About
Helping you focus on what matters most to you.
Cutler Valley started as a photography studio. Over the last few years, it's grown into social media and websites for businesses across Kalamazoo and Southwest Michigan, from restaurants and bars to a historic artist studio building and a blacksmith forge.
The camera never went away. Every business I work with gets original photos, which is why their feeds look like them and not like everyone else's.
I own two small businesses myself, so I know how much time marketing can eat up. You didn't start your business to spend your free time figuring out what to post. My goal is to take that off your already full plate, with photos, video, captions, strategy, and websites that tell your story in a way that's authentically you.
Jutta Wilberding
Owner of Cutler Valley
Photography
Specializing in people who don't like their picture taken.
I love everything about photography. For many, picture day is one of the most dreaded days of the year. You see a photo of yourself and the first thing you look for is what you're the most self conscious about. "How's my double chin? Do I really have that many wrinkles? Where did that pimple come from? I look tired. I look stressed. That's not what I look like in my head." I get it. Oh, do I get it!
If your driver's license picture is your only experience with getting your photo taken, then, no, you're not going to be very excited for a session. But this is not an ID picture. This is your session! The time to show your personality. To have fun, be creative, try something new. Smoke bombs? Absolutely! Walk 10 miles around the city? I'm ready! Just have coffee and pretend I'm not there? Got it! And yes, at first it will be awkward, like a blind date or the first day of school. But I am a "no pressure" photographer, with mom jokes for days that will make you cringe and laugh and forget the camera is there. No two sessions are alike because no two people are the same.
Which session is my favorite? Yours! 😊