Infused with the same artistic sensibility that Mark brings to his fine art photography, your portraiture will not only capture for all time the love and bond your family shares today, but also be a work of art appropriate to any collection.
“I flew my family across the country to get a family session done and I am so grateful I did.
The session was not only a wonderfully warm experience and the viewing was one of the most memorable date nights I’ve ever had. Seeing our children’s innermost expressions coming to life before us was a touching experience that brought us closer together.
The craftsmanship of the final products blew us away. The retouching was beyond our expectations. As a fellow photographer, I always admired Mark’s talent from afar, but this year I gave myself the gift of a Halper Fine Art session and I can not recommend it enough. My gratitude overflows.”
— Aileen Rensink, owner of Enchanted Fairies
The portraiture of today is your family’s legacy of tomorrow.
Working with an experienced and talented artist to create your artwork will bring a value to the life of your family that can only fully reveal itself over time. Mark has a special gift for connecting with children and capturing the cherished moments and fleeting expressions that bring joy to you and your family.
By choosing Halper Fine Art, you will be working with one of the only portraitists that photographs families who is also an acknowledged and respected fine art photographer in his own right. Your artwork will benefit from his personal expertise in lighting, composition and posing cultivated over decades of experience in commercial and fine art photography that is unrivaled amongst virtually any other family portrait studio.
Because vision and skill are important, we believe that working with the very best individual photographer is the most important single aspect of a successful session and great artwork.
You deserve to work with an accomplished photographer who has been trusted by clients that include Samsung, Johnson & Johnson. FedEx, Cedars-Sinai, Sony, and many others.
For that reason, we have limited our capacity so that every client is personally photographed by Mark, enabling him to bring the individual expertise and vision to your portraiture that have made him the portraitist of choice to photograph many of the most prestigious people in their fields, including Frank Gehry, Wolfgang Puck, Sumner Redstone, Bill Gates, Erin Brockovitch, and even Mr. T!
Enjoy the accolades and the satisfaction that accompany having your portrait created by a highly respected fine artist.
We love the pictures. The whole experience was a total joy!
— Sherry Lansing, Former head of Paramount Pictures
THE LEGACY OF JENNIFER HALPER
In early 2023, Mark’s wife and business partner, Jennifer Halper, unexpectedly passed away.
As much work as we did during the session, it was her artistry that allows your artwork to reach its true potential. Inch by inch, every aspect of your portraiture is closely examined and painstakingly enhanced by hand to remove blemishes, contour bodies, bring out expressions, address stray hairs, correct clothing issues, and present you in a way so that the final result is both strikingly beautiful and entirely natural.
Jennifer spent seven years on Academy Award winning visual effects teams. You’ve seen her work in the first three Spiderman movies, Superman Returns, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other major motion pictures. Jen loves to travel and lived in Japan for five years, where she received her MFA, and even spent a year abroad in Soviet Georgia. Jen worked with Mark for 14 years during which they ran Halper Fine Art together, and retouching and enhancing Mark’s photography to create the work for which HFA became respected and known.
It was her artistry that allows your artwork to reach its true potential. Inch by inch, every aspect of your portraiture is closely examined and painstakingly enhanced by hand to remove blemishes, contour bodies, bring out expressions, address stray hairs, correct clothing issues, and present you in a way so that the final result is both strikingly beautiful and entirely natural.
When not working hard into the evening, Jen could be found dancing on ice, attending a class at Cirque School, or traveling with Mark. She is deeply missed, and her legacy and standards live on in the standards and aesthetic she set.
Portrait of Mark by Jennifer Halper
There is no middle ground when it comes to excellence. I put my entire heart into every client.
A great portrait should be visually compelling, well composed, beautifully lit, and it must capture something of the soul that touches the heart.
I feel gratified to be able to create artwork that will be cherished long past my own lifetime.
— Mark Robert Halper
