Specialties
I'm Yury - an event and family photographer in Los Angeles and Orange County.
Birthdays, baptisms, baby showers, quinceaneras, anniversaries, small corporate gatherings. I shoot events the way they actually happen - no lining people up against a wall, no interrupting the toast. I get close, I stay out of the way, and you get the room the way it felt.
Events are $400/hour, and the rate drops to $350/hour past four hours. You get 50-70 edited photos per hour in a private gallery. Travel across LA and OC is included, and there are no surprise add-ons.
I also shoot families, newborns, first birthdays and maternity - $650 for an hour, 30 edited photos, and 3 Polaroid prints in your hands the same day.
Two things nobody else here offers: I reply within the hour, and if you're not comfortable in the first fifteen minutes, I refund your retainer in full and we stop. No questions.
Before this I spent years in editorial and film work - ten magazine publications in one year. That's where I learned to watch for what is real instead of directing every pose.
History
Established in 2019.
I started out in Belarus and moved to Los Angeles knowing almost nobody here. I went straight into editorial and film work - ten magazine publications in one year - which is where I learned to photograph people I had only just met. Families found me almost by accident. I shot one, then their friends, and it turned out that was the work I liked most. Then I had a son and took nine months off to be home with him full time. I came back understanding families from the inside: the noise, the mess, the two minutes before someone melts down. Seven years and more than a hundred families later, that is what I do now - families, newborns, first birthdays and events across Los Angeles and Orange County.
Meet the Business Owner: Yury S.
I'm a photographer and a dad. I shoot events, families, newborns and first birthdays across Los Angeles and Orange County. Before this I worked in editorial and film, which is why I watch for what is already happening instead of directing every pose. I answer every message myself, usually within the hour, and I would rather talk you into the right session than the expensive one.