01/03/2022
Monday, January 3rd 2022...back to school, back to the office, back to our routines, but not back to normal. I'm back to work and I'd like to dedicate this first post of my New Year to the Class of 2022.
Izzy was my star photography subject during the start of my portrait career. For 8 years I photographed Izzy for every birthday, every Christmas, and I looked forward to our many sessions together as an opportunity to get creative, try new ideas, and push the envelope with a familiar and willing subject. I credit much of my growth as a portrait photographer to working with Izzy and her family. I’m so grateful for all the support and experience they provided me in those early years. When I heard the news of her upcoming graduation I was so honored to photograph her once again, yet filled with bittersweet memories of simpler times and the way things once were.
I owe my photography career to my high school years. I first picked up my dad's film SLR camera as a freshman to stage photo shoots with my friends or to just be cool and take candid shots at parties. I enjoyed my junior and senior years as a yearbook photographer documenting sporting events, theater productions, school dances, day to day life in class and so much more. This lead me to pursuing a career in photography and I'm so thankful for that trajectory from spending all those quintessential high school experiences with a camera in my hand. I can't imagine how different my life would have been without the ability to see and photograph all my classmates and friends in that way.
Class of 2022 - I'm sorry that so much of your high school experience has been spent navigating difficult times and that you’ll be graduating from this chapter of your lives surrounded by so much uncertainty as did the Class of 2021 and 2020 before you. I hope you emerge on the other side of this as stronger and hardier individuals who are ready to take on anything the world throws at us...or makes us endure for much longer than we thought we could ✨💪✨
