Nashville Birth Photographer + Family Films Videography
Photography and video that captures the raw emotions, beauty in real life, and ordinary precious moments.
Hi, I’m Jennie Pyfferoen, a Nashville family photographer and videographer.
(I bet you’re wondering how to say my last name! Say it like PIE-FUR-OWN.)
I live on 5.5 acres just thirty minutes outside Nashville with my two teenage boys (ages 16 & 13), three dogs, and my wonderful husband, where the sun rises in the front and sets in the back. When I’m not filming or photographing, I’m spending time at the Crossfit gym or with my family.
Being raised by a single mom forever shaped me. She made sure we never went to bed angry and always said ‘I love you.’ With sisters that were 11 and 17 years older than me and a brother who died when I was just a baby, I saw how short life is and how we’re never promised tomorrow.
From a young age, I could see how time slips away, whether we want it to or not. Maybe I’m an old soul, but I’ve never gotten over that feeling. Just three weeks after my wedding, my mother passed away suddenly. It was the last day I saw her, and I don’t have any audio of her voice or any video of that day. It’s something I’ve never forgotten.
I would give anything — and I do mean ANYTHING — to have a video of her. The sound of her laugh. The way her face crinkled when she was happy. I would pay $50K right now to have just two minutes of her on film. Two minutes of her voice telling me she loves me. Two minutes of her just being her. I don’t have it. I never will.
Growing up, I always had a 110 disposable camera in my hands, trying to capture the fleeting moments. It wasn’t until much later that I picked up my camera once again as a mom of two boys. After several years working as a posing newborn photographer, I discovered family films.
When I hired a videographer to do a session with my family in 2017, it was completely different than anything I’d ever experienced. It was totally unposed. My family was able to relax and be completely themselves.
I expected to love the family film, but I got the photos back first. I’ve always hired amazing photographers for my family, but this was real. It was the first time I had ever cried over my family photos.
One moment brought me to tears: my son, laying on a bench and reaching behind his head to put a sock on. Until that point, I would have had him sit down to put on his sock, erasing his entire personality to take a ‘proper’ photo.
I realized then that the posed photos I had specialized in for the last six years wasn’t what I wanted to do anymore. For the past nine years, I have dedicated myself to documentary family photography and videography. I’ve captured memories for hundreds of families, from births to newborn babies and ordinary family moments.
Giving families video and audio alongside photos of their real life is my calling and passion. When I film your family, I want you to think about your children watching this video and looking through the photos thirty years from now.
What do you want them to remember? That’s the story most worth telling.
Besides being a family, maternity, and birth photographer for the past 16 years (since my own children were babies!), I’m also…
An Accredited Member of the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers
Soulful Storytellers Advanced Artisan Documentary Filmmaker
Voted Birth Photographer of the Year by International Association of Professional Birth Photographers
A Filming Life Pro Certified Member (Filming Life Academy)
Highly praised by my clients with 96 Google Reviews and an average rating of 5 stars
With an Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education and a BS in Developmental Psychology, I understand how parents are feeling both because I’ve lived it and I went to school for it. This lets me help families be who they are, without bribing or forcing kids to be perfectly posed in photos or video. I know how to give a child space until they’ve warmed up to me, and how to connect with you and your kids on a deeper level.
For Families
Photos and family video of the ordinary, beautiful moments, captured in your home.
For Births
Birth video and photos of the raw, real, and sacred. This is the moment everything changes.
For Maternity + Newborn
Sessions that capture life, for when you’re expecting a new family member or just brought a little one home.
SADIEE RECENTLY RECEIVED HER FIFTH FAMILY FILM IN FIVE YEARS (AND SHE HAS ANOTHER ONE BOOKED!)
“Each film has captured a completely different season of life, and they all hold such a massive place in my heart. I can’t even explain the gratitude I feel knowing I can pass these down to my kids one day.”
“I loved her ability to capture and tell a family’s story in a way that was unique to them. I had never seen anything like what she was creating before. I knew I wanted a film, but I had a major hang up. We were living in a rental house that I was honestly pretty salty about. It wasn't my dream home, and it definitely wasn't aesthetic. I struggled with the vanity of it all. Was I really going to invest this much into a film that wasn't even set in a house I loved? At the end of the day, this was our kids' home. This was our safe space and their childhood, and I wanted that preserved and preserved exactly as it was.
We hired Jennie, and she traveled down to Tampa Bay in October of 2021 to film us for the first time. Admittedly, I can be a bit of a control freak. But I knew for the film to be authentic, I had to release all control and just let things unfold. That meant my kiddos ended up in mismatched PJs, and my son may or may not have been squatting on the table licking pancake batter, but it was them. Raw and real.
The experience was so fun and incredibly laid back. There was zero stress, no rushing around, and none of those classic parent fights you usually have on the way to typical family photos. Jennie just integrated like a fly on the wall and let us do our thing. Even my husband commented afterward on how low stress it was compared to the multiple staged sessions I’d subjected him to in the past.
I never expected to be emotional watching that first film. Now, five years later, I pretty much expect to sob, but that first one really took me by surprise. It still gets me the most because it represents the furthest my kids will ever be from being that little again. That film took place three kids ago. It was the OG fam during a time when life felt incredibly overwhelming, yet was probably the simplest it’s ever been.
My phone is filled with thousands of videos that just sit there, beautiful moments stored in the cloud. But those clips don’t tell our story as a whole for the season of life we were in each year. And since I’m the one mostly filming, I’m hardly ever in any of them. These films changed that.
Listen to my interview on The Sensible Mama Podcast where I talk in depth about Family Films, Real life memories being captured and Birth Videography and Photography.
UNPOSED, AUTHENTIC PHOTOGRAPHY AND FAMILY VIDEO
From the sounds of your children’s voices, to the little moments of connection, these are the memories you never want to forget.
For Families
Photos and family video of the ordinary, beautiful moments, captured in your home.
For Births
Birth video and photos of the raw, real, and sacred. This is the moment everything changes.
For Maternity + Newborn
Sessions that capture life, for when you’re expecting a new family member or just brought a little one home.