Background on Jeff Franko

Jeff Franko Photography

As a photographer I combine my photojournalism background with commercial photography and traditional education in portrait design to create images that preserve your memories and history. Traditions and family history are created with an edge of photojournalism not often connected with wedding photography. Weddings are a celebration of love, unity and passion. Your passion is reflected in your images and preserved for all to enjoy for generations to come. Jeff Franko Photography brings our family to yours with an assistant to provide an extra eye for details in the controlled portraits. The assistant also provides technical lighting assistance by monitoring a second light source used in candid photographs. This light provides the depth and details of the background while offering a more natural feel to the photographs than a single strobe mounted on the camera.
I am a member of Professional Photographers of America and the Native American Journalists Association. Early in 2002, through a series of testing and portfolio review, I earned Cerfified Professional Photographer (CPP) status from Professional Photographers of America. All of these associations provide continuing educational opportunities that I respond to.
I photographed my first wedding in 1983 and have photographed weddings in Washington State, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. I have photographed Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush, as well as numerous sporting events and shuttle launches during my tenures with United Press International, Agence France-Presse and Associated Press and have photographed annual reports and commercial and public relations events. Yet, none of that means anything to a bride and groom without my honesty, heart and passion for preserving their first moments together.
I grew up in suburban Seattle and have lived in Washington, D.C., a beach community on the Atlantic Ocean in Florida and New York City. These experiences have exposed me to many cultures and work ethic. Jeff Franko Photography will stand on ladders, climb buildings, and travel anywhere to ensure your photographs and portraits are the best they can be.		I have been fortunate to photograph and travel with Presidents and maintain my love of snow and water skiing, the mountains and waterways of our world.

Below are a series of links pertaining to my family. You are invited to browse.

Jennifer Ulman turns 30.

My grandparents, Al & Marguerite Franko, these images may hurt your heart, but are some of my favorite personal images.

These last two are rather large images that require patience when viewing via a dialup connection. La familia Franko reunion and Barker family reunion.