09/02/2026
This isn’t a decision I made lightly, especially as a photographer whose work is so deeply rooted in families, motherhood, and documenting childhood as it really is.
Last week, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, under existing Supreme Court precedent, the government could not criminalize a defendant’s private, in-home possession of obscene AI-generated CSAM depicting children who did not actually exist. The ruling was narrow, and the court itself acknowledged serious concerns about how dramatically AI technology has changed since the Supreme Court precedent it was required to follow.
But reading about the case forced me to think harder about something much closer to home: what happens to the photographs I put online after I post them.
I photograph real children. Children whose parents trust me with some of the most personal pieces of their lives. And once an identifiable photograph is publicly online, I can’t control who saves it, where it ends up, or how technology may be used to exploit it.
So I’m changing what I can control.
Moving forward, Gabby Grace Imagery will significantly limit identifiable images of children on public social media and marketing platforms. That doesn’t mean I’m going to stop photographing the tiny expressions, chaos, connection, scraped knees, newborn faces, or all the other pieces of childhood that make this work so important to me. Those memories still belong in your gallery. They just don’t automatically need to belong to the internet.
This may mean getting a little more creative about what I share publicly—and I’m completely okay with that.
A beautiful portfolio will never be more important to me than protecting the people whose stories I’m trusted to document.
Their memories are yours. Their faces don’t need to be everyone’s. ♡
