About Us

Welcome to the website and blog of Kevin Jacobus Photography.  Our team of wedding photographers and wedding videographers offer services for clients throughout the Boston area, New Hampshire, New England and for destination weddings.  Our group of 6 photographers and a videographer are uniquely positioned to create beautiful photographs in a candid, photojournalistic style combined with a mission to provide the highest quality photographic display products and high definition video while providing unmatched customer service to discerning clientele.  Read on to learn more about our wedding photographers and videographers.

Kevin Jacobus – Owner/Lead Photographer

Kevin has extensive experience in documentary photography having worked for newspapers throughout New England and New York. He graduated from the nationally recognized, top rated S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 1995 and has been photographing everything from professional sports and presidential campaigns to the daily lives of everyday people since.

Kevin has worked at the Syracuse Newspapers, The Patriot Ledger, The Telegraph of Nashua and The Lowell Sun and has taken assignments for the Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, MetLife, and New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc. He counts among his favorite images a photograph he made for Life Magazine of a Good Friday observance that helped illustrate an essay on religion by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt.

He has photographed weddings in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont. He is available for weddings in Boston and throughout New England. Destination weddings can be accommodated as well.

Kevin and his associates are available for maternity, baby, family, executive portraits and lifestyle portraiture on location or in the studio.

Chet joined our team of wedding photographers in 2009.  He is based out of Dracut, MA, and also has worked extensively in ME and NH. He is a graduate of the Hallmark Institute of Photography, and has made photography his career since 2006. He continues to work with veteran photographers and stays proficient using the newest software and techniques.

Chet’s work has been displayed at the GO Nomad Café in South Deerfield, MA, which featured photographs taken while he was stationed in Iraq from 2004-2005. View Chet’s gallery.

Nicolaus Czarnecki – Associate Photographer

Photography is more than a career to Nicolaus, it is his passion.  He has studied the art of photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City, and completed the Professional Photographers Program at the New England School of Photography in Boston, where he majored in photojournalism and minored in documentary photography. While still in school, Nicolaus learned lighting by assisting on editorial shoots for clients such as Time, Forbes, and Money magazines.  He learned the skills of documentary photography by working first hand with legendary photographer Bill Burke, and by holding an internship position at the Metro Boston Newspaper.

Following graduation, Nicolaus was asked to join the Metro Boston Newspaper staff as their photo editor and photographer, where he has worked for the past three years.  He covers the day to day life in and around the Boston area. Nicolaus has traveled the country in order to photograph major events, such as the recent California wildfires.  Many of his stories, like “Katrina, One Year Later” and “Angel on the Border,” have been seen by thousands of readers of Metros worldwide.  Nicolaus’s work was also been displayed in the Boston Globe and London Financial Times, as well as in gallery shows throughout Massachusetts.

Nicolaus has lectured on his work as a photojournalist, and his “Floodlines” work was sold in the renowned Boston Photographic Resource Center auction.  Nicolaus has been using the skills he has acquired throughout his career to document weddings throughout New England, using his camera to capture unforgettable moments. He recently photographed a destination wedding in London, England.  Nicolaus joined our team of wedding photographers in 2009. View Nicolaus’ gallery.

Elena Gormley – Associate Photographer

Elena’s style and approach to photography is based on a compilation of past experiences, namely her work as a publisher, writer and experience designer.  After graduating from college with a creative writing and Spanish major, she started a publishing company comprising three magazines for Vail, Aspen and Summit County.  The publications incorporated creative storytelling through writing and images within a design and sketched an invitation to her readers to experience the destinations as visitors in-the-know.  During that time, Elena photographed sporting, music and charity events as a member of the press while also collaborating with professional photographers.  Her first magazine was endorsed by Former President Gerald Ford who wrote the opening letter welcoming visitors to Vail.  In addition to local newspapers, she was featured in The New York Times as a leader in the tourism industry.

After selling her business, she pursued an MBA in entrepreneurship and marketing at University of Texas at Austin.  During the two-year program, Elena worked on her own documentary called A Day in the Life of an MBA while also working as an assistant wedding photographer.

Post graduation, she and her husband relocated to Minneapolis where she joined a boutique consulting firm as their experience designer.  Within that role, Elena worked with both small, private and large, Fortune 500 companies to develop designs that touched all aspects of a customer’s experience. These designs were based on an understanding of the overall emotional impact an experience has on an individual.  Through experience design and publishing, she has been trained to see, feel and document aspects of an experience through the eyes of another person.

Now, as a mother, former publisher and experience designer, Elena has developed a photographic style that seeks to reveal emotion, authenticity and the beauty of the moment within her images. Elena currently lives on the south shore of Massachusetts with her husband, dog (first child) and two girls.  Elena joined our team of wedding photographers in 2009.  View Elena’s gallery.

Beth Donnell- Associate Photographer

Beth believes in capturing the little moments, the delicate details, and the small gestures.  She is always looking for the beautiful backgrounds, sweet light, and just the right glance or smile to make a photograph that will last a lifetime.  Beth studied journalism at UMASS Amherst where she traveled to Sicily for travel photography.  It was the beautiful landscapes and nature that inspired her to first take photos, and it has always remained an important element in her work since.

After working a corporate job for a few years, Beth realized she could not deny her passion for photography, nor write it off as simply a hobby.  Beth expanded her photography skills by studying at the Center of Digital Imaging Arts (CDIA) at Boston University where she will receive her Professional Certificate of Photography.  From her work at CDIA, Beth has developed a greater body of work by expanding into engagement and portrait sessions and photographing weddings and events.  She is truly happy when she can look through the lens and capture the mood of the moment that will be remembered and cherished forever.  Beth has shot wedding and engagement sessions in Maine and Massachusetts and is available for work throughout New England.  View Beth’s gallery.

Don Himsel -Associate Photographer

Don Himsel is a veteran photojournalist based in southern New Hampshire.  He’s the photo editor and a multimedia reporter for The (Nashua) Telegraph and nashuatelegraph.com.  He’s been on staff there since 1989 and has worked at other New England newspapers, primarily as a photojournalist.

Don has been a member of the National Press Photographers Association since 1986.  He’s been on the board of directors of the New Hampshire Press Association, has served on the NH Press Photographers Association and the state’s Judiciary and the Media group.  He was a contract photographer for the America 24-7 documentary project and has photographed for Barron’s Publishing.  He has received state and regional photojournalism awards including one of the first ever New England Newspaper Association Publick Occurances awards for documentary photojournalism.

Don has photographed weddings locally and a destination wedding on Nantucket island and has a growing body of portraiture work throughout the area.  Don joined our team of wedding photographers in 2010.  He and Kevin worked together for over 6 years at The (Nashua) Telegraph.

Dan Kennedy – Associate Videographer

Dan has a background in cinematography and documentary-style videography. After finishing at New York University with a degree in Film/Television, he began to shoot and edit for various corporations, small businesses and independent film/video production companies. His clients include Boston University Medical Center, TheYellowPages.com, Hanson and 3cg Records, and various political campaigns in the state of New Hampshire. His work as a cameraman has aired on MTV, Comcast OnDemand and the Word Network. He currently resides in Amherst, NH.  View samples of Dan’s video.