‘j kid’!

the determining factor will be how you dress your child. if you prefer to where barney inspired pants with elmo t-shirts to a photo session then ‘j kids’ may not be for you.

~ andre & shandrea