Paige Young with New York Weekly Magazine

We love seeing what our midwest nice artists are up to! Congratulations to Paige Young for being selected as one of the Top 20 Female Disruptors To Watch Out For In 2025 in NY Weekly Magazine✨ Paige was featured in a fervent and necessary arrangement.

Paige Young is a full-time photographer who specializes in weddings, engagements, elopements, and any moment that needs to be remembered. She loves documentary photography and capturing real moments that deserve to be preserved for a lifetime. She believes that representation is crucial to society and making people feel they belong, so she strives to show inclusivity in every way possible within her platform. Paige is also a full-time photography and art professor at Grand Valley State University. She has been awarded the Wellbeing Award within her university which is awarded to professors that show high levels of care in and out of the classroom. She teaches theory within her photography courses and is actively making her own fine-art work to show her students as An example of crafting and curating as a practicing artist.

There is nothing more that fuels her soul than encouraging and growing new artists into their own skin, and lifting up the self-esteem and self-love of those in front of her lens. She is passionate about making people see themselves in a new and positive light, and centers all of her work around that goal.