For more than two decades, Charlotte Jenks Lewis has photographed the kind of East Coast weddings where every detail is considered, the guest list spans generations, and the setting already has a story.
A Sense of Place
City clubs with portraits on the wall. Museum courtyards and curated libraries. Tents on family lawns. The ferries, islands, and coastlines that evoke tradition. Her work sits comfortably in these worlds because she’s lived in them for years - reading light, dress codes, and dynamics with the same ease that she handles her cameras.
City clubs with portraits on the wall. Museum courtyards and curated libraries. Tents on family lawns. The ferries, islands, and coastlines that evoke tradition. Her work sits comfortably in these worlds because she’s lived in them for years - reading light, dress codes, and dynamics with the same ease that she handles her cameras.
Before weddings, Charlotte worked as a Manhattan still-life photographer, creating campaigns for editorial spreads, lifestyle brands, and discerning clients that expected absolute precision. A real-world education in light, color, and composition. In making objects and spaces look exactly as they should.
Film is her first choice, supported seamlessly by digital, so the final edit feels cohesive and enduring, never trendy. She has been recognized by Harper’s Bazaar, Martha Stewart Weddings, and editors who trade in high standards. The résumé is there for those who look for it, but it’s never the point of your day.
An Editorial Foundation
Charlotte Jenks Lewis
In Practice
The resulting images are film-led, edited with restraint, and shaped by place, people, and atmosphere. They are designed to feel entirely like the couple, to sit easily alongside family photographs from other decades, and to hold up to the kind of scrutiny her clients are used to applying everywhere else in their lives.
On a wedding weekend, Charlotte is warm, clear, and composed. Her direction is confident but never theatrical - a sleeve adjusted, a step toward better light, a moment held for just one more frame. She learns names. She understands family hierarchies and old friends. And she knows the venues by their unique light as much as their logos, ever able to anticipate what each space needs.
Listed as a Top Photographer by:
Harper's BAZAAR, The Wed, Martha Steward Weddings
-- Samantha
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"She is unbelievably talented, using both film & digital mediums to capture the most amazing & authentic moments. She is truly the best in the industry."