“I believe every image is an energy exchange - a moment of alignment between soul, story, and light.”
ABOUT NICOLE
Nicole Scafiddi captures true emotion through photographs that portray lifes’ joyful and enchanting moments. Through an artistic vision, unveiling an intimate journey is Nicole’s passion. A visual storyteller, it’s all about authenticity and delivering blissful memories for generations to come.
Nicole specializes in newborn, maternity, family and lifestyle photography, with a style that evokes natural affection and the power to take your breath away. She is the founder of the art of MANDALOGY™ seeing life as a utopia of passing moments, she’s continually inspired to capture our intuitive connection with nature as a sacred mindfulness practice.
Her mission is simple: to make every client feel completely at ease, especially the tiny ones. It’s this approach that allows her to capture the very best in everyone who steps in front of her lens. Her experience and gentle connection to newborns and babies is pure. Her imagery evokes tenderness and truth celebrating the essence of family, motherhood, and our collective cycles of growth and renewal. Her style is natural, luminous, and rooted in presence.
A native New Yorker born into a family of photographers, Nicole’s relationship with the camera began in childhood, nurtured in her family’s commercial lab and studio. That early exposure to both craft and creativity shaped her eye for detail and reverence for light. Nicole’s career journey encompasses leading photo studio operations for the legendary Harry Winston, "Jeweler to the Stars". For over a decade, she has produced and directed photo and video campaigns for iconic brands such as Coach, David Yurman, Diane Von Furstenburg, Nordstrom, The Jones Group, The Knot Weddings and Tommy Hilfiger. Her experience as a director has developed the opportunity to build creative teams from the the ground up and work behind the scenes with the top beauty and fashion photographers & stylists in the industry today.
Nicole is a Communication Arts graduate from St. John’s University and studied Photography & Digital Imaging at NYU. She is also a devoted student of mindfulness and philosophy, which continue to influence her approach to art, motherhood, and spiritual practice.
Through the art of MANDALOGY™, Nicole invites others to slow down, reconnect with nature, and rediscover beauty as a path to inner stillness — transforming photography into a form of visual meditation.
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Capturing stories across New York, New Jersey, and the coastlines that connect them!
WEBBY AWARD WINNING PHOTOGRAPHY PRODUCER
Nicole Scafiddi is a New York and New Jersey–based portrait and lifestyle photographer creating timeless, light-filled imagery for families across the Tri-State area and select destinstinations, she documents meaningful moments with artistry and intention, images designed to be treasured for generations.
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