Portraits & Family

Your family will never be exactly this again. That’s not a sad thought — it’s the reason to photograph it.

Every summer out east has its own cast: the kids a year taller, the grandparents visiting, the dog that insists on being in every frame. A portrait session is how a season becomes permanent.

Alchem Media photographs families, couples, and individuals across the East End’s most beautiful backdrops — the beach an hour before sunset, a family’s own garden, the vineyard rows in late July. Sessions are directed enough to flatter and relaxed enough that the real personalities come through; the best frames are usually the ones between the poses.

Sessions for every occasion

Golden hour family sessions on the beach or at your home. Extended sessions for large and multi-generational gatherings — the whole-family portrait that becomes the heirloom. Engagement and anniversary sessions. Personal branding and lifestyle shoots for professionals and creators who need imagery that actually looks like them.

Proposals, planned to the second

Proposing out east? We specialize in covert proposal coverage — location scouting, timing, and logistics handled invisibly, so the moment is genuinely a surprise and genuinely documented. Sneak peeks arrive within a day, because we know you’ll want to tell everyone.

Tell us who’s in the frame and what this season means. We’ll design the session around it.