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MEET THE TEAM TERRYG RU BE R JEREMYSALADYGA MAIKES C H U LZ ZEVG RE E N FI E LD JJ I G N O T Z R YA N C A R V I L L E T I L LY B L A I R
PHOTOGRAPHS THAT GAIN STRENGTH AND EMOTIONAL IMPACT OVER TIME ARE THE ONES I AM MOST PROUD OF. ~ TERRY GRUBER
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AWARDWINNING PHOTOGRAPHERS Awards: Modern Bride Trendsetter Award Collections: MOMA, Getty, Carnegie Museums. Magazines: Vogue, Vanity Fair, InStyle, People Magazine, Town and Country, American Photo, Harpers & Queen, Martha Stewart, Inside Weddings, Tatler, Glamour, New York Magazine Exhibitions: Gruber Gallery, Hudson Yards, Kent Gallery, Mitsubishi Gallery, Christie’s, Nikon House, Camera Club of NY, Bergdorf Goodman, G. Ray Hawkins, International Center for Photography Contributor: Light X Design, InStyle Weddings, I Do: The Great Celebrity Weddings, The Wedding Dress, Weddings for Dummies, Wedding Days, I Do, Vera Wang on Weddings, The Perfect Wedding, A Perfect Home Wedding, Elegant Weddings. TV: Good Morning America, The Today Show, Howard Stern, Fine Living’s Wedding Handbook, Travel Channel
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TABLE OF CONTENTS THE “ALLS”
PHOTOGRAPHERS
TEAM
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SEASONS
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TERRY GRUBER JEREMY SALADYGA
DESTINATIONS
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MAIKE SCHULZ
LADIES
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ZEV GREENFIELD
GENTLEMAN
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TILLY BLAIR
ELEMENTS
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JJ IGNOTZ
SENTIMENTS
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RYAN CARVILLE
APPETITES
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PROCESSIONS
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TOASTS
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FIRST DANCE
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HORAS
103
DANCE MOVES
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JUMPS FOR JOY
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DIPS
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CELEBRITIES
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AGES
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GROUPS
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VEHICLES
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PHOTOGRAPHERS
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MA LEA JJIGNOTZ PHOTOGRAPHER ZEVGREENFIELD LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER
TERRYGRUBER LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER
STEPHANWERK STUDIO ASSISTANT FELICITYMASON STUDIO MANAGER
ANNABELPARK ALBUM DESIGNER
TILLYBLAIR PHOTOGRAPHER
ILYASMALAYEV GRAPHIC DESIGNER RYANCARVILLE PHOTOGRAPHER
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AIKESCHULZ AD PHOTOGRAPHER
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TEAM JEREMYSALADYGA LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER
CORTNEYVANJANKE DECOR PHOTOGRAPHER
ANNASIROTA RETOUCHER
MOHAANTANI SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
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ruber Photographers is a New York City photography studio that pioneered the shift to photo journalistic, documentary-style wedding and event photography. We are an innovative, modern studio that pushes the field forward while respecting and preserving the unique beauty and authenticity of traditional forms and textures. Distinguished by a unique, cinematic approach and a storyteller’s eye for detail, we have always been inspired by one simple truth: life’s great moments are defined not only by their subjects, but also by the effect they have on those who share them. This passion for the power of photography to capture the honest emotion of our clients’ events is evident from your first meeting and every visit to our studio. An accomplished photographer and filmmaker, Terry Gruber founded Gruber Photographers about 25 years ago, after his photographs of friends’ weddings turned into larg-
er and more prestigious assignments. As the business has grown, we have assembled an “A team” of exceptional photographers who share a commitment to our craft and a uniquely down-to-earth spirit that puts our clients at ease. Our trademark combination of innovative technologies and techniques with traditional film and classic textures has made us the photographer of choice for celebrities like Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas as well as high-profile private weddings, events and mitzvahs. Our work has been featured in media ranging from Vogue and Vanity Fair to American Photo and the Travel Channel, and we have earned numerous awards, including Modern Bride’s Trendsetter Award for Photography. Located in Manhattan’s Flatiron district, our new studio reflects the spirit of our company and the clients we work with: open, friendly and passionate about telling great stories through the art of the image.
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL SEASONS
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SPRING/SUMMER
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PHOTOGRAPHER RYANCARVILLE LOCATION RHINEBECK, NY VENUE LOCUSTS ON THE HUDSON
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION SAINT GEORGE’S, BERMUDA VENUE MID OCEAN CLUB ALLSEASONS | 10
FALL/WINTER
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PHOTOGRAPHER JEREMYSALADYGA LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE PIERRE HOTEL ALLSEASONS | 14
PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE PLAZA HOTEL
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STRESAITALY
PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER VENUE SAN CARCIANO CHURCH
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL DESTINATIONS
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POSITANOITALY PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ VENUE LA TERRAZZA
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FONTAINEBLE
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EAUFRANCE PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER
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ST. BARTHELEMYFRE
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ENCH WEST INDIES
PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER VENUE EDEN ROCK HOTEL
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KAILUA-KONAHAWAII PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER VENUE FOUR SEASON RESORT HUALALAI
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL LADIES
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PHOTOGRAPHER LOCATION PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION HARTFORD, CT VENUE BUSHWELL CENTER
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE PIERRE HOTEL
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PHOTOGRAPHER JJIGNOTZ LOCATION GENESEO, NY VENUE WADSWORTH HOMESTEAD
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PHOTOGRAPHER JEREMYSALADYGA LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL
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A W O MAN S H O U LD B
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E TW O TH I N G S: C LAS
SY AN D FAB U LO US ~ COCO CHAN E L
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL GENTLEMAN
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PHOTOGRAPHER JJIGNOTZ LOCATION JEKYLL ISLAND, GA VENUE JEKYLL ISLAND CLUB
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PHOTOGRAPHER RYANCARVILLE
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PHOTOGRAPHER JJIGNOTZ LOCATION WOODBURY, NY VENUE CREST HOLLOW COUNTRY CLUB
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IF PEOPLE NEVER DID SILLY THINGS NOTH
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HING INTELLIGENT WOULD EVER GET DONE ~ LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
ER NY
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WITH A GOOD CIGAR IN HIS MOUT
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TH A MAN IS PERFECTLY SAFE, NOTHING CAN TOUCH HIM, LITERALLY ~ THOMAS MANN
PHOTOGRAPHER JEREMYSALADYGA LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE ELLIS ISLAND
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL ELEMENTS
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION ST TROPEZ, FRANCE VENUE VOLTERRA
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IF YOU SURRENDER TO THE WIND YOU CAN RIDE IT ~ TONI MORRISON
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THE EARTH DOES NOT WE
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PHOTOGRAPHER RYANCARVILLE
T BELONG TO US; E BELONG TO THE EARTH ~ CHIEF SEATTLE
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YOU DON’T GO INTO SOMET YOU GO INTO TH
PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION ST. JAMES, NY VENUE FLOWERFIELD
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THING TO TEST THE WATERS, HINGS TO MAKE WAVES ~ UNKNOWN
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PHOTOGRAPHER JJIGNOTZ LOCATION CARLSTADT, NJ VENUE II VILLAGIO
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AN, INTO THE FIRE ~ Tertullian
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ PHOTOGRAPHER LOCATIONTERRYGRUBER NEW YORK, NY LOCATION NEW YORK, NYCLUB VENUE UNIVERSITY
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL SENTIMENTS
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION MANCHESTER, VT VENUE SOUTHERN VERMONT ART CENTER
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION BROOKLYN, NY VENUE WEYLIN B. SEYMOUR’S
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PHOTOGRAPHER ZEVGREENFIELD LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE PIERRE HOTEL
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION BEDFORD, NY
MEN NEED TO FEEL NEEDED AND WOMEN NEED TO FEEL LOVED ~ SONS OF ANARCHY
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PHOTOGRAPHER PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION LOCATION NEWNEW YORK, YORK, NY NY VENUE PALACE HOTEL
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL APPETITES
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE PLAZA HOTEL
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PHOTOGRAPHER JEREMYSALADYGA
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PHOTOGRAPHER RYANCARVILLE LOCATION NEW YORK, NY
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PHOTOGRAPHER JJIGNOTZ LOCATION MALIBU, CA VENUE THE SUNSET RESTARAUNT
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL PROCESSIONS
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER PHOTOGRAPHER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY LOCATION VENUE CHURCH OF ST. IGNATIUS LOYOLA
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PHOTOGRAPHER JEREMYSALADYGA LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE GOTHAM HALL
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION EAST HAMPTON, NY VENUE PRIVATE HOME
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PHOTOGRAPHER JEREMYSALADYGA LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL TOASTS
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE UNIVERSITY CLUB
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION VILLANOVA, PA VENUE ARDROSSAN ESTATE
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRY LOCATION NEW Y VENUE POWER AMERI NATUR
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YGRUBER YORK, NY R HOUSE THEATRE, ICAN MUSEUM OF RAL HISTORY
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL FIRST DANCES
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PHOTOGRAPHER JEREMYSALADYGA PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE CIPRIANI WALL STREET
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PHOTOGRAPHER JEREMYSALADYGA LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE PLAZA HOTEL
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE CENTER 548
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PHOTOGRAPHER JJIGNOTZ LOCATION WOODBURY, NY VENUE CREST HOLLOW COUNTRY CLUB
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, WHALE ROOM
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL HORAS
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY
PHOTOGRAPHER JEREMYSALADYGA LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE WAVE HILL
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRU LOCATION WASHINGTO VENUE KENNEDY C
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UBER TON DC CENTER
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PHOTOGRAPHER JJIGNOTZ LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE MANHATTAN PENTHOUSE
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION LONG BEACH ISLAND, NJ VENUE MALLARD YACHT CLUB
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LET US R ALLHORAS | 111
PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION BOSTON, MA VENUE BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
REJOICE & BE GLAD ALLHORAS | 112
PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION DEAL, NJ VENUE PRIVATE HOME
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL DANCE MOVES
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TRUST ME YOU CAN DANCE ~ VODKA
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION BRIDGEWATERS, NY
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PHOTOGRAPHER JJIGNOTZ LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE MANHATTAN PENTHOUSE
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE RITZ CARLTON HOTEL
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ALMOST NOBODY DANCES SOBER, UNLESS THEY ARE INSANE
~ HP LOVECRAFT
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE CIPRIANI WALL STREET
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL JUMPS FOR JOY
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE THE NEW YORK PALACE HOTEL
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PHOTOGRAPHER JEREMYSALADYGA LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION JAMAICA VENUE ROUND HILL RESORT
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PHOTOGRAPHER TILLYBLAIR
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER PHOTOGRAPHER JJIGNOTZ LOCATION NEW YORK, NY LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE MANHATTAN PENTHOUSE
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL THE DIPS
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PHOTOGRAPHER ZEVGREENFIELD VENUE NEWPORT, RI
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PHOTOGRAPHER RYANCARVILLE
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION BERNARDSVILLE, NJ VENUE CARRIAGE HOUSE AT UPTON PYNE
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL CELEBRITIES
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE ST. PATRICK’S OLD CATHEDRAL
PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION KATONAH, NY VENUE CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND ARTS
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PHOTOGRAPHER JEREMYSALADYGA LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE PIERRE HOTEL
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE PLAZA HOTEL
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL AGES
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YOU KNOW WHAT THE GREAT THING ABOUT BABIES IS? THEY ARE LIKE LITTLE BUNDLES OF HOPE. LIKE THE FUTURE IN A BASKET ~ LISH MCBRIDE
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION EAST HAMPTON, NY
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BEDTIME SO OFTEN THINGS ARE REALLY
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N ARRIVES JUST WHEN GETTING INTERESTING ~ DANIEL HANDLER
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PHOTOGRAPHER ZEVGREENFIELD LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE CIPRIANI 42ND STREET
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE THE PIERRE
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE CIPRIANI, WALL STREET
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL GRAND BALLROOM
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION EAST HAMPTON, NY VENUE PRIVATE HOME
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL GROUPS
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION ASTOR HALL VENUE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE SANTACON - INTREPID MUSEUM
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE DAVID H. KOCH THEATRE LINCOLN CENTER ALLGROUPS | 165
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE POWER HOUSE THEATRE, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
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PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ALL VEHICLES
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PHOTOGRAPHER ZEVGREENFIELD LOCATION FREEHOLD, NJ VENUE ROLLING HILLS COUNTRY CLUB
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION EAST HAMPTON, NY VENUE PRIVATE HOME
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IT IS A ROUGH ROAD THAT LEADS
PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEWPORT, RI VENUE PRIVATE HOME
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TO THE HEIGHTS OF GREATNESS ~ LUCIUS SENECA
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE CENTER 548
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION VILLANOVA, PA VENUE ARDROSSAN ESTATE
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PHOTOGRAPHER MAIKESCHULZ LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE CENTER 548
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PHOTOGRAPHER TERRYGRUBER LOCATION NEW YORK, NY VENUE ST. REGIS HOTEL
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MEET THE PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR THE “ALLS”
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TERRYGRUBER
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or as long as I can remember I deeper roots in NYC and returned was going to museum exhibits to photography with a mission to be and documenting passages of a photojournalist who divined the my life with cameras. I had a natural pulse of New York through photogaffinity to viewing the world through raphy. In 1989 I founded Gruber a lens, and the camera increased Photographers, a NYC wedding my level of comfort while interacting photography business, predicated on with it. In my senior year at college I event photojournalism. I applied the photographed the Vassar yearbook. narrative film technique of shooting Unexpected headlines in the NY scenes with a master shot, medium Times, People Magazine and Esshot, and close-up and expanded quire, highlighted the uniqueness of the boundaries of the production by the yearbook. Each publication, even using a second photographer, photo the Johnny Carson’s monologue assistant, ballroom lighting, multiadded “photogple cameras, rapher” as My professional life would prime lenses, a prefix to never have been the same high speed film my name. shooting if my mother, an internation- and The notoriety previously unally exhibited painter and helped me land heard of sculptor, hadn’t warned me a job as a phonumbers ‘Never become an artist!’ to assistant to of rolls of celebrity fashion film. The and beauty photographer Francesco result? Wedding albums that had Scavullo. While Scavullo shot covdrama and a busy assignment calers for Cosmopolitan and fashion endar. To expand the roster I trained stories for Vogue, I countered by my assistants to emulate my techshooting portraits of survivalist cats nique and event coverage. Twenty adopted by shops and businesses. plus years later assistants long since These photos became the basis for grew into featured photographers: the Harper and Row book “Working Jeremy, Zev, Maike, JJ, Ryan, and Cats”. A sequel “Fat Cats” followed Tilly who are the heart and soul of and I finished the trilogy with a Gruber Photographers. Our shared parody of yearbooks entitled “Cat edict is to treat each assignment High: The Yearbook.” My desire to with humor, sensitivity and cinema tell stories was the impetus to atverité awareness. Together as a tend film school at Columbia where team we have gained the reputation I received an MFA in Screenwriting of photographers who execute most and Directing. My thesis film under high pressure, large-scale assignadvisor Martin Scorsese, “Not Just ments for clients who expect the Any Flower,” won numerous awards most from hiring the best. and was an audience favorite at the Sundance Film Festival. I grew
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attended Parsons School of photographed many mitzvahs and Design in NYC where I gradumilestone events, and continue to ated with honors and an MFA in tell the stories of many of my bride’s Photography. My first year out of lives with their maternity, newborn, college was spent working as a and family shoots. I have an unfreelance photography assistant posed narrative style where I look for fashion and editorial photografor the natural beauty, truth, emotion, phers. One day, my roommate came and telling moments that construct home one day with a business card the photo essay of the event. To me of a wedding photographing is My interest in art dates photographer. the art of obback to my childhood. serving: finding Soon after, My father was a success- something interone Saturday in 1994, I found ful painter and he always esting out of the myself at Sleepy ordinary. encouraged me to Hollow Country My images attend art school. Club on my first have been pubwedding assignment with Terry lished in New York Magazine, Inside Gruber. The assisting job started Weddings, Ok, People, and In Style. like most others but then everything My personal photography has been was different. The client was the exhibited at Michael Foley Gallery, talent‌the photographer let things The Museum of the City of New happen naturally. We were photoYork, and Silvermine Guild Art Cenjournalists at a wedding observing ter. My fine art photography like my human nature and it was amazing. wedding and event photography is a From that moment on I was hooked. response to the world I observe from I became a featured photographer in walks in my own back yard to travels 1996 and I have not looked back. In abroad and also includes my two that time I have discovered my pasyoung boys. My commercial specialsion for weddings, large and small, ty is interior design and architecture from Vienna to Singapore, from the with clients like Knoll, and MOMA. modest to the celebrity. I have also
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MAIKESCHULZ I to be inspired and inspire others decided to pursue a degree in with images that capture the best Photography and my photojournaland most memorable moments. I ism professor Ulrich Mack, a top expend a lot of energy talking with photographer in Europe, hired me the bride prior to the wedding day to work in his studio. He taught me and those conversations allow me to that it is one thing to photograph intuit what will make their wedding people; it is another to make others photography a success. I work very care about them by revealing the hard to exceed core of their huI grew up in Herne, a small those expecmanness. town in Germany. In my tations. I make In 1992 I teens I fantasized I’d move sure a bride is guest at her received my Masto Berlin and be a graph- aown wedding ters Degree and ic designer. But when I and assure her a year later I won found photography I real- I will produce a scholarship to Columbia Univer- ized graphic design was too beautiful graphtedious and solitary that I ic images of the sity. After a few unpredictable years in New York needed to interact with expressions, the City I became people face to face. shining mothe photojournalments and her most telling interist for my friend’s weddings. I also actions. With meticulous planning, discovered I enjoyed photographing passion, and familiarity with each cliperformances, especially circus acts, ent, my goal is always be two steps and soon became the photographer ahead – to candidly photograph the for Spectacle Magazine and the Big moments that matter, between the Apple Circus. When I met Terry he people who matter. totally understood my vision. When My photos have been published he encouraged me to be part of in Modern Bride, InStyle, Inside the Gruber team he told me “If you Weddings, French Vogue, Spectacle, can shoot a circus you can shoot a New York Magazine, and the Big wedding for Gruber.” I photograph Apple Circus Annual. I was featured with a spirit of collaboration– for in the documentary “Circus” on PBS. me a wedding is an opportunity
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was a Photography major at the navigating to where the photo was School of Visual Arts and upon without making my presence felt. In graduating took my photojournal1999 while continuing to shoot my ism specialization to Eastern Eufine art work and exhibit, I became rope to shoot archaeological digs. I a featured Gruber Photographer ended up shooting photo essays of and filled my weekends up with the people I met in Romania, Serweddings in New York City, the bia, and Hungary. I settled in South Hamptons and abroad. My love of Africa and worked as a shooter at weddings has grown every year a photograsince, and I My mother was an phy wedding I am not avant-garde Greenwich admit studio. Naively a stranger to Village artist and my dad tears during inI expected wedding photography was a rabbi and together we timate moments lived on the roof of the Chel- when peowould offer me the privilege to sea Hotel. The hotel provid- ple are living document the ed more excitement than I through emocultural richness had film for: famous musi- tional moments. of the couple, Photography cians’ spontaneous concerts but sappy formal remembers the in the lobby, art openings, little things, long photos and faux candids ruled the and I had the opportunity after you’ve to photograph all of it. studio’s posing forgotten guide. When I everything. finally returned to NYC in 1995, I Each and every couple is unique came across Terry Gruber’s postcard and my approach is to learn what campaign at my family’s favorite they love about each other, who is restaurant. His black and white most important to them and use that wedding images captured moments road-map so the photos represent that were totally unposed and I the experience and their essence. immediately contacted him. During When they complain“Zev there are my first assignment assisting Terry too many good pictures” I know on a wedding I witnessed first hand I was at my best. Whether I am the spontaneity and orchestration he capturing human interest subjects used to document a wedding. Over in Africa, portraits on a film set, or a the next year I worked alongside celebrity wedding in Manhattan, my him on fifty weddings. I learned how work is emotionally sensitive and to use multiple camera and lens intuitive, and exhibits the their true combinations, the studio’s ballroom personality. lighting technique and practiced
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and growing with the Gruber gang. It y name is JJ and I am a phowas with Gruber that I found my love tographer. With a great big for story telling through the emosmile. Everyone is led down tion-filled day of the wedding. I was a path for various reasons, here is hooked. my story: To tell a story the still image is a I found a camera in a closet powerful tool. Being able to harness when I was young it it put a spell on its powers has been a driving force me. I was completely fascinated by for me in my career. From making its mechanics; its magic to create one powerful ima still image. The still image is a age to sell a prodAnd I then powerful tool and being uct amongst the realized that a still image could able to harness its powers pages of national magazines tell a story. I knew has been a driving force to creating there was nothfor me in my career. the story of a ing else but the special day in a person’s life, I have path of photography for me so I took had the pleasure of capturing clients some steps to allow me to learn, milestones. experience and do photography. My style is something that might The process of immersing be described as “pretty with a touch myself in the art has been a driving of whimsey.” I observe and I capture force. From obtaining a Bachelor of that raw moment. I am drawn to Science Degree in Cinema, Photogexpressing the joy and fun in the raphy and Visual Arts from Ithaca stories I tell. And I am always lookCollege, studying abroad in Italy, and ing forward to finding my next story. working for various local publicaMy images have been published tions before I moved to New York in Martha Stewart Weddings, Brides City after graduation. Over the eight Magazine, The Knot, Bridal Guide, years since graduating and moving BizBash, Rebel Ink, Urban Ink, to New York, I have assisted many Skin&Ink. My commercial specialty is great commercial photographers bridal fashion with clients like Jenny and traveled the globe. It was my Yoo and Bari Jay. fellow Gruber Photographer, Ryan Carville, who introduced me to Terry and his team one year after moving to New York City. We moved up the ranks together, traveling, learning
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n award-winning photograto finally completing their wedding pher, Tilly’s approach is honalbum some months later really est and fresh. With Gruber affords me a close relationship with she has photographed some incredour clients. It’s a very warm and ible events and continues to love personal experience having Gruber the creativity afforded to shooting Photographers shoot your event. weddings “You don’t have the time Before coming to New York, Tilly to plan your shots made a name for capturing a I am happy to be able herself in Auckland, wedding like to be a constant in our New Zealand. Tilly’s you would in client’s lives and deliv- interest in photogthe studio shooting began at a er them such wonderful raphyyoung fashion. You have age and memories captured by to be creative on was nurtured the Gruber team. the spot, reacting throughout to the action and her schooling by creating the most beautiful and dysome fantastic art teachers who saw namic interpretation of it”. Tilly takes her talent and appreciation for the pride in documenting the story of photographic medium. Tilly gradyour event as it unfolds in the most uated top of her class at UNITEC natural and unobtrusive way. Institute of New Zealand. After her Tilly joined Gruber Photogschooling, Tilly became a national raphers as Maike’s assistant and award-winning photographer with quickly proved her talent as an her submission to the AIPA Photogemerging wedding photographer. raphy Awards. In New Zealand, Tilly She wears two hats for the studio worked in a variety of photographic – one as a shooter and the other as fields including fashion, architectheir full time production manager, ture, sport and product photography. “being involved with an event from She always enjoyed the weddings the initial meeting with the couple and mitzvahs she began doing for friends and found that her passion for photography was most ignited shooting events.
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RYANCARVILLE T a moment that can only be truly exan born, Ryan moved to New captured through a photograph… York City in 2007 with two those are the shots that keep me suitcases, a camera and a passearching for more. I like to think my sionate dream. He found a home at approach is a mix between docGruber shortly after arriving in NY umentary and a polished fashion as he worked through the ranks of look. It’s important to me that I am photo assistant, first assistant, seceverywhere the action’s but that my ond shooter, and Photographer. couple feel I am invisible.” His career took root at Texas Ryan’s personal phoState University The sight of the tography is inspired where he got his unknown gets by his love of StiegBFA in digital my attention litz and Avedon. He and photographic protravels the world to do portraiture cesses. His portfolio concentrated and reportage. “The sight of the on still life at first, moved to fashion unknown gets my attention.” He and advertising, and is currently says. Ryan has traveled to India, firmly rooted in wedding and event Nepal, Japan, China, Italy, Mexico, photography. Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica “I am attracted to events beon personal photographic projects. cause of the thrill. When you see
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