The Traveling Dress Collaboration | NJ Maternity Photographer

June 5, 2018 By Stephanie Willoughby With 0 Comment

In Featured / Maternity

The Traveling Dress Collaboration is a brilliant creative project brought together by several photographers within the Motherhood Society (Beauty & Lifestyle Mommy Magazine’s endorsed professional motherhood photography communication). As elite creatives, each photographer was impressed with one another’s different photography and editing style and they decided to celebrate different women, all from different ethnicity, different stages in their pregnancies and in different settings, using the exact same dress to make their unique visions come to life. Each photographer had one single week with the dress, a custom design from Sew Trendy Accessories; styling the dress with their own creative vision and shooting it with their own style, before mailing it off to the next person. To avoid creatively influencing the vision of one another, the participating photographers agreed to refrain from sharing the images until each of them had the opportunity to shoot with the dress and submit their images for publish in the magazine. The dress traveled around the United States between eight participants, each very different in shooting style and artistic voice, we are so excited to share this collaboration with you!

It’s been a year in the making, and I’m so excited to share these images with you! The photos taken here for Beauty and Lifestyle Mommy Magazine, hold a special place in my heart. Not only did I meet two of the most beautiful and patient Mama’s, I also got a chance to photograph my oldest daughter Gracen, in the magical Sew Trendy’s Accessories gown. Some of these images will be published in BLMOMMY magazine volume 12 (available now!), but I’m sharing them all here with you now. Since each photographer had the dress in hands for just two weeks, and there was no sharing allowed, we couldn’t compare our images to one another’s. I wanted to showcase the Garden State as best I could, Asbury Park and Montclair FTW! I love the variety of everyones shots with the same exact dress! Scroll down to see my fellow photographer’s sessions and how they masterfully created beauty and elegance with this gown!

Maternity photography is a such a special type of session. It’s not about you, it’s about the connection between you and that baby and the family that will be. It’s intimate, and precious, and fleeting. I’m so grateful to have gotten to participate in the Traveling Dress Collaboration. I’m grateful to be published once again. I’m completely grateful for this line of artistry that I’ve been gifted, and to each of you who help me live my dream.

Traveling Dress Series

My fellow photographers, ridiculously talented, photographers are below. Check out their pages and share with friends. These ladies are located all over the US, and my goodness are they extra talented!