Every Family Has a Story.

Preserve it.

At Inspired Impressions, it is our mission to reveal and preserve your family’s story through images. While a single session with Matt lasts about an hour and the final album consists of 50+ images. The story it relates is timeless. You will cherish it forever.

For the last several years, Matt Kosterman, self-styled “Visual Biographer” has been recording family’s stories. He has photographed hundreds of children in the Chicago area as well as Europe.

Yousef Karsh, a twentieth century Canadian portrait artist, was on to something when he said:

Your Album

Each session culminates in a hardbound album chronicling the story of your family. The album’s pages are laid out one at a time; no two albums are identical in layout or format.

Here are some photographs of finished albums. (Click on a thumbnail to open a slideshow.)

Below you can see pages from an Album. (Click on a thumbnail to open a slideshow.)

Ready to Hang Prints

Prints finished in our acrylic Liquidmounts® appear poised to leap from the walls while the simple black frames add the right amount of seriousness to your prints.

Sports Action

Sports is a big part of many kids’ lives. What better way to record this part of their story than to have incredible pictures take of them while at play? No Yearbook package is complete without images of your child enjoying their favorite activity. From baseball to soccer to gymnastics to swimming and everything in between, Matt will deliver the action shots. Click an image below to bring up a slideshow.

Shown above are a couple of Storyboards from baseball / softball along with a soccer action image.

Make Sure Your Story is Told

Equal parts photojournalism and sports / action photography, combined with a dash of portraiture and infused with a generous portion of intuition and timing, the photographs he captures and the albums he assembles are the result of Matt honing his craft for almost fifteen years. Whether you choose to engage him for a Storybook session or monthly sessions to create a Yearbook, the result will be the commitment of your family’s story to permanence. You will enjoy it today, tomorrow and ten years from now as you look upon images of your children that are authentic, sublime, and most of all — inspiring, bringing back memories of the beauty and love you brought forth into the world.