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Portraits
Personal, Family, Acting/Modeling, High School Seniors, Children, Engagement, Bridal, and More!
Events
Weddings and other Parties
Specialty
Custom Conceptual Portrait Sessions:
Pin-Up, Boudoir, For His Eyes Only, Calendars
WILLING TO TRAVEL!
I love road trips! If you love my work and have an event or a photographic need outside of New Orleans let’s talk!
Products
In addition to digital versions of your images I can provide a variety of prints, enlargements, and other products. In keeping with my “as green as possible” philosophy I offer prints on a variety of papers including eco-friendlier bamboo and sugar cane!
On a more personal note...
I think it’s important to tell you why I’m here, in New Orleans I mean.
I wasn’t born here. I was born and raised just outside of Baltimore, MD where my parents still live and I visit often. I moved to New Orleans in the summer of 2005. At first I was drawn to the color and the celebratory attitude of the city, particularly the French Quarter. (As a newbie I didn’t know any better, I had no clue how much more there was to this place.) Everything was worth having a parade for, everyone had a drink with their dinner, and everyone (except for maybe the guy face down on Bourbon Street) had a smile on their face. I knew right away that this was a garden I would grow well in.
I had no idea the attachment I would feel after experiencing what I believe to be the greatest natural and man-made disaster this country has ever seen. It was my 21st birthday and I was doing what New Orleanians told me to do…celebrate, drink, enjoy! With two bottles of champagne, one in each hand I refused to get a plane ticket back to Baltimore. How bad could a hurricane be anyways?
The next day to my dismay brought hours of contemplation in front of the weather channel, that red blob really was bigger than I had expected! I stayed. I didn’t know any better, but I was with good people in a good place and I believed I was safe. I still remember the feeling of anticipation looming in the streets, couple that with a bag of hurricane mix and a bottle of who knows what…people were doing the only thing they could do at this point, having a good time. I couldn’t believe it, a party! I still remember the guy that walked up to me on the corner of Conti and Bourbon to ask where he could find some rum for his drink mix. I knew in that moment that I was done for…this city had officially recruited its newest biggest fan.
“What a city?” I thought; it’s art, it’s music, it’s culture and history. All that and crazy weather! Never a dull moment ahead…and how different from what I grew up around.
After graduating from UNO with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts Photography in 2007 I finally got to work on that creative agenda I had planned years before. Like all fresh meat I wasn’t sure what would happen after college. I knew I wanted to work for myself, to continue to create, to be a part of the cultural and artistic community that grabbed me so firmly when I first visited the Crescent City.
In 2009 I rented a studio space in the heart of the arts district in the CBD…G.Chapin Studios was born. It’s 2010 and the project is still in what I believe is its infancy but it’s growing at a pace I can handle…a pace that allows me to make sure what I’m building is builtproperly…with standards, with uniqueness, and most of all…with heart and passion.
I LOVE what I do.
I love taking pictures and meeting new people. I love watching a camera shy high school senior turn 
into a superstar in just a couple of hours. I love watching families interact with one another through the lense. I love capturing your smiles, your downward glances, and your unexpected expressions that remind us you’re not just a portrait…you’re a person.
Photography is the main focus of G.Chapin Studios but it doesn’t stop there. I love to paint and create art in general. I believe a job without joy shouldn’t be done: Either the job is joyful or you feel joy in doing something that you know is worth doing. This is worth doing…
Fun Facts:
- I really love tube socks.
- Green is my favorite color.
- When I was 20 I took a trip to Rome.
- I’m addicted to travel.
- Last year I ran the Crescent City Classic with a bunny tail on.
- When my friends throw away a can or plastic bottle they don’t hear their conscience on their shoulder telling them to recycle, they hear me.
- My parents rock my tube socks off.
- I’m a friend of City Park!
- I have a lyra. (Ooo, what’s that?)
- I would love to take your picture.
- BONUS FACT: Awesomesauce is not a word, but I love it anyway.
Would you like more know about me? Check out my blog!
