Margarita Shabnova

Yours family and personal photographer 

Ever since I was a little girl, I have been in love with photography — waiting for our films to come back from the studio, arranging every print into albums I can still lose hours inside today. What I care about isn’t the hundreds of snapshots we all make in a second, but the few frames truly worth keeping: the emotion, the light, the person you were that day. 

And now I hold this work differently — because I have lived it from the other side of the camera. I have been pregnant, met my own child for the first time, and I am moving through the tender, exhausting, breathtaking early days of motherhood myself. I know how it feels to stand in front of the lens unsure of how you look — and how quickly the round belly, the first blurry days, the tiny hands slip away. 

So when I photograph your pregnancy, your baby, your family, I am not only your photographer — I am someone who understands, from the inside, exactly what you are living. My promise is to make you feel safe and at ease, so you can simply be with the people you love, while I hold on to everything that would otherwise disappear.