Alison Wedd is a Hudson Valley based photographer, specializing in wedding, birth and lifestyle portrait photography.

SERVICES

• Expectancy, birth, newborn, family photography

• Wedding Photography: Engagement, Boudoir, Elopement, Wedding, Family

• Fashion photography

• Portrait photography

• Post-production

• Archival digital printing

• Digital and print albums

• Analog photography and printing, additional fees apply

*Details such as packages, travel and pricing, are tailored to your needs and available upon request.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

"Alison has eight beautiful children, and brings her love of family and celebration into her photography. She was able to capture the essence and beauty of the day for [my daughter's wedding] in the photographs she took. She also took beautiful photos at my daughter's bridal shower. She is great at capturing those special moments."

– Eileen Sanderson

Alison graduated cum laude Bowdoin College in 1985, honors thesis summa cum laude Art History/Jungian Art Therapy-Mandala, junior year abroad at University College London: History of Art. Film-analog photography all 4 years at Bowdoin with world renowned Abelardo Morrell who chose her work for Bowdoin’s photography/poetry magazine, The Quill, mounting several shows which we all printed, mounted, framed. Exhibitions near Bowdoin at the health shop also. Alison apprenticed via Royal Academy of Art London for 2 years to the renowned royal photographer, Norman Parkinson, who made her apprenticeship official by presenting her first to HRH Prince Charles and Princess Diana at the Royal Academy of Art, London. Diana had always inspired Alison as she had already volunteered to care for orphans at NY Foundling, NYC while at Spence for girls high school. She was on the payroll 2 years at Hearst’s Town & Country Magazine during this time. She then tested models for portfolios at Elite Paris, where she started her family after their wedding in the Catskills, NY. She is bilingual in French after 6 years in France. She also worked a year as assistant to late photographer David Seidner, shooting covers for Vogue Magazine. She then assisted the late Bill King, doing studio work for Elle Magazine. Photographers Forum awarded her in their magazine, She donated several fine art prints to charity auctions for Catskill Mountain Foundation, Catskills, NY, and Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School where her 8 children attended after early years home steading/homeschooling with hired tutors, dance with NDI at Orpheum Theater, Catskills, Nutcracker and many modern dance classes. More recently, Alison has shot editorial cover stories for many magazines in the Hudson Valley, including Our Town,Hudson Valley Parent, and Artful Mind. She also does head and group shots for say the Philmont, NY Fire Department. Her work has been exhibited at local galleries and stores such as Guido’s, Great Barrington, MA and Hawthorne Valley Farm Store, Ghent, NY: a memorial show dedicated to her late husband, Patrick J. Wedd, artist which included works by her whole family of 10, plus another HVS late artist friend, Andre Badila, painter-beloved husband-father of 10, Congolese, Hudson based, who had also passed during that time, 2012.

For the past 33 years, Alison has been living and working in the Hudson Valley, raising her eight children, granddaughter now 4, homesteading, moved recently. near Ooms Pond, Old Chatham, NY empty nested, phew! and documenting all of it. She will soon publish her 13 year book project on organic dairy farming, with a companion book for children on a personal Himalayan cow story from their honeymoon. She has added becoming licensed in Reiki, Level 2, holistic practices, and after 4 years subbing art in 4 local districts, she’s back to Alkion Waldorf training and online herbal certification colleges plus @birthbecomesyou cohort 2023-24, certifying as birth photographer in any location home or hospitals locally. Her ability as a 40 year experienced and versatile fine art portrait photographer have only strengthened during this time, and her ability to capture the magical moments of family and community warmth, intimate connections between people, their pets, their children, and their environments is skillfully warm, wonderful and unique.