Amy Murgatroyd Photos + Films

Name: Amy Murgatroyd Photos + Films
Address: Boston, MA, 02108, US
Telephone: +18572641920
Price range: $$$

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Amy Murgatroyd Photos + Films

Boston-area lifestyle family/newborn photographer and filmmaker. Hi and a warm thanks for stopping by! Your memories deserve sound and movement!

I’m Amy – a physical therapist by training, a photographer turned videographer by surprise…a wife to a patient, enduring man…and a mama by grace to two crowning gifts who fill my life with wonder. I am passionate about creating story-driven, nostalgic, love-soaked newborn/family photos and films. I take a little different approach to family photography....

First, I want every client to experience

a film. A 1 to 2 minute mini film is included in every one of my photo packages. Second, I see my most important job as creating a context for you to press into the people you love… To hit pause, hold tight, look with your heart and linger there.

01/28/2026

{Watch the full film in Stories today!}

There is something so sacred for me about including grandparents in a family session. Photographs preserve the way they look, but video captures everything else we’ll ache for one day—the cadence of their voices, the way they laugh, the familiar gestures and mannerisms that feel like home.

When I think of my own long-deceased grandmothers, my memories are sensory and tender. One smelled of lavender always, her life rooted in the fields of her lavender farm in Oregon. The other padded through her California kitchen in soft housecoats, stirring mac and cheese and baking my favorite cookies while the Dodgers played in the background. I would give anything to hear their voices again.

Extended family sessions both fill and humble me. There are so many people, so many moving pieces, so many degrees of freedom for me to direct, all while simultaneously capturing still photographs and unfolding moments on film. It’s chaotic and beautiful, and I treasure it even as it stretches me.

This particular session made me long to be with my grandparents again. My favorite moment wasn’t planned: each grandfather spontaneously lifted a grandson onto his shoulders and smiled proudly. I held my breath behind the camera, wishing the moment would never end—grateful that, thanks to video, it never would.

01/08/2026

2026 has had a tender start for us. Two parents with recent cancer diagnoses and a beloved pet bunny of 11 years who had to be put down this week. As I look ahead, around me, and at the state of this nation/world, there’s a temptation to give in to dread and rising anxiety. So many of the things I take security in aren’t forever.

There was a book we used to read to our girls and would quote on hikes…𝘞𝘦’𝘳𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘵. Maybe you know the song? As a family tromps through the woods tracking an imaginary bear, they encounter obstacles like a river and a mud puddle. “We can’t go over it, we can’t go under it—we gotta go through it!” The exclamation marks in the narrative hint at the sense of curiosity and adventure they maintain even as their bear hunt meets resistance.

I’ve been tracking a bear named “Control” my whole life. My Type A, risk-averse nature craves it. Control is imaginary. As I face rapid life changes ahead, turn a half-century in March, and prepare to launch my firstborn this fall, Control is eluding me more and more.

I make a practice of choosing a word for the year. Last year was “contentment”—I chose less striving and more presence. My word for 2026 is “TRUST.” Trust is only as fortifying as the thing we place our trust in. Trusting in what I can control is a losing game. I control SO little. Instead, I’m re-choosing each day to place my trust in Someone I can’t control and who calls the story He has written me “good.” Good doesn’t mean easy—the tender, most beautifully shaping events of my life weren’t so easy.

Whatever 2026 throws at me, I’m just glad to be here.

Here to feel the feelings.

Because life is achingly beautiful even when it’s hard, and I can’t go under it, I can’t go over it—I gotta go through it!!!! 😉

12/11/2025

Every toddler shows up to a session with a whole world of feelings—and I welcome every single one. Over the years, I’ve trained my heart to arrive at a session with no expectations at all. This means I’m rarely disappointed! Toddlers are wonderfully unpredictable, and instead of resisting that, I’ve learned to embrace the life stage they’re in. Their moods, their whims, their fierce independence…it’s a rite of passage (which, by the way, repeats when they hit puberty…you’re welcome 😉).

Maybe it’s because I’m a parent of teenagers (who have strengthened my patience), or because I’m not taking your toddler home (ha!), but your toddler’s tantrums don’t faze me. They’re kinda cute and weirdly nostalgic for me. I remember the days when my toddlers clung crying to my legs one second and dissolved into giggles the next. Their ups and downs were exhausting then, and I couldn’t see past them to the experimentation that was at hand. In the swirl of emotion that attends some sessions with toddlers, it becomes my mission to capture what parents are too frazzled to see…a child who adores you, who feels safest in your arms, and who can be gently guided back to joy with patience, play, and a little photographer magic.

So if your toddler brings their whole heart—pouts included—to our session, don’t worry. You bring 𝘺𝘰𝘶, let them be 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, and I’ll take care of the rest. That’s my job! It’s your toddler’s job to act their age, and I embrace them for who they are today!

11/20/2025

{Watch the full film in Stories today!}

My Chiaroscuro work, turning fifty this winter, preparing to launch my oldest from the nest, and walking alongside aging parents, have tenderized my heart in ways I never expected. This season is shaping how I see this one precious life we’re given—also how I see the families I’m privileged to photograph and film.

Newborns fill me with wonder…so much potential, so many dreams, all that 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 crammed into the tiniest bodies. Through my lens, I’m reminded that every person—from babies just starting out, to grandparents with decades behind them—is a living library of stories.

Capturing these milestones feels sacred. It’s bearing witness to new chapters being written, families growing, time moving in ways both tender and astonishing. My work is my play, but it’s also my purpose. It feels like a calling on my life to receive a family’s moments in raw form, then return them as art to be cherished for always.

11/13/2025

{Full film in Stories today!}

Throwback to summer fun with this sweet family who got to experience their very first family film. The kids’ laughter, the birthday girl’s dancing eyes, the smell of dad’s amazing chicken marinade, and mom’s radiant smile still live in my heart and memory.

When I finally get around to posting a film, it’s been months since I watched it. The beauty of video is that it snaps the viewer right back to a moment in time with all the fullness a memory deserves. I’m not just looking at a snapshot and relying on my memory to fill in the details; I’m watching the moment develop and play out.

It’s a true time machine.

The experience of watching a family film is so immersive that other memories are quick to follow…even sensory ones. When you watch it a second and third time, you begin to see things you missed. Years later, it’s doubled in value because you haven’t heard your kids talk like that…move like that…giggle quite like that…in so long.

THIS is why all my packages include video. It’s what I can uniquely offer your family, and I care about your moments too much to tell only half the tale.

11/06/2025

{Visit Stories today for more background and info!}

There have been two times since starting this brave little business that I’ve launched something, then held my breath.

Four years ago, family films were incorporated into every one of my packages. I was certain I was scuttling a healthy photography business. 222 films later, it seems God had other plans for it.

Today, I launch a sub-brand that has been tugging at my heart for years. It’s dedicated to courageous families with untold stories—the ones who’ve lived through fire, fought invisible battles, and whose stories deserve to be celebrated too.

There’s nothing predictable about this new sub-brand:

- I don’t know how these clients will hear about me.
- I don’t know if they will want what I offer.
- I don’t know how many will be able to pay (‘cause they don’t have to).
- I don’t know how much my empathetic heart can bear.

It doesn’t matter. I feel called to this work, and all my heart is on the table. It feels like my faith, my story, my fifteen years as a PT—as well as the families who inspired this brand—have all led me to today.

And so I give you 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒐 𝑷𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒔 + 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒔 (kee-aa-ruh-skyour-row, from Italian chiaro, “light,” and scuro, “dark”—a technique employed by visual artists to convey light piercing the darkness).

Because there is light above the clouds and beauty in the shadows.

(A special thanks to the ridiculously talented for reading my mind once again at every turn of the branding process. She turned a dream into reality, gently coaxing me to leap.)

10/16/2025

{Full film in Stories today!}

There’s something magical about sitting down to edit a film—never quite knowing how it will come together, but trusting the story to guide me. ✨ I lose myself in these moments, feeling the laughter, the love, the tiny gestures that say everything. This family’s film felt especially special—I tucked in some old footage as a little surprise…gentle echoes of a time gone by but preserved. 💛

As I edit, I can’t help but imagine these children one day, all grown up, watching their day unfold—remembering the love that was their foundation.

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+18572641920

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http://www.amymurgatroyd.com/

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