Karen Obrist Photography

Karen Obrist Photography is a New York and Paris based wedding, engagement, and portrait photographer, based in Brooklyn and available to travel coast to coast and worldwide. Karen covers weddings, elopements, engagements, family portraits, editorial shoots, and intimate events, and also offers floral design services she developed during the pandemic using skills built over years of photographing weddings. Karen has over 15 years of experience as a photographer, attended photography school in Santa Barbara, and has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Wedding Chicks, Catalyst Wedding Co., Carats and Cake, and Green Wedding Shoes. Based in Brooklyn, Karen is available to travel coast to coast and worldwide, with notable work in New York, Paris, California, Washington state, Jamaica, and Lopez Island. Couples consistently describe Karen as warm, calm, and easy to be around, praising her ability to make subjects feel at ease, her strong sense of composition and color, her skill at capturing candid emotion, and her reliability across varied conditions including rain and extreme heat.