We founded Beautiful Together over four years ago. Since then we have been able to start and, gratefully, finish fourteen projects and establish four funds. The projects all focused on supporting children without families. Along the way we have done our best to advocate for these children. For instance, many of these children living in […]
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CES 2019 Welcomes Tamara Lackey and the Power of Personal Projects From Tamara: I am heading back to the GIANT Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2019) in Vegas on January 8th, and I am thrilled to be speaking for Nikon again! AND I will join a panel of incredibly talented photographers, Jen Rozenbaum and Stacy Pearsall, […]
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I love to read. I always have. For me, reading has been an adventure and an education, a bridge to what matters, and a steadily reliable escape from what doesn’t. I spent a lot of time in libraries growing up. As a military family, we moved again and again and again. So my first best […]
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From Start To Finish: The Portrait Shoot Playbook How to Shoot A Photography Session I am so very happy to share that I will soon be releasing my new book, From Start To Finish: The Portrait Shoot Playbook, How To Prepare For, Shoot, And Deliver A Photography Session. It is available for pre-sale now, and we […]
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Spotlight Film on Tamara Lackey, Art and Activism Thank you, Adorama TV, for this beautifully produced Spotlight Film on me, my photography, and my orphan care work with our non-profit Beautiful Together. It was truly such an honor to be profiled. The talented Alana Casner, Director of Creative Content for Adorama TV, produced this piece. She […]
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I have been a professional photographer for fifteen years now. I absolutely love the work I do. And it can be ridiculously frustrating to work in an industry that frequently promotes men over women on multiple fronts, including job opportunities and sometimes just through every day language, tone and nuance. Even when you excel in your field, […]
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What an honor! All this month, Nikon is featuring an image of mine as the cover photo for the main Nikon Facebook Page. You can check it out here. The Story Behind the Image Back in 2010, I began teaching CreativeLive classes. It was the first year they launched courses, and mine was one of the first multi-day live […]
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Best Gallery Opening EVER. Last week I wrote about my concept for a portrait photography gallery for the Kidane Mehret orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. And I spent two full weeks photographing the approximately 65 children who live in this orphanage with the intention of creating this gallery, feeling a strong desire to create it for a few reasons. First, one […]
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creativeLIVE with Tamara Lackey, June 23rd-25th I’m SO excited to be returning to creativeLIVE June 23rd-25th to teach a brand new 3-day live program, Children and Family Photography! Over the last five years, I have taught a number of programs at creativeLIVE, ranging from Photography to Business to Work-Life Balance to Sales to Health & Energy to […]
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Lush Photo Albums: Webinar with Tamara Lackey and Fundy We launched Lush Albums rather recently (to plenty of in-studio cheers!) and have had a number of great conversations with photographers by phone, email, on facebook and in person since then. The good news is that we are hearing wonderful feedback – so grateful for that! The follow-up news is that […]
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Mylio’s “Your Life” Photo Contest Winners! Major congratulations to all who entered the The “Your Life” Photo Contest, hosted by Mylio. It was truly an honor for me to judge the final photo contest winners. All in all, there were over 7,000 photographs entered and, given that the winner received an Advanced Plan to Mylio, normally valued at $250 – as well as […]
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Mom’s Night Out – Taking Better Photographs Nikon’s famed Nikon School is bringing their very cool Mom’s Night Out program to Orlando, Florida. Specifically, it will be Thursday, November 20th, 2014 – if you happen to be in the region and checking your calendar! This unique program is intended for moms on the go who are interested in taking better photographs, as […]
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Photography Contest Winners! A huge congratulations to all who entered the End of 2014 Summer Blues Photography Contest, hosted by Nations Photo Lab and myself. We have named our photography contest winners!! We had some snags with uploading of entries after only a few days into the contest but, luckily, several hundred more images were uploaded with the designated contest […]
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Open Call for Models London **6/24/14: Note, we are all set with some rather wonderful models, and the workshop is completely sold out – thank you! (Our last workshop of the year is in Durham this September, and there are only a few spots left). Our 3-day portrait photographers workshop is coming up very, […]
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Nikon Behind The Scenes I feel very fortunate to have been included in the new Nikon Behind The Scenes web series with colleagues, and friends, Joe McNally, who is also my AdoramaTV co-host, (in addition to being a legendary commercial photographer), and the uber-talented Adventure Photographer Corey Rich. The Nikon Behind the Scenes video series […]
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