09/30/2026
Photographing families I know and love—or, in this case, that ARE my family—is a privilege unlike any other.
There’s something especially intimate about photographing people who already know you, while also stepping back enough to become invisible behind the camera. I don’t see these people every day, so every time I do, there’s a little bit of discovering them again—their growth, their quirks, their personalities.
Getting to witness that through my camera feels incredibly special. And when I go through the images afterward, they touch my heart in a way that photographs of people I don’t know simply can’t.
And then I think about their mom.
She has told me there aren't many photos of her with her kids. And that is one of the biggest reasons I care so much about family photography. Moms are so often the ones making sure everyone else gets photographed (and clothed. and fed!), while quietly disappearing from the story themselves.
I want to change that.
I want to give moms photos of themselves with their babies, their big kids, their wild kids, their grown kids. Photos that show what it felt like to be their mom in this particular little season of life.
And I want their kids to have those photos, too.
Because someday, these little people will want to remember what it was like to have their mom taking them on adventures and loving them along the way.
