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.

December 5, 2024

Hannah + David // Raleigh Family Photography

I love this little crew! I’ve known Hannah and David for a long time and they’re some of the nicest people, and Hannah also sends me really quality bat content on Instagram. In addition, their son is obsessed with cats and therefore my best friend. He now also likes dinosaurs and Ghostbusters (!!) and is just an overall delight of a dude. We spent some time taking photos in a beautiful Raleigh park, hiking down to the water to walk on some logs and then circling back to the playground. I, for one, have never seen a child use a slide like this, and am convinced his bones are made of rubber. He would climb up, slide down, literally shoot out and land hard in a type of stuntman roll, and then shoot straight back up and do the whole thing again. He keeps everyone laughing and active and amused, all the while talking about cats. The best!

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December 3, 2024

Aleigh + Joe // Durham Family Photography

Aleigh and Joe are the bee’s knees and now they have this little ham of an old man son who already enjoys sitting on a good stoop and listening to his radio like it’s 1935. He would ask for his little radio (a Yoto player), then sit on the edge of his Nugget cushion with his hands folded, deep in thought and contemplation. Then he’d yell for someone to play Do You Know the Muffin Man again the second it ended. All we need is a cigar and maybe a newsboy hat. I imagine that he’s probably a reincarnated New Yorker. When he’s not doing that, he’s laughing wildly while playing peek-a-boo, putting 500 Cheez-Its into his mouth at once, and deliberately pouring out bottles of bubble solution onto the sidewalk. Half toddler, half 85 year old man. It was so good to photograph these guys in their beautiful home.

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November 26, 2024

Crystal + Jason // Durham Family Photographer

IT’S CHICKEN TIME. I was very excited to spend some quality time with this long-time CSP family and their newfound chickens! The chickens, it turns out, were very excited to have their photos taken and were not shy chickens at all. They had a great time pecking around and posing for photos. Zero camera-shyness. And I had a great time, as usual, bouncing around with the humans as well, hanging out in tents and with chickens and on climbing equipment (and under it). Earlier this year, the eldest child participated in the Feather Classic where you show off your chicken to be judged and it was quite amazing. I’m hoping that the family skyrockets to Feather Classic fame, like a televised version of the National Dog Show, but for chickens. The kids are pros at handling chickens and caring for chickens, as well as collecting eggs (also pros at giving the chickens great names such as Puppy and Banana). And while not chickens, you might even recognize a few familiar paper-mache heads around the shoot… ;)

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