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About Me
Family, Maternity & Wedding Photographer in Jersey City, NYC & Hudson Valley
Hi, I'm Averie - founder of Averie Ann Studios, photographer, creative director, and pretty much always-the-one-with-the-camera.
I make pictures for people who don't love having their picture made. Most of my clients tell me the same thing on our first call: "I'm so awkward in front of a camera." Good. Me too. That's where the fun is. My job is to make the next couple of hours feel less like a photoshoot and more like hanging out with an old friend who happens to know exactly when to shoot.
I specialize in family photography, maternity sessions, newborn and lifestyle portraits, and weddings - working with families and couples across Jersey City, New York City, and the Hudson Valley.
I'm also a mom to Auggie, a wildly imaginative little boy who has rewired how I photograph families. I know how fast childhood moves - the small gestures, the chaos, the tender five-second windows that vanish the second you try to line everyone up. So we don't line up. Nothing stiff, nothing forced. Just your people, your life, exactly as it is right now.
My work is rooted in documentary storytelling. Before weddings and family sessions, I spent years photographing live music and creative communities - which is basically a crash course in catching real feeling before it disappears. That instinct shapes everything I do now, whether we're in a sunlit park in Jersey City, a quiet Hudson Valley field, or inside your home with soft morning light.
I grew up by the sea in Australia, where my love for photography first began. I studied photography and visual arts at the University of New South Wales, earning my Bachelor of Fine Arts, and worked with the Australian Centre for Photography - which is where I really fell for photography as both craft and art.
Now based between Jersey City and the Hudson Valley, I photograph families, maternity sessions, newborns, couples, and weddings throughout New York City, Hudson County, and destination locations worldwide.
Outside of photography, I'm a certified personal trainer and CrossFit Level 1 coach working with clients in the Hudson Valley. Movement, strength, and showing up for your people are a big part of my life — and that energy carries into shoot days. Relaxed, supportive, easy. No rushing.
When I'm not behind the camera or coaching, I'm creating in other ways - painting murals, styling interiors, and building spaces full of color and personality. My home was even featured in Apartment Therapy, which still feels a little surreal to type.
With over fifteen years behind the camera, my work has been featured in Vogue, Brides, Nouba, and Hello May. I shoot on both digital and film, with a deep love for 35mm and Super 8 - modern images with the slightly grainy, nostalgic feeling of a memory you actually lived.
Whether you're looking for a family photographer in Jersey City, a maternity photographer in the Hudson Valley, or a wedding photographer in New York City - it would be an honor to document this season of your life.
Let's make something beautiful (and a little bit fun) together.
Artist Statement
I photograph love the way it actually looks. Messy. Tender. Unfolding in glances and gestures. Bare feet on grass. Hands brushing by accident. The quiet relief of spotting your person across a crowded room.
I'm not interested in perfect. I'm interested in true. A father's eyes welling up. A crooked boutonniere nobody fixes. A bride laughing with her mouth wide open. Those are the things people remember.
My job is to pay attention. To stand in the corner and notice the small things - the ones that don't announce themselves but hold the most weight. I try to disappear a little. Let people forget I'm there. Let them be who they are when they think no one's watching. That's where the good stuff lives.
I think of photographs as memory anchors. Not centerpieces. Not showpieces. Quiet holders of feeling. I want my couples to look back and say yes - that's exactly how it felt.
Weddings can be loud. Chaotic. Sometimes overwhelming. But there's always softness underneath. My work lives there.
It's never been about me. It's about making something that lasts - something your kids will hold in their hands someday. Something that reminds you, years from now, that it was real. That you were there. That it mattered.