Mea Barath /

Visual Storyteller

Awarded by Canon

Family Photojournalist

Family Award / Top 10 Family Photographer in the world

At least 50 high-resolution candid pictures

NZ$ 350

NZ$ 200

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Family photography

Candid Wednesdays

1 hour photo shoot at your place with Mea, a Christchurch based, Canon award-winning Storytelling photographer

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I believe living in a family is a gift. My mission is to show how wonderful your family is. Sometimes it's messy and loud, but it's a real miracle, and it's yours! You are a gift for each other and you have to celebrate this! With photographs, too!

Mea Barath

Canon Award-winning visual storyteller
How this photosession is going to look like?

After my arrival we get to know each other a bit, we talk, and I also make friends with the children. Then I start taking pictures. I have never used a flash and I have never said you how to pose. There are no instructions, your life goes on it’s natural way. I try a little to be there as if I weren’t even there. Of course, we also talk and play on the go, I have fun with the kids. You can bake a cake, or go for a walk if you want to. You can do everything in the way that you are usually used to. Just feel good, and enjoy yourself as usual.

I see what documentary is, but can we ask for family photos, where we are smiling to the camera all together?

Of course, all-together family photos also can be taken. These are worth planning for the end when everyone is used to the situation and you are calm and easygoing enough. This will make these images much more honest and full of life.

How we going to get the photos?

Typically, I give you the pictures one and a half to two weeks after the photo shoot, but you’ll already get some photos in the days after we meet, just for a taste. They are delivered online, via a download link, in high resolution, in professional quality. I also make a small version with a logo that you can use online, email, or share.

Nice words about me

Claudia

Mea’s pictures are how I see ourselves when no one can see us—the moments I collect in my heart. Of course, you could say this is documentary family photography, but Mea is more than that. She has an eye for family life; she knows what is extraordinary in the ordinary, what is the wonder of being together.

When I showed the pictures to others, many said how good they were, that they were not boring and fun to look at. Well, that’s how exciting, real and human all the pictures of Mea we got. At the photo shoot, it was as if she wasn’t there; she didn’t shape the family dynamics or the events, yet she was everywhere she needed to be, and in a few hours, she saw in us who we really were.

Agnes 

I wanted photos in our home with our children that would faithfully reflect the atmosphere of those years with small children. It was a perfect choice to invite Mea to come and take photos with us. She immediately connected with us with her fun, open personality, and we had an enjoyable and relaxed morning together. Thank you for the experience, Mea! Nothing proves that we were on the same page as the wonderful pictures we got from you. You photographed precisely what I wanted and how I wanted it!

Imola

Before Mea, we only did staged photo shoots. While that has its own vibe and the pictures are usually beautiful, it’s torture with two little ones!
During a staged photo shoot, we tend to go from begging to pleading to blackmailing to threatening… For sure, kids – and parents – get tired quickly during these sessions.
With Mea, it was a different photo session, we had nothing to do but be together and play while she quietly hid in the background and took fabulous pictures. It was a calm, happy afternoon, without tantrums or whining. We got real, vivid photos, a slice of real everyday life that we can look back on years later.
Mea is kind, reliable and, last but not least, professional. I heartily recommend her to everyone!

Áron Hajósi

High quality art, reliable work, valuable human connection from the same source: this is Mea.

Tamás Márkos

Fun and playful, sensitive photography, unique way of seeing.

Virag Sarosdi

I’ve always known, that my family doesn’t fit to a photostudio. We don’t feel comfortable with poses. Mea photograhs exactly what I want to remember, and exactly the way I want to preserve those moments.

Frank Kirchner

I like the natural atmosphere in the pictures, not artificial! Pure life. A hidden world, picture full of stories, thoughts. Mea fills the frame with valuable content, with real impressions of life.

Dan Rubin

The story and images are captivating, and the images themselves feel both carefully curated and edited — the set would be at home in a major print publication. (about Lőrincz Szamaras, Wild and free series)

Candid Wednesdays 

  • 1 hour photo shoot at your place 
  • At least 50 high-resolution candid pictures 
  • Images without poses
  • Photos delivered in 48 hours

Mea Barath

Canon Award-winning visual storyteller

Discount

NZ$ 350

NZ$ 200

Book now