Kansas City Landscape Photographers

Charles Graves is an experienced and degreed photographer (BFA). He learned photography as a creative tool and views the lens as his canvas. Charles has used photography throughout his career both behind the camera and directing the need for its use in positions as Merchandising, Marketing and Creative Director in various companies and entities including National Geographic, Better Homes and Gardens (Meredith Corp.), and HGTV (Scripps Interactive), a museum, and consumer products companies. Charles takes pictures because he loves to. His photography is a passion as well as a calling.

I started Monphotography at the ripe age of 19, I attended UCM for a bachelor degree and started in their photo program but didn't like it. So I finished a Associates in Arts degree and I interned with a wedding photographer for about a year and a half and then decided to go out on my own. Since 2008, I have shot over 300 weddings, over 200 families, couples, products, events etc. I've been published in numerous magazines such as Ea Bride, The Knot, The Black Bride, Lovely Day Journal, The Coordinated Bride Blog. Not only do I just photograph weddings, couples, families, newborns, I have also broadened my horizons by doing fashion photography, fitness photography, and look books for clothing companies. I honestly still love what I do, meeting people, documenting their once in a lifetime kind of love, makes my day so much better.