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Family, Maternity and Newborn photographer in Boston, MA + surrounding areas 

Over 50 5-star reviews on google

photographed 500+ Family Sessions and 175+ Maternity/Newborn Sessions

10 years of experience in photography

My Recent Work

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- Anna Sawyer

"Melissa has created keepsakes for our family I'll treasure forever. She is also a baby whisperer, able to soothe my colicky newborn and captured our young family so beautifully when I was not exactly feeling photo friendly postpartum. I highly recommend her for your family!"

- Erin & Chip

"Melissa is truly amazing. We hired her to take announcement, maternity and newborn photos. She is so friendly and personable. I was stressing out big time about the newborn photos (getting ourselves and our house ready, not knowing how our baby would act, etc.) but Melissa made it such a comfortable and enjoyable experience. I also feel like she’s a baby whisperer! We will definitely be reaching out to Melissa to photograph our family for years to come. We highly recommend her!

- Jennifer Nguyen

"Melissa has captured my family for 3 years now, and each year I just absolutely LOVE our photos. This year was a little challenging with my 18 month old teething and super cranky, I thought for sure it's going to just be one of those "we tried" moments where our kids just won't cooperate and that's okay! but when I got our photos, I was just so blown away by how many beautiful shots Melissa captured. She is amazing and made us feel comfortable and calm amidst the chaos of our kids. She's so professional, I HIGHLY recommend her!!

-Danielle Hall

"Melissa has such a gift for capturing those newborn days exactly as they are. At one month postpartum, I definitely didn’t feel completely put together or particularly beautiful, but she made me feel so comfortable and somehow captured photos where I genuinely love how I look. More importantly, she captured our daughter and our new little family so perfectly.

Those first few weeks are such a blur, and these photos already feel priceless. She captured all the tiny details and emotions of that stage that I know we’ll want to remember forever. We couldn’t recommend Melissa more and will absolutely use her for family photos for years to come." 

- Katie Legro

"I don’t think I can say enough kind things about Melissa! I was looking into booking an extended family photoshoot but we had some extenuating circumstances. Melissa went above and beyond to accommodate us and make all our photography dreams come true! We were also working with 6 kids ages 4 months to 6 years old so we had low expectations any of them would cooperate. Well let me just say Melissa is an absolute magician and we got some of the most precious photos of these kids. I hope the stars align and we get to work with Melissa again!"

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