about the artist

My name is Oksana Skolnaja owner of Rawsome Photography business. I grew up in the capital city Vilnius of a small beautiful country of Lithuania. My main photography background is photojournalism where I learned to photograph different events and tell the most interesting stories through visuals.

For the past ten years, I have been embracing Alaskan lifestyle, beauty, and outdoor adventures with my family. My focus is specializing in on-location family lifestyle portraiture, capturing love and genuine connections.

Having family wall art in our home is like a daily love affirmation to all that is important in life. I strive to not only make family sessions lively and fun, relaxing experience but also artfully transform those captured memories into heirloom art whether it is a beautiful museum canvas, framed fine art prints or signature albums.

I believe that our most precious memories belong on a tangible keepsake so we could treasure these moments daily that will outlive us someday. Our children grow up so fast, what I create for you today, your family legacy will live for generations to come.

Photographic achievements:

Oksana is a gold medalist in the Lithuanian Annual Press Photography Competition, the category of Glamour, 2009. This inspired her to pursue further photographing people raw in the moment. She is also a member of Professional Photographer’s of America where she keeps up with current education and professional business practices.

As a mother of two kiddos, I understand how stressful it can be to put all your family members together, make them look all picture-perfect. I do also emphasize making sure create beautiful portraits of mothers with their babies because most of the moms including myself take photographs of their husbands and babies but rarely ever have any professional portraits of them and their precious babies together. And Trust me, moms, I feel you, we do need portraits of us to exist with our children and I make sure to capture the most flattering portraits of you! I created a custom workflow, where you can relax and trust my expertise and enjoy the process.

Every successful business starts with great customer service and experience, which is why when You choose to work with me, your family photography needs will be well taken care of. I will guide you with every step of the way so all you have to do is show up for the session and enjoy it.

Most of the families I work with are amazed at how easy it was to work with me and how much fun they had.

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