Your fiancé forgetting his vows. Your mom grabbing your dad’s hand during the ring exchange. Your flower girl spinning in circles during cocktail hour.
You'd rather be living it than performing for it.
I photograph how it felt. No stiff poses. No coached laughs. No cringe wedding party photos.
Not how you looked, but who you are. The way you two move through a room and laugh together.
So that someday your kids don’t just see your wedding, they feel it.
Mark Davidson Photography covers weddings in Sarasota, Florida and Boston, Massachusetts: documentary wedding photography, wedding films, engagement sessions, wedding albums, second photographers, elopements in both cities, and long-term archiving of your finished wedding photographs.
Documentary wedding photography is what I’ve done for twenty years: I photograph your wedding as it actually happens, in Sarasota and in Boston, with no posing and no shot list. No stiff poses, no coached laughs, no wedding party lineups. See how documentary coverage works, or recent weddings in Boston and Sarasota.
Wedding films are shot the same documentary way as the photographs, and I film alongside the photography in both Boston and Sarasota — when a day needs a dedicated crew, one of my associate video teams shoots it with me. You can have a highlight film, or full-length coverage of the ceremony, toasts and dances in Boston and Sarasota. There is also hybrid photo and video coverage in Boston and Sarasota.
An engagement session is a short, unposed shoot before the wedding — a Sarasota beach, a Boston street, somewhere you’d actually go — and it’s the easiest way to get used to being photographed before the day that counts. Couples use the pictures for save-the-dates, wedding websites and guest books. Here is what a Sarasota session is like, what a Boston session is like, and some North Shore spots worth shooting.
A wedding album is the printed version of your gallery, sequenced as a story rather than a highlight reel, designed from the photographs you choose and made to be picked up rather than scrolled. Around eighty images across thirty-two pages, in a layout you can change, with leather or linen covers. Parent albums are duplicates of yours. Here is how an album compares to a digital gallery.
A second photographer means two of us covering your day at once, one with you and one somewhere else in the room, and the associate photographers I bring in Boston and Sarasota are people I’ve worked beside for years. It is the most common thing couples add. Read about second photographers in Boston and Sarasota.
Elopement photography covers the small version of the day — a courthouse, a beach at sunrise, ten guests or none — and I photograph elopements in Sarasota and in Boston. Most need no more than two hours, and you receive around two hundred photographs. Start with the Sarasota elopement guide or Boston elopement coverage.
Wedding photo archiving is the part nobody thinks about until it’s too late: I keep your finished wedding photographs backed up and retrievable, so when the laptop dies and the gallery link is long expired, the pictures are still somewhere real. Galleries are held in cloud storage and locally on a Synology NAS running RAID 6. Here is how your photographs are backed up.
For 20 years, I’ve been a documentary wedding photographer, which focuses on taking candid photos, and letting your day unfold naturally. I’ve learned that the best stories emerge when you’re not thinking about the camera, which is why my approach is simple: keep things stress-free, and stay in the background.
I’m a Top 100 Wedding Photographer with the Wedding Photojournalist Association, and my work has been featured in Martha Stewart Weddings and Brides. I love a good story and a packed dance floor, and over two decades, I’ve figured out they go hand-in-hand when the focus stays on what matters.
I split my time between Sarasota, Florida, and Boston, Massachusetts, and work alongside an incredible team of photographers and videographers.
I split my time photographing and filming weddings between Sarasota, Florida, and Boston, Massachusetts.
Yes. I built my career over nearly two decades photographing weddings in Boston, on Cape Cod, and throughout New England.
Yes, I photograph and film weddings with a hybrid approach. If your wedding needs a dedicated videography team, one of my associate videography teams will shoot alongside me.
Our collections range from $2,500 to $6,000. We tailor collections to each couple’s needs.
We photograph your day as it actually happens. No stiff poses, no staged smiles, no uncomfortable portraits. You get to be at your wedding instead of staging it.
Send me your date, venue, and location: Sarasota, Boston, or anywhere in between. I’ll reply the same day with availability and what I’d actually photograph. Still figuring out venue or timing? Send it anyway. The best part of this work is the conversation before the contract.
