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Nathan Rivers Chesky - Photography and Film

Equal parts director and documentarian. Vibrant and lasting imagery. Candid and creative. Hi!
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I am Nathan Rivers Chesky, an Asheville-based wedding photographer and videographer. My work, my passion, is to emphasize movement in carefully crafted visual stories. Within a feature film or a single frame, I want the image to cut straight to the core. Find and capture the essence of a subject and feel a connection to the character contained within.

03/23/2023

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania for Swahili Coast. 3 of 3. Curiosity.

tying up this week of posts from Tanzania with this set today. starting, as always with gratitude. followed by my continuing love of the process. and now it’s a look forward with an ever deepening curiosity.

i have a curiosity for this world i hope to never completely satiate. thanks for inviting me in.

i love my job because of this. meeting so many of you during monumental moments in your lives and often following along - and even tagging along - to the next.

daily, I attempt to cultivate curiosity. even ( maybe especially ) about the things I think I already know. which within an ever changing, evolving, and often deconstructing industry and art form is not only advantageous but perhaps necessary.

unfreeze the ice of what you think you know and let the water flow.

so that’s what I have learned from my time on the road. this time. i am pledging to be less guarded. to allow curiosity, as it
often does, lead to understanding. which will serve to bring the world a little closer together. so here is a little more understanding for us all to admire. i mean, common - give it up for the outrageously beautiful

finally we have finished all my wandering thoughts, for now. whew! i know, i am relieved too. but really just enjoy some lovely pictures. may they spark a speck more curiosity in your world.

03/21/2023

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania for Swahili Coast. 1 of 3. Gratitude.

I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to spend a good chunk of this winter traveling and creating. Especially to warm places!

Creating compelling images, making portraits, capturing the world as it is and as it can be, is my life's work.

Weddings are such a perfect way to get an insight into people's lives and families. So much happens, everyone is present, and there are moments you plan and create and even more that just happen.

Being flown across the world to East Africa by some truly inspiring clients to do what i do best for was, for me, perhaps the most fitting and satisfying way to spend my winter.

Here is some honest work from an honest company doing beautiful things in this world. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to help them tell their story.

I am ready to tell some more.

Also, I don’t normally post so many photos of myself, but I am always asked about this. So here you are! This is me in my element. thanks 📸:

( More from this gig will be popping up this week)

01/24/2023

C + E 💛

i miss summer! im gonna go find some.

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planner:

01/10/2023

catching up posting.

one more time for these two & my neighbors :

my favorite is the one where she catches me hiding in the leaves during the ceremony.

🍁 🫣

01/10/2023

w & m 💛 🌼 ⚡️

i love Homewood.

everyday i jog by this venue and i think about how grateful i am to live around such beauty and history.
+
all this true vibrant color.

📍 my neighbors :

12/21/2022

So so excited to have my wedding photography featured by my favorite, Junebug Weddings!

Citizen Vinyl is definitely my choice for the most hip place to get married in Asheville, NC.

Susan and Madison's wedding turned out so so lovely, after a myriad of last minute changes. Read the article and enjoy every photo :) https://tinyurl.com/2z49e36z

Venue – Citizen Vinyl
Wedding Attire – Angela Kim Couture

DJ – Mixology DJ Entertainment
Hair Styling – Natalie Webb
Rings – Lauren B Jewelry & Diamonds
Rentals – Indigo Event Rentals
Catering – Sweet Cheeseus
Cake – Karen Donatelli Cake Designs
Snacks – Blunt Pretzels

12/15/2022

last one. i promise.

more elopements please.

i promise i don’t do this often ( or for any sort of algorithmic advantage) but i just love the last one.

it’s actually a fitting image as the last one, otherwise i wouldn’t make you keep swiping with no purpose :)

ps. so many of y’all ig users complaining in the new notes feature about the new notes feature… as if ya didn’t know if you just don’t use the feature, it won’t pop up at the top everyone’s inbox. 🤷‍♀️

12/14/2022

my goodness. what can i say?

i love every single one of these more than the previous.

Sonia & Chad put their complete trust in me on this important day.

earnest and grateful i accepted that trust and ran with it.

there are too many more. blog post to come soon when i’m out of the editing woods!

thank you and ! 💛

12/12/2022

Junebug Asheville just north in Weaverville, NC.

i absolutely adore this venue. laid back and romantic. stay with your whole party in a collection of these great campers and how about that treehouse?!

congrats to Kate & Doug! 🍾

yes it is still technically fall!

ahead on gallery deliveries means behind on instagramingingingjngjamming.

12/08/2022

another set, this time vertical, of the lovely and absurdly fun Marisa & Eric.

another classic location i love! reach out for info :)

12/07/2022

love isn’t something weak people do.

being a romantic take as hell of a lot of hope.

i think what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope.

12/06/2022

Morgan and David’s mountaintop engagmeent session in Black Mountain.

Excited to capture their wedding next year!

Also, in order preserve the peace of these woods, i won’t be tagging my locations around here anymore :)

I spent my childhood on this mountain. Reach out if you are interested in this location!

12/02/2022

i love movement. and romance. and all the little moments. AND a piñata smashing!

okay i’m done. but honestly choosing only 30 was still a huge task for me.

love these two for their encouraging and collaborative spirit on their gorgeous, misty, executing day.

and for being the best 2nd out there! check out his groom portrait ( slide 5 ) and his page. he’s moving to Asheville soon and we will have much more for you coming down the line!

10-31-2022

👰‍♀️: .darrowyork
🤵: .s.york
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35mm:
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DJ:

12/02/2022

Aimee & Jarod 🤍

10-31-2022

👰‍♀️: .darrowyork
🤵: .s.york
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35mm / 2nd shooter:
celebrant:
DJ: welterentertainment

11/28/2022

for creatives, artists, and adventurers in love.

like so many of my couples recently, i wish to add these two as collaborators in the work.

absolutely nothing makes me happier than clients finding me because they wish to capture something romantic and creative.

congrats 🎉 & on their propsal and engagement at

11/15/2022

Brian pulled off one heck of a surprise at 💍

Brian and Katherine 💛

11/10/2022

catching up. i’ve had the busiest season and the best clients 💛

Susan and Madison’s Wedding at 10-01-22

👰‍♂️ 👰‍♀️ & Attire:
planner:
Attire:
DJ:
Hair:
🎥 & 📸 :

11/10/2022

Susan and Madison’s Wedding at 10-01-22

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👰‍♂️ 👰‍♀️ & Attire:
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11/08/2022

and now in horizontal…

🏙 🍂 💛

11/08/2022

a lil downtown Asheville, post-elopement, photo session with the lovelies Meghan & Raffaele.

if you’re in love as much as these two, we can get creative anywhere 💛

10/29/2022

about tonight.

yeah i know posting late on a Friday night is IG algorithmic idiocracy.

but these two deserve it, and whatever, idiocrcy was a great film, way ahead of it’s time.

just a few stills from an upcoming wedding film for Sarah and Cody ❤️

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10/11/2022

last bit of summer weddings before all the fall shoots drop.

💛 molly & ryan 🌻

what an amazingly wild one!

Weddings photo

10/04/2022

oh boy, it sure feels like fall.

working hard through all these summer edits!

Shanel & Robby being very in love at the venue with best view of downtown AND the Blue Ridge Mountains

love it up here.

09/08/2022

and on the rainiest day of the season, the sun shone on us for one glorious hour.

these two were so into each other it made my job so easy.

09/06/2022

a very quick shoot for jess & jerin hiding away at .

it was the busiest day at Biltmore I had ever seen and these two ran away for their surprise propsal. i tracked them down!

there’s always a space to find your perfect atmosphere for your moment.

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http://www.nathanchesky.com/

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Carly Taich - Give Me a Likeness - Music Video - Directed by N...

Give me a Likeness was shot and directed by Nathan Rivers Chesky, an Asheville-based freelance photographer and videographer. His work emphasizes movement in carefully crafted visual stories. Within a feature or a single frame, Nathan cuts straight to the core. We see the essence and feel his connection to the character contained within his subjects. In many cases, as with GMAL, that may simply mean shining a light on a song that demands your attention. "Taich and music video director Nathan Rivers Chesky elaborated on this theme in the video, which gives us impressions of Taich....Give Me a Likeness" is the first song on the B-side of Reverie, Taich's soon-to-be-released LP....here's "Give Me a Likeness.'"-Asheville Asheville Grit http://ashevillegrit.com/getting-close-carly-taich-music-video-premiere-give-me-likeness