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Self-portrait | West Village | 4.28.24
#photography #photographersofinstagram #portraits #selfportrait #brooklynartists #beauty #NYcreatives #location #setlife #focus #westvillage #washingtonmews #NYC
29 Apr 2024
Follow your dreams…the view is different.
Thank you @dcalderon.photo for these beautiful photos 🙏🏽
#photographer #sony #setlife #BTS #NYC
19 Jan 2026
“Meg, how TF are you really going to follow your dreams—single, post-pandemic NYC with a 2 year old?” This was a regular question I’d ask myself in the very beginning. I couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I genuinely felt like my experience was one-of-a-kind—isolating, even.
Although I didn’t have a lot of the tools and wisdom I have now…I had people around who played a big part in nurturing my growth. And as I grew, I started to meet more people further along in their careers who overcame the odds as parents who mastered ‘the juggle’. They showed me ‘how’. Around the same time, my Mom—who once didn’t understand my creative dreams—eventually became the kind of support a much younger me always yearned for.
There’s no doubt Mama Schmidt loves her kids deeply. But a passionate, weird, sensitive artist child? That’s a whole different kind of patience and understanding. (I get it—this shit is tough.)
Fast forward to now, we’ve come a long way- my Mom and I...
How? The shift happened when I made peace with every decision I ever made. I fully embraced who I am, and who I’m becoming. I loved myself like a mother would a child.
Having my mom, my brother and my son in the picture like never before means something I can’t express through words. The best I can do is show you through photograph how it feels to be Maxine’s daughter, Dre’s sister, and Max’s Mom in our first family portrait since my brother and I were kids.
Mother’s Day 2025
Self-Portrait
📸 @meg_schmidt
20 May 2025
The cool kid I get to photograph, and raise, turned 7 this month 💫
I shot this series based on an idea he presented to me about a year ago. Watching his creativity grow is easily one of my favorite things about life. He’s coming up with his own ideas, adamant about dressing himself, flipping through magazines for inspo, and ends playground debates with “word to my Mom” (yeah, that’s me!)
Shades worn (from top to bottom):
🕶️ First 3 - Random sunglasses I bought one day I was bored in Park Slope.
🕶️ 4th - Gianni Versace; these were my very first pair of designer shades. My stepdad gave them to me when I was 4ish years old.
🕶️ 5th - Balenciaga’s ‘Midnight Mask’; my boy mighttt need at least 10 more years on him before he can keep these.
📸 @Meg_Schmidt
#studiophotography #nycphotographers #productphotography #commercialphotographers #nyc
29 Oct 2026
10 years ago, I bought my first camera.
I was living in my first ever apartment and I chose to buy a camera, while still sleeping on an air mattress. Furniture had to wait.
About a year later, I was hired for my first professional gig. And for nearly the next decade, I kept shooting on and off, wondering if that “one day” would ever arrive…when I could leave my day job and maybe get ‘flewed out’ somewhere to shoot with a big crews like what I saw on Making The Video or film sets in the city. Maybe take pictures of artists who inspired me through music or on TV growing up. Or give my own child a head start on a creative career if that’s the path they chose.
It was scary. Challenging. Rewarding. And, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful experiences I could have ever given myself.
In a few days, I’ll celebrate one year of being a full-time photographer.
How do I feel about it?
The way I feel every day when I wake up: Excited. Optimistic. Prepared. And sincerely thankful for every part of the journey that brought me to this point and every person who has played a role in my story.
Choosing to act on the gifts God gave me has been a huge undertaking, and it continues to be. Making sacrifices, making tough decisions, and figuring out how to hold life and work at the same time is sooo hard at times.
I hope I never make it look easy, because I want to be honest about the fact that it simply is not.
But I realize that I’m with the shits, though. There has always been a part of me that genuinely enjoys the challenge. I’ve always had a little fight in me that makes me want to see just how far I can take something once I decide I’m willing to try.
And one year into doing this full-time, I’m finally getting to enjoy some of the fruits of all those years of practicing, showing up and wondering if this would even happen.
Deeply grateful to have built a life so beautiful that I can’t help but capture it.
03 Sep 2026
Transform adversity into fortune.
#photographerslife #artistsofinstagram #creatives #entrepreneurs #nyc
04 Aug 2026
‘It Never Entered My Mind’
@wyapraise | Brooklyn | 7.22.26
📸 @meg_schmidt
Lighting: @artphotofilms
#commercialphotography #studiophotography #fashionphotography #NYphotographer #NYC
11 Aug 2026
Summer ‘26…I could go for 1 more round 🥂🍾
16 Sep 2026
@eyallatuipulotu | London, UK | 4.28.2026
📸 @Meg_Schmidt
#commericialphotography #alaia #nyphotographer #elitemodels #london
13 Jul 2026
On location in London 🇬🇧🎥📸
10 Sep 2026
Radiate, like the sun.
Photographer: @meg_schmidt
Creative Direction: @lindsayadler_photo
Model: @hukaimin1011
Hair: @linhhair
Makeup: @gkarpinmua, @ann.benjamas
Styling: @thecannonmediagroup
#Profoto #Canon #Adorama #iconsoffashion #photography #photographersofinstagram #fashion #brooklynartists #NYcreatives #setlife #focus #JerseyCity #NYC
08 Aug 2024
Absolutely love this work by @meg_schmidt w/ Max 📸 Ft. Pieces by @johnnynelsonjewelry 🔥 #Dopeblackart
Words from Photographer:
“I had to shoot some stuff for @johnnynelsonjewelry one day last year, and Grandma couldn't hold down Max that afternoon, so I took him with me…
Once he saw the rings it was over. He put them on, jumped in front of my camera and started coming up with all kinds of ideas like this!” - @meg_schmidt
#johnnynelsonjewelry #fashion #jewelry #kidsfashion
13 Oct 2026
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