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Amy Wilton Photography
Photographing the Light Within
Amy Wilton Photography
Fine Art, Lifestyle, Portraits and Wedding Photography, Worldwide.
What We Do
Lifestyle photography at it's best.
Weddings
Every wedding I photograph is through an approach I call Fine Art Photojournalism. Both my BFA and MFA degrees in Photography completely inform the way I approach weddings.
You are getting the full story of your wedding told the way a photojournalist would. What's different is that each image is designed to be a piece of artwork that can stand alone.
My second photographer and I have worked together for so long that I can't tell whose photos are whose. Having 2 perspectives ensures that you get double the coverage. If your uncle steps in front of my camera just as you kiss, we'll still get the shot.
Destination weddings are our specialty. Overseas, we've covered weddings in France, Germany and Jamaica. In the US we've photographed the eastern seaboard from NY to Maine and out to Chicago and back again.
We custom design each package for our clients.
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Portraits
My connection with clients is what people mention most after a sitting with me. They say, "Wow, that was so easy, I felt so comfortable." I work with clients in a way that, even if they are usually uncomfortable in front of the camera, they feel at ease.
Whether you are doing a corporate headshot, a boutique family portrait or a senior portrait, I will create a beautiful, honest portrait that highlights who you really are.
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Lifestyle
My lifestyle work is different from most because my approach is different. Even when I'm photographing models in staged setting, I treat them as real people and their reactions and movements reflect that.
What that means for the client is that their customers relate more to the images and can imagine themselves wearing that sweater or eating in that restaurant.
Over the years I have photographed images for variety of clients including Rolling Stone, Down East, Nautica, Men’s Health, Rowing News, March of Dimes and many more. For a full list, see About Amy.
Available for hourly, half day or
full day shoots.
Personal Work
The Child Within
This body of work was literally born from my womb in the year 2000. A visual chronicle of the life of my two children, Emma and Nigel, and their friends, it documents them from their
most boisterous moments to times of quiet reflection. It is in those quiet times that I sense something greater, something spiritual, embracing them.
I consider these photographs a form of self-portraiture. In each image, I find my best and worst traits reflected
back at me through their attitude and gestures.
There is a delicate balance a mother walks when she chooses to maintain her own identity while raising her children. For me, this work validates my time spent as a mother and an artist, in a way that is both concrete and emotional. It also gives me permission to be engaged with my children while still adding to my body of work.
I consider this a permanent work in process, as are both my children and myself.
The Child Within-BW
The black and white images are created with the same intention as the Child Within color photographs. Removing the color allows for a different viewing experience where the viewer is free to insert themselves even more into the story and fill in the color with their imagination.
I Am
This project, originally an assignment from the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, which will culminate with an exhibition and book, is focused on photographing people who feel whole, fulfilled and live with intention.
The range of subjects goes from a man living with ALS who finds freedom from the limitations of his debilitating disease by riding 1500 miles cross country on his motorcycle, to a 98-year old Maine lobster woman who still fishes daily with her son.
I am choosing to focus on people who are comfortable in their own skin to be an example for what is possible, even when it might appear that the circumstances of one’s life are not ideal.
I find inspiration from these ordinary people who are living fulfilled and happy lives and I wish to share their images and stories with others, who in this turbulent moment in history, might need a thread of hope.
The White Jacket
Envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, sloth and wrath, the Seven Deadly Sins. Beyond these seven are many more traits that can, at times, consume our thoughts and inform our actions. As much as we try to be good human beings, our weaknesses spill.
As a portrait photographer, my job is to show the best side of each person I photograph; to portray them in the most positive of lights, showing them as kind, loving, smart, beautiful or business minded.
In this series of photographs, I am rebelling against my daily grind. I am inviting the worst of our personalities to express themselves, the devil whispering in our ears, how we might act if no one was watching, if we were allowed to do whatever we wanted to, just for a little while. With the white jacket on, everyone has permission.
Accidental Renaissance
Born from a desire to photograph the people I know in a deep unfettered way, I began this project. Without a name, I made portraits, at first of friends and family and then later of my portrait clients at the end of their shoots.
I wasn’t interested in smiles or performance. I wanted the essence of my subject in whatever state of being they were at the time.
A friend bestowed the name on the series after seeing a group of the images. The light, the mood, the intention, she said, felt like the renaissance paintings of the Dutch. I took it.
The name embodied exactly my intentions with this series. This body of work feels like the culmination of everything I have learned over the course of my portrait photography career. The lighting, the mood, the subjects, all my favorites.
If I were never to photograph in any other way again, I would be content. It feels like a pairing down, an intentional elimination of everything extra. No background, no smiles, no bright even lighting that eliminates all the flaws.
These are real people presented in the most real way I could possibly imagine. As I reflect back on the images I’ve made, what I realize most is that they are really all self-portraits.
Beyond Divine
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Shakespeare
Every culture has it’s own way of making sense of the unknown: Those things which can be felt but not measured, believed but not proven. Mythology, religion, and fairy tales of some form, fill the void of that which cannot be explained by science.
Through these images, I am exploring the embodiment of the Divine: Deities in human form, perfect creatures charging us with looking deeper into our spiritual selves. Sometimes it is easier to let your soul shine when your exterieor is not your own.
How do we hide ourselves behind our masks and under our clothes. What do we hide, what do we reveal? What is divine and what is made up? What if we stopped dressing up, stopped hiding beind our masks, can we touch the divine with them on, does the divine see us anyway?
Love From Our Clients
Making clients feel comfortable in front of the camera is the most important job I have.
Here's what a few of them have said about their experience working with me.
Thanks again for all your effort and excellent pictures. It was so great to finally meet you after hearing your praise from so many people, and it was a real pleasure working with you!! You have a gift to turn a photo shoot I was DREADING into a fun day. Magic!
Deb C, Telson Health
Business Lifestyle
I love how much people love these photos. And I love that I look at them and can honestly say, "I look beautiful." Thank you, Amy. You gave me such a boost -- and right when I really needed one.
Kathryn Miles
Author Headshot
AMY!!!!!! BEAUTIFUL WORK!!!! OH my gosh, the reason I picked you/your work was because of your ability to capture poignant expressions, pictures telling a story, a happy, good time story. You are a fabulous photographer which is all I probably should be concerned with but I am proud to know such a nice, sensitive, smart and professional person that is YOU.
(its a looove fest....)
Seriously, thank you for your exsquisite eye on Rachel's most special day, Thanks again and again.
Sarah H, Mother of the Bride
Wedding