The name came from my nephew, who called himself a tiny voyager at the grocery store.

Grace Marsden started Tiny Voyager Studio in 2018 after four years of photographing weddings and realizing that the moments she kept going back to in the edit were always the flower girl spinning in the aisle or the ring bearer falling asleep under a chair. She wanted to make a whole practice out of those moments. The studio launched out of her apartment in Astoria, Queens, with a single speedlight, a reflector, and a waiting list of three families from her neighborhood. The name came from her youngest nephew, who at age two referred to himself as a 'tiny voyager' on a trip to the grocery store.

By 2020 the studio had grown enough that Grace was turning away bookings, and in spring 2021 she signed a lease on a dedicated studio space two blocks from the Astoria Park waterfront. The space has north-facing windows that run floor to ceiling, which means she almost never needs artificial light indoors. She shoots primarily on a Sony mirrorless system but keeps a Fujifilm X100V in her bag for the candid frames that happen between setups. The editing style leans toward natural tones with a slight warmth in the shadows, which she has kept consistent since the first year.