"You know, maybe you don't need the whole world to love you, maybe you just need one person to love you"
Chellise & Mike
We have 14 years of experience in digital and film photography with an unapologetic approach to documenting weddings while continuously exploring our processes with relentless curiosity. If we didn’t, we would have burnt out long ago, but every year, we fall more in love with our work and keep adding more couples to our friend list. We attract like-minded lovers who want something “a little different,” more real, and less staged.
Lucky for us, our clients give us full carte blanche, allowing us to follow our intuition & freeing us from the restraints of taking cliche and staged photos (matching pajama photos, a veil over the groom’s head, you get the picture)
We are part of the small echelon of Brooklyn photographers that paved the way for dismantling staged & traditional wedding photography, bringing new life to the way wedding stories were told, and to this day, we wear that badge proudly. Among the many accolades we have received, our favs are being named “Top Wedding Photographers Doing Things Differently” & “30 Rising Stars” by Rangefinder Magazine, “Best of the Best” by Junebug Weddings (a vote of the best vendors by vendors) and “Best of Weddings” by New York Magazine, and having work published in top mags such as Vogue, Brides, Anti-Bride, The Cut, etc.
As Artists, describing our work is a gut-wrenching internal battle, so we lean on what our trusty colleagues & clients have to say. They use words such as: “candid, film, effortlessly editorial, analog, romantic. emotive. nostalgic, rowdy. free-spirited, documentary, anti-wedding”
-Chellise & Michael
LOVE FOR ALL, regardless of ethnicity, age, race, class, gender identity, disability, body shape or size, culture, or religion.
It’s About You…
and welcoming us into your tight circle of friends and family that will encompass your wedding day. Taking part in this story of yours is truly an incredible honor & experience. The more access & willingness we get from you & them, the better our work becomes.
We feel incredibly lucky to work with so many open, like-minded couples who rebel against the trends and do things their own way. Because of them, our work flourishes and keeps us going strong & fresh, and for this, we thank them.
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
— Diane Arbus
Bridget & Joshua
Michael… Friend,
Had to pull out the full name so you understand.
I think we've collectively looked at the album like 50 million times. In awe. But mostly because we've learned that your artistry deserves time. To look at your photos once is to miss nuance and detail. We were so captured by these, we went back to our first album and realized we missed SO many treasures even in the photos we already knew we loved. Thank you so much. Like for real. We are so, so happy we chose you---we'd choose you again. You caught everything and did it so beautifully. Shook at how you navigated our friends and their cameras too.
From texture, color, double exposures, even the “accidental” blurry photos, combos, in the moment laughs....I feel like I'm not even doing it justice. There are so many more. We 'hearted' like 485 of them and now we need to figure out how we're going to make an album lol. You play with so many different elements and styles. So much diversity. True artistry.
Thank You
Alex & Jess
After looking at the team's online photos, we had a feeling that CMP was going to be a good fit. As soon as we hopped on our initial Zoom call, we were sold. Chellise and Michael had an incredible warmth and familiarity to them that were such a big draw in booking them as our wedding photographers. We ended up hiring Michael (though you can't go wrong with anyone on the team), who was extremely flexible in re-scheduling the included engagement shoot. Neither my wife or I are huge on being a focal point, and so we were nervous to do the engagement shoot. Mike ended up putting us right at ease and popping out some great, laid-back shots. Cut to the wedding - you GOTTA get the film package. The shots have such an incredible warmth to them. The photos don't feel staged or stiff - they transport us right back to some of our favorite moments. Aside from getting just a dope set of pictures, Mike was a blast to hang out with. We have heard from countless friends and family about what a presence he had. If he didn't have a camera strapped to him, you would have just thought he was a guest himself. I think this trait really put all our guests at ease and made for much better photos. We can't imagine the wedding without Mike there to document it!
Cece & George
Chellise - I am going to cry. I expected nothing less than perfection (it is you after all) but HOLY SHIT I AM IN SHOCK. These are everything.
You are truly an angel. I think i’m going to be up all night flipping through….
Thank you thank you thank you. <3 we love you!!
Jac & Andrew
To say we love them and will cherish them forever is an understatement. Every single photograph means something - wether it is something from that very moment at the wedding or a distant memory that has been surfaced by the photograph. The relationships Andrew and I have with each and every person at our wedding were documented beautifully - and for you to be our eyes when Andrew and I were not present is an ultimate gift. Even seeing the resemblance of one another and our families is blowing my mind. Families are so hard sometimes but truly something so beautiful and you gave us a gift and a forever reminder of that. The feeling I am feeling right now is exactly the reason I am a photographer - to show people their very own world. I wish for everyone to one day have this feeling we have right now.
Beyond the talent and beauty of your photographs - there is something so much deeper that I will keep close to me forever.
So in love.
Thank you, thank you for being a part of my life for so so many years and for documenting a very special day for us. I (we) could not be happier.