This 2013 photo provided by I Heart New York shows Kristain and Anzalee Rhodes at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York. Anzalee was eight months pregnant in the picture. The couple are hiring photographers from I Heart New York to document their experiences as young parents. Hiring professional photographers to capture everyday life and not just important events like weddings has become a lifestyles trend.When Anzalee and Kristain Rhodes look back at their daughter’s first year of life, they won’t be examining blurry, red-eyed camera phone photos. They’ll have crisp, finely detailed professional shots of a baby growing up before their eyes.
Each month, a team of professional photographers shoots them as they go about their daily lives at home and around New York City.
“As a baby, she changes every month. There’s something new. Her hair changes, everything changes within a month and we wanted to be able to capture all those things,” said Anzalee Rhodes, a 35-year-old statistician who lives on Long Island, New York
The Rhodes are part of a trend of folks hiring professional photographers to document not just big events like weddings and bar mitzvahs, but everyday activities. Sometimes they want a milestone recorded — a child’s birthday party or family get-together. But often they’re hiring pros to photograph things they might otherwise have shot with their own cellphones or point-and-shoot cameras: a weekend outing, a vacation, or a portrait of a beloved pet.
Those photos are then shared, just like their own cell pictures would be, on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.