Chicago Kids Photographers

Lena Vieira is a professional photographer that has been working in the business since 2006 right out of high school. She has her bachelors and masters degrees in photography where she has used her craft to express herself as a fine art artist along with bringing her many clients ideas to life with her photography skills. In 2012 Lena decided to leave her small town life in Santa Fe, New Mexico to pursue her dream for the big city and started Vieira Photo. She wanted to do more with her photography career started to develop a passion of giving back to the community of teaching photography and its art to students of all ages around Chicagoland. Her work helped create an after school program for teens to attend and learn how to become artists. Lena has a strong passion in photographing the Autism community with working with families and organizations for the past few years. Lena has a strong passion for all areas of photography but her specialty is portraits.

Justin is an experienced and playful photographer who specializes in family photography. He’s been a photographer for several years and part time professionally for the past 3 years. He lives in Lake County, IL with his wife and three children where he draws inspiration from the many nearby forest preserves and wetlands.

Joshua Tammaro is an experienced professional Director of Photography who has worked as a freelancer with many award winning firms in Chicago for over 10 years. Joshua specializes in wedding and event photography, having completed over 400 shoots all over Chicago. When Joshua is not telling your story through the visual medium of video he is working on his passion project Photo Booth business.

Maya has always had a love for photography. From a very early age - if she went, a camera went with her! Maya cultivated that love with darkroom work, photography courses, and contributing to her college as photo editor of the newspaper, yearbook and literary magazine Maya specializes in Maternity Shoots, Newborn Sessions, Children's Photography, Head shots, Engagements and Family Portraits. She also shoots Special Events and Celebrations such as Charity Gala's, Small Weddings and Birthday Parties. If she were to choose a favorite...it definitely would be family photography capturing moments to be shared generation, after generation, after generation.

Jayme Spoolstra is self-taught, practicing for well over 10 years. Each client that she has worked with has left her with valuable lessons which she draws from with every new client in which she collaborates. Jayme wants to work with you to create an experience and a product that everyone can be proud of. She takes pride in image quality and strives to create her own unique brand of storytelling through her images, while still meeting her client's needs and desires. Jayme is a member of the Professional Photographers of America (PPA).

Hey, my name is Grigorij - let’s be shorter - Greg and I’m portrait, family and beauty photographer. My main goal is happy people - Satisfied client = satisfied photographer :) so if you are still looking for a photoshoot, I’m here to help you with that!