The 7 Best Event Photographers in Ann Arbor, MI

Home to the University of Michigan and known for its nightlife and outdoor activities, Ann Arbor, Michigan, is host to a myriad of local events, city-wide and personal. With such a thriving scene, photographers have flocked here to document events from mitzvahs and area concerts to weddings and showers. If you are looking for Ann Arbor event photographers for an upcoming surprise birthday, business opening, proposal, or live show, you will find a great artist on the list below.

1. Airavata Studios

Jamie Lovell and Alex Massey have been Ann Arbor event photographers for a decade and counting. And their extensive experience shines throughout their portfolio. During your event, their professionalism sets your guests at ease and their outgoing personalities encourage people to enjoy having their pictures taken. Their hybrid style is a mix of fun candid shots and posed shots, so they include all attendees and can document your day as it unfolds.

As a bonus for birthday parties and weddings, they offer a photo booth including props and theme ideas for fun shots your guests will treasure. With an ever-evolving portfolio, they keep up to date on editing trends to offer the newest styles to their clients while staying true to their artistic mission.

2. Melanie Reyes

Sometimes there is a photographer whose personal love of the art and of life itself shines through their work and Ann Arbor event photographer Melanie Reyes is one of those photographers. From the first look, you can see the care she takes in crafting each and every frame — composing for maximum impact, deciding what to include and exclude, and her never-ending focus on joy and love. She has photographed over four hundred weddings and events and her creativity just keeps expanding. She tries out modern techniques while providing you with timeless images.

While all of her work is lovely, we particularly recommend her wedding event coverage — with such a bright and happy style you are sure to have the best of your day captured. 

3. Cat Carty Buswell

Cat Carty Buswell is more than an Ann Arbor event photographer, she specializes in weddings and is available for travel around the world so you can have her high-end style no matter your location! Her style is particularly well suited to weddings. In fact, she has a clean and natural editing touch that will stay looking fresh for decades and an emphasis on color amplifies the happy feeling of her work. Working with both natural light and strobes, each image from her camera is a testament to her mastery of the medium.

She offers various packages for her couples, including rehearsal dinner coverage, elopements, and custom hourly packages for intimate wedding ceremonies. If you are celebrating a special day and want photos to treasure, look at Cat’s work. 

4. Benjamin Foote

Serving the greater Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Chicago areas with his expert photography, Benjamin Foote has won a place on The Knot Best of Wedding list for the last two years in a row. His background as a digital artist and years of experience as a digital editor has given him the foundation on which to build a portfolio of creative and technically precise work. He begins by planning his shots, adding a few creative touches, and then editing them to perfection.

When you work with Benjamin, you can expect plenty of inventive angles and personalization. He often uses visually striking elements of the venue to draw the eye and create stand-alone art pieces true to your event. His eye for spontaneity makes him the perfect engagement party or proposal photographer. You can expect him to document your irreplaceable moments in a fun way. 

5. Samii Stoloff

Samii Stoloff is one of our favorite Ann Arbor event photographers for the exuberance she captures during her shoots. Preserving moments of celebration — the culmination of four years of college coursework, mitzvahs, and milestone birthdays — you can feel the delight radiating from her photos.

Her years as a sports and events photographer for the Big Ten Network have refined her shutter sense. She knows the precise moment to click and capture a one-of-a-kind moment, which is a sense essential for photographers documenting momentous occasions. Her editing is light and accurate to the scene, ensuring her style remains timeless so not only will you have lasting mementos, they will still look beautiful for decades into the future. 

6. Knighting Media

Knightwing is a collective of Ann Arbor event photographers that specializes in drone photography, among others. Working as a team, they offer their services to a majority of the state and play to their strengths.

These are the pros you call on to document the day and to frame the images from a marketing perspective. This puts them at a particular advantage for bands, agents, and local venues who want to use their shots as promotional material. For larger-scale events, they even offer aerial coverage by certified drone pilots and videography services for a whole other perspective. 

7. Justin Munter

We love the combination of festive and documentary fine art photography that shows up throughout Justin Munter’s portfolio. He has a thriving fine art print sensibility — streamlined compositions, a bit of post-production polishing, evocative subjects — which shows up continuously in his event work. He shows how the day unfolded and uses experimental techniques to make one-of-a-kind portraits. Justin works closely with his clients to meet their expectations and has plenty of experience in milestone events including mitzvahs and weddings.

For all of his events, he is careful to preserve both the air of tradition and of celebration — using his fine art compositions to lend solemnity to the occasion and his creativity to add flair to the party shots. He’s the perfect choice for people who want statement shots to hang on their walls. 

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