08/16/2026
I’ve been calling this a pivot, but the truth is…it feels a lot more like coming home.
Documentary photography has always been what I loved.
The messy moments. The weird expressions. The movement. The laughter. The tiny interactions happening in the background that nobody else notices.
The photographs that feel like *something*.
But somewhere along the way, I started believing that if I wanted to run a successful photography business, my images needed to be perfect.
Perfect light.
Perfect posing.
Perfect outfits.
Perfect locations.
Perfect editing.
I thought being a professional photographer meant creating beautiful, polished images—and so I built a business around that.
And I'm proud of the work I've created.
But if I'm being completely transparent, I've spent a lot of time trying to fit my photography into what I thought it was *supposed* to look like instead of trusting the photographer I've always been.
So this isn't really me becoming a documentary photographer.
**I've always been one.**
I'm just finally giving myself permission to build my business around it.
Going forward, you'll see a lot more real life here.
Documentary family photography. Weddings photographed for the story rather than the shot list. Street photography. Imperfect moments. Movement. Grain. Emotion. Humor. Chaos. Connection.
Will I still make beautiful portraits of you? Absolutely.
But I don't want to spend our entire time together trying to manufacture perfection.
I want your kids to be weird.
I want you to laugh so hard your face does that thing you hate.
I want windblown hair and crooked shirts and toddlers who refuse to cooperate.
I want the photograph you didn't even realize I was taking to become your favorite.
Because I've realized something:
**My job isn't to make your life look perfect.**
It's to show you how beautiful it already is.
And THAT is the photographer I want to be. 🖤
