About Us

We're Constance Kennedy and Alan Kennedy — a photographer and a writer, partners in life and in this work, based on Boston's South Shore in Marshfield, Massachusetts.

Photography runs in the family. My father was a deeply talented amateur; my maternal grandfather taught photography at Brooklyn Tech. Every wall of our home held family pictures or artwork, and a tattered, lovingly worn photo album made a perfectly good Christmas gift. I came up assuming this was normal. It took years of working with clients to realize it isn't — that not everyone grew up surrounded by images of the people they love, and that part of what I do is help build that for them.

Alan and I season each other's work like salt and pepper. One of us writes better; the other photographs better. One is left-handed, the other right. One leans introvert, the other extrovert. One came from the East Coast, one from the West. Ask us both for directions and we'll agree on the destination but never on the route. It works. The mutual laughter and natural curiosity mean we cover more ground together than either of us would alone — and our clients are the ones who benefit.

What we care about most is legacy. Not just a beautiful image for today, but a portrait that will hold its place on a wall, in an album, in a family's memory for generations. The digital era made cameras everywhere, but the question we kept hearing was the same: how do we make sure these photographs actually last, and actually tell the story? That's the work — and it takes a seasoned eye, a real conversation, and care for both the person in front of the camera and the people who'll one day inherit the picture.

Alan is a published short-story writer, with poetry, flash fiction, and journalism in his background — and a Pushcart Prize nominee. He spent years as a photographer and editor for a major Massachusetts corporation's in-house paper, is a certified technical writer, and works as a freelance manuscript editor — recently with several clients' memoirs. His editorial hand has shaped much of our work over the years.

I'm a Certified Professional Photographer through the Professional Photographers of America, trained at the Nikon House in New York and the New England Institute for Professional Photography. I'm an active member of Professional Photographers of America, the Professional Photographers Association of Massachusetts (which honored me with a lifetime membership for service and encouragement to the community), and Professional Photographers of New England, and an artist member of the Cape Cod Art Association and the North River Arts Society. I also hold a Master's in Library and Information Science from Simmons College — which turns out to be remarkably useful for archiving and preserving what matters

Many of you have known me for years as Connie Drapeau Kennedy. I still answer to Connie — always will.