Portfolio

With my camera, I explore the world and find a way to convey my thoughts and feelings. A heartfelt connection motivates the aperture. I seek light, collaboration and play.

I began my professional photographic journey as a fine-art photographer, merging painting (another love) with black and white photography to create “handpainted” one-of-a-kind images.

Motherhood provided a new expressive avenue, focusing my lens on daughters and their friends. In a short time, my portfolio evolved to include misty coastal handpainted landscapes and handpainted children and family portraits.

Digital photography provided a new gateway for visual communication. I embrace technology and continue to create portraits and heirloom family and children photo art.

I have been an exhibiting photo artist since the beginning of my photographic journey and continue to combine art and photography to create special one-of-a kind images.

The photographs and corresponding portfolio pages highlight the many genres of photography I work within.

Family Portraiture

Capturing family portraits is an event I love to create and document. Portraiture is a collaboration and this gallery provides an aperture to the relationships I have maintained over many years of being a professional photographer.

Handpainted Photographs - Limited Editions

I began my journey as a professional photographer merging black and white silver gelatin photographs with oil paint. I call them" photopaintings" and each "photopainting" in this collection is part of a limited edition of 25. Every image is hand-printed in the darkroom (on gelatin silver photographic paper) and then handpainted with washes and layers of oil paints and artist materials to create one-of-a-kind exquisite art.

Children Portfolio

High-end portrait sessions photo artist Cheryl Machat Dorskind celebrate the gorgeous natural Hamptons’ light. Whether the setting is at the beach, a park, or a home, the lifestyle posed-but-not-posed images are fluid and rhythmic.

Portraits

I am fortunate to meet many fascinating people. This collection of portraits highlights some of the memorable people whom I have had the pleasure of photographing.

Hand Painted Portraits

From the beginning of my photography career, I married paint with photos. Photography was my canvass, color my voice. A handpainted photograph is a unique heirloom, created with love.

Local Color

Local Color is an organic body of work as Cheryl Machat Dorskind continues to explore the East End of Long Island where she lives. Each image is a pigment inkjet, printed on the finest museum-grade paper.