A Year in the Life
A year of real life, photographed and made into a family yearbook.Multiple documentary family photography sessions throughout 2027, followed by a beautiful album filled with the highlights of your year.
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“We did a ‘Year in the Life’ with Chanda and it was one of the best investments our family has made!
She did such a great job capturing us in our everyday life over the year, and we are so grateful to have the “ordinary” captured in a beautiful album we’ll flip through for years to come.”
— Kat, Edgewood
A year of family photography + a really cool family yearbook.
Capture A Fuller Story: Year-Round Family Photography in Atlanta
A whole year, documented and delivered to you in a beautiful album…It’s what I do for my own family.
Documentary photography (candid pictures done beautifully) with a few portraits mixed in to tell your family's story right now. Sometimes at home, and sometimes out and about in your world, I’ll document your family multiple times throughout the year as a fly on the wall. You can choose between 4, 6 or 12 sessions throughout the year, and at the end you will get a gorgeous coffee table style photo album of your family’s year.
A ‘set it and forget it’ project that guarantees your family’s story is told—and that you are in the pictures!
One Family. One Year.Two photographs from each of their six Year in the Life sessions
January
January
March
March
May
May
July
July
September
September
November
November
Choose how you want to document your year
Three ways to make your family yearbook
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12 Sessions (monthly) $525/month
For families who want to document the little things all year long.
Monthly sessions mean we get everything: ordinary Tuesday afternoons, birthdays, holidays, sports, school, summer, and all the changes that happen between them.
1 hour sessions once a month starting in January + 100ish page coffee table style album
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6 Sessions (every other month) $400/month
For families who want the full story without quite as much commitment.
Every other month gives us plenty of time to document different seasons, activities, and stages of your family's life.
2 hour sessions every other month starting in January or February + 100ish page coffee table style album
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4 Sessions (seasonally) $300/month
For families who want a snapshot of each season.
One session each season gives us four very different chapters of your year.
2 hour session in each season + 100ish page coffee table style album
All three options are paid in 12 monthly installments and include all of your edited digital images plus a family yearbook at the end of the year.
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN YOUR YEAR IN THE LIFE
4,6, or 12 documentary family photo sessions. Artful candids of your family + a few portraits.
An online gallery of edited images after each session for you to view, download, print, and share as you'd like. Each session gallery has 75-175 edited images.
A coffee table style album, full of your favorite photos at the end of the year.
Your credit card will be billed at the beginning of each month for 12 months. The first payment is due in December to reserve your spot.
“I just absolutely LOVE what Chanda does every time she visits our family to take our "Year in the Life" photos.
This last visit was just as chaotic as usual in our house but exacerbated by the foot injury Marisol picked up earlier in the day in her soccer game… She beautifully captured the joy we all have using the mini soccer field Anel has meticulously planned and manicured in the backyard, the welcome return of bonfire and s'mores weather, the tears and laughter throughout the preparation for dinner on the back patio, and the stunning colors of the sun setting at our dream home…”
-Marisa, East Lake
FAQs
What do we actually do?You don't need to come up with a list of activities or plan your year around photography. I'll join you in whatever you're already doing.
Maybe that's making pancakes on a Saturday morning, spending an afternoon at the pool, walking to the neighborhood park, celebrating a birthday, having dinner with grandparents, decorating for Christmas, or just hanging out at home. Some sessions might be busy and full of activity, while others might be wonderfully ordinary. That's the point.
Over the course of a year, we'll photograph all of it—the routines, the personalities, the changes, and the little things you probably don't realize you'll want to remember.
How do I choose between the three options?Think about how much of your year you want to capture. Four sessions give you a snapshot of each season, six sessions let us check in throughout the year, and twelve sessions allow us to document all the little changes and everyday moments along the way. There isn't a right choice—it's really about how much of your family's year you want to remember.
What if we have to reschedule a session?Life happens, which is exactly what I'm photographing. If something comes up, we'll find another time that works. And it's completely okay if not everyone is there for every session—sometimes a year looks like one parent and the kids, siblings doing their own thing, or just whoever happens to be home that day. There’s no pressure to create a “photo-worthy” day. The goal is to document your real life as it unfolds throughout the year.
And then there's the yearbook.
At the end of the year, all those individual sessions come together in a beautiful family yearbook—a tangible record of the year you just lived.
I'll help you choose the photographs that tell the story best, from the big moments to the completely ordinary ones. You'll have all of your digital images from each session, but the yearbook is where the pieces come together and become something you can actually hold, look through, and pass around.
A whole year of your family's life, in one book.
