10/21/2026
i spend so much of my life trying to preserve a moment for someone else, and lately, i’ve wondered how much of my own life i’m rushing through.
that’s a hard thing to admit as an artist. my work comes from noticing. from feeling things deeply. but it’s difficult to stay connected to that part of myself when everything moves so quickly in this world. post this. send this. finish this. share that. keep creating. keep up.
i miss making things without wondering if they’re enough. i miss being moved by something and letting that feeling belong to me for a little while.
photographing this season of someone’s life brings so much of that to the surface. because here is change you can see and change you can only imagine. a baby growing. a mother becoming. a familiar life about to make room for someone who will change it forever.
there is so much love in that. and so much vulnerability in loving a future you haven’t met yet.
i’m learning that being grateful for where life is going doesn’t mean you won’t ache for parts of how it used to be. you can welcome the change and still need a moment. you can be growing into a life you wanted and still feel overwhelmed inside it.
i don’t have a beautiful conclusion for all of this. i’m still in it. still trying to find my way back to the part of me that sees without comparing, creates without questioning, and knows how to be here. knows how to cherish the present with more intention and less worry about tomorrow.
but what I do know, is why i picked up a camera.
because life changes. because we change. because one day, a version of our lives we thought would last forever becomes a photograph we hold in our hands.
and i want to know i was there for it. that i felt it while it was mine, and helped the people in front of my camera hold onto what was theirs. 🤍