Durham Family Photographer

Carolyn Scott is a Durham family photographer. She specializes in candid and documentary at-home family photography in the Triangle area (Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Cary, etc). Carolyn’s work has been published in several popular books and magazines, including Apartment Therapy, BuzzFeed, and Fangoria. Locally, she’s been voted Best Photographer in Durham Magazine’s Best Of Durham and INDY Week’s Best of the Triangle. She lives in South Durham with her husband Geoff and three cats.

We photographed Margaret and Bryan’s wedding back in 2018 (!) when we were lucky enough to meet and work with Barbara and Gordon, Bryan’s parents. Since then, Margaret and Bryan have moved away and welcomed a small adorable child into the world. Bryan’s brother Gray and his wife Christie now also have two children, and everyone was going to be gathering together at Barbara and Gordon’s house for a few days while they were attending a wedding, including Skippy, Barbara’s sister-in-law. Wonderfully, Barbara reached out to see if I could come photograph the family all together and update their family portraits as well as take some candids of everyone at the house. A basketball injury the day before the shoot left Gray on crutches but thankfully there are plenty of beautiful places to sit around their property and we soldiered on! And did we make a baby smile using an extremely haunted-looking doll? We absolutely did. It was so lovely to reconnect with their entire family and meet the two newest members!

Somehow I made it 17 years as a photographer and have never had a portrait shoot at the NC State Fair in Raleigh… until now! Absolutely thrilled to photograph Amanda and Joe and their crew again. I’ve worked with them many times and their children never cease to amaze me. They’re polite, helpful, funny, and consistently super nice to me and try to listen so hard, even when tired or hungry. Just genuinely good kids. We did this shoot early in the morning before the fair got really busy and enjoyed playing games, eating food, exploring fun houses, and getting lost around the circus that is the state fair. It was a beautiful morning and we had a lot of fun. It’s always a pleasure catching up with this group of amazing people!