Houston Funeral Photographer

I offer you and your family my sincere condolences at this difficult time. I’m so very sorry for your loss, and I’m here to help if you need me.

I provide sensitive, respectful, and private funeral photography services. My candid, discrete, and compassionate coverage documents your memories. Please think of me as your family historian.

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Should You Hire a Funeral Photographer

If you’re wondering if you should hire a funeral photographer, you’re not alone. There is no right or wrong answer. Your deeply personal decision is difficult during this sorrowful and stressful time.

If you choose me, I’ll honor your beloved’s life through my work. More importantly, as your event photographer I’ll document the memories you wish you could forget–but that you don’t want to forget.

Just as funerals can offer healing, my photographs of immediate and extended family, childhood friends, school friends, work friends, community connections, and neighbors coming together can help heal your heartache through remembrance.

When I’m photographing your unfair reality, I’m going to record memories for you and for the others left behind. And these photos will wait for you. They’ll be there when you want them—even if you’re not ready for them today.

Amid your grief, this visual record is important because it’s difficult to remember or comprehend all that surrounds us during these stressful events. My funeral photography will provide you with tangible memories uncolored by time.

Thank you Rob! You captured the funeral beautifully. – Kathy Tran

Funeral Photography Pricing

My funeral photography pricing starts at $600 for two hours of coverage—even when family portrait photography is requested. My funeral photography deliverables include everything listed on my event photography pricing page.

Funeral Photography Policies & Standards

As your funeral photographer, I’ll create tasteful photographs with a somber reverence and focus on offering comfort and solace for you and the people you love. With my candid approach, I’ll avoid awkward distractions. Dignity and consideration are my bywords.

I understand that this is one of your most difficult days. With that in mind, I’ve developed strict standards for funeral photography to help ensure positive outcomes.

Church or Synagogue Funerals

When I’m photographing a synagogue or church funeral, I focus on the sermon, eulogy, mourners, religious details, and the funeral procession.

Graveside Service Photographer

If you’d like me to photograph the services at the burial or interment site, I’m available to honor your departed through sensitive, respectful photography. If you have special requests, I’m here to listen.

For services performed graveside, in addition to immediate family photography, I’ll also photograph the hearse and family limousines, the procession from hearse to gravesite, pallbearers, priests or leaders of ceremony, family members saying goodbye, mourners paying their respects, lowering of the coffin, laying of stones, and flower arrangements.

I’ll also document the family plot and photograph the cemetery both broadly and in detail. But I’ll avoid intrusive photography of emotional moments by using a telephoto lens, or when I feel that any coverage might distress a mourner, I’ll avoid photographing or even being seen by that person whenever possible.

Military Funeral Photographer

As an honorably discharged combat veteran and son of a retired combat veteran, I photograph military funerals with special regard.

My understanding of military funeral traditions like flag folding, flag presentations, honor guards, rendering honors, buglers sounding taps, and gun salutes runs deep. And that experience is reflected in my work as a military funeral photographer.

My father was a retired Marine, and when I attended his funeral, it was beautiful to see him recognized for his service and witness a public acknowledgment of his military life and efforts. I was too emotionally distraught to photograph the event myself, but I deeply appreciated the funeral director who sent me three smartphone photos from the graveside event. I would have loved to have had more, higher-quality photographs, and that’s why I’m here for you.

Celebration of Life Photographer

Whether you’re holding a celebration of life event in lieu of a funeral or memorial service or you’re planning the event in addition to those remembrances, I’ll document the sorrow, the laughter, and the storytelling celebrating and memorializing the deceased.

Since these events are often customized to your loved one, I’ll carefully photograph the many special details that you show to both mourn and celebrate, whether it’s at a private home, park, church, chapel, banquet hall, or event space.

If you’re including remembrance speeches, slideshows, or videos, I’ll photograph guest reactions and speakers sharing memories expressed with both grief and laughter. I’ll also be there for symbolic acts like tree planting or butterfly releases.

Wake Photographer

Wakes are usually held before a funeral when family and friends gather to support, mourn, and remember. Wake events can be religious or secular and solemn or social, and my photography approach and interactions will be defined by those preferences.

Whether the wake is held at a funeral home or a residence, I’ll photograph visitors paying respects and, when discretion is assured and appropriate, viewing of your loved one if requested.

If you’re holding an Irish wake, my photography will capture the lively event in a way that celebrates friends, family, and your loved one. And if you’re holding a Filipino wake, I can be available over those multiple days or only a few days if you prefer.

Shiva Photographer

Since Shiva is sacred, quiet, and private, it’s not often photographed. But if you would like visual memories of your event, I’m familiar with your traditions. I’ll document your tribute items, photos of your loved one, letters, remembrances, or artwork. I’ll also photograph covered mirrors, torn clothing (Kriah), burning candles, and meals brought by other mourners.

I’ll photograph guests respectfully and candidly both in small groups and collectively—especially if there’s a large crowd to show that your loved one was especially beloved. These photographs are often appreciated by friends and family who weren’t able to attend.

Family Photos

Entire families come together rarely. After funeral services are complete and your family meets to celebrate the life of your beloved, I can provide you and your family with both candid coverage and posed family portrait photography—comprising both small family groupings and your entire family.

These planned family photos can be scheduled at a designated time during the funeral reception. I can work from a list we prepare before I arrive for your coverage, or I can help you spontaneously arrange your family groupings.

Check My Availability

If you have more questions about how I photograph funerals or about my availability—even if you’re still unsure if this choice is right for you—please reach out today.

Houston Funeral Homes

I provide funeral photography coverage at these Houston-area funeral homes. Smaller locations without an online presence were omitted.

Houston Cemeteries

I provide funeral photography and memorial photography coverage at these Houston-area cemeteries.

Brookside Cemetery
13401 Eastex Fwy, Houston, TX 77039
(281) 449-6511

Forest Lawn Cemetery
8601 Almeda Genoa Rd, Houston, TX 77075
(713) 991-2313

Forest Park East Cemetery
21620 Gulf Fwy, Webster, TX 77598
(281) 332-3111

Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery
6900 Lawndale St, Houston, TX 77023
(713) 928-5141

Historic Hollywood Cemetery
3506 N Main St, Houston, TX 77009
(713) 227-5109

Houston National Cemetery
10410 Veterans Memorial Dr, Houston, TX 77038
(281) 447-8686

Eastman Resthaven Cemetery
13102 North Fwy, Houston, TX 77060
(281) 443-0063

San Jacinto Memorial Park
14659 East Fwy, Houston, TX 77015
(832) 239-8858

Santa Teresa & Morales Cemetery
912 Buschong St, Houston, TX 77039
(281) 987-3100

Rosewood Memorial Park
2602 S Houston Ave, Humble, TX 77396
(281) 441-2171

Woodlawn Cemetery
1101 Antoine Dr, Houston, TX 77055
(713) 682-3663

Historic Cemeteries

Adath Emeth Cemetery, Adath Israel Cemetery, Addicks African American Cemetery , Alief Cemetery, Bauer and Rummel Graveyard, Bear Creek Methodist Cemetery, Beeler Family Cemetery, Beltway 8 Cemetery, Beth Israel Cemetery, Beth Israel Memorial Garden, Beth Jacob Cemetery, Beth Yeshurun Cemetery, Borgstedt Cemetery, The Bottoms Cemetery, Bradshaw Cemetery, Brays Bayou Cemetery, Brookside Memorial Park, Carl Groschke Family Cemetery, Cemetery Beautiful, Chapel of Eternal Peace Forrest Park, Chapelwood United Methodist Church Columbarium, Christ Church Cathedral Columbarium, College Memorial Park Cemetery, Couch Family Cemetery, Counth Cemetery, Crooms Cemetery, Cypress Creek Baptist Church, Dawson Lunnon Cemetery, Earthman Resthaven Cemetery, Ehrhardt Cemetery, Eichwurzel Cemetery, Emanu El Memorial Park, Episcopal Church of the Epiphany Columbarium, Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit Columbarium, Episcopal Masonic Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Evergreen Negro Cemetery, Fairbanks Cemetery, First Congregational Church Memorial Garden, First United Methodist Church Columbarium, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Forest Park Cemetery, Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery, Founders Memorial Park, Frostown Cemetery, Fuchs Cemetery, Garvis-Karcher, Gerhart-Pugh Family Cemetery, Glameyer Cemetery, Glendale Cemetery, Glenwood Cemetery, Golden Gate Cemetery, Grace Episcopal Church Columbarium, Greater Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery, Groschke Family Cemetery, Harrington Cemetery, Harris County Cemetery #2, Harrisburg-Jackson Cemetery, Hart-Singleton Cemetery, Hillendahl Family Cemetery, Hillendahl-Eggling Cemetery, Hollywood Cemetery, Holy Cross Cemetery, Houston National Cemetery, Independent Grove Cemetery, ISGH Cemetery, Janisch Cemetery, Koch-Schmidt Cemetery, Kuhlmann Family Cemetery, Magnolia Cemetery, McGee Chapel Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Memorial Drive United Methodist Church Columbarium, Memorial Oaks Cemetery, Methodist Hospital Pathology, Morse-Bragg Cemetery, Mueschke Cemetery, Northwoods Presbyterian Church Columbarium, Oak Park Cemetery, Olivewood Cemetery, Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church Cemetery, Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church Columbarium, Paradise North Cemetery, Perry Cemetery, Pleasant Green-Culbertson Cemetery, Prairie Grove Cemetery, Restlawn Cemetery, Rice University Campus Grounds, Roeder Cemetery, Saint Dominic Villa, Saint Dunstan’s Episcopal Church Columbarium, Saint John German Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Saint John the Divine Episcopal Church Cemetery, Saint Joseph Cemetery, Saint Martin’s Episcopal Church Columbarium, Saint Paul’s United Methodist Church Columbarium, Saint Peters United Church of Christ Cemetery, Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church Columbarium, Saint Timothy Episcopal Church Columbarium, Saint Vincent’s Cemetery, San Jacinto Battlefield State Park Cemetery, San Jacinto Memorial Park, Santa Teresa Cemetery, St. Luke’s United Methodist Memorial Garden, Taylor Family Cemetery, Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Villa de Matel Convent Cemetery, Washington Cemetery, Westcott Cemetery, and Woodlawn Cemetery.

Pet Cemeteries

As a dog lover and fan of all animals, I’m available to memorialize your pet through event photography. Here are the best-known Houston pet cemeteries. I’m also available for photography at private property locations.

Other Areas Served

Although I’m a Houston-based photographer, I also offer funeral photography services in San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas, Texas. Additional travel fees may apply.