MissySue Hanson, Photographer

MissySue Hanson, Photographer Documentary Photojournalist Professional Project Photographer and Photojournalist, Educator, Speaker and Writer.

01/18/2026

Visual Memoir coverage is now open for booking. ✨ Natural, unposed, unscripted visual documentation of real life, as it happens.

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Rory with his mask, Chicago, 2025.
12/28/2025

Rory with his mask, Chicago, 2025.

Chicago, 2025.
09/25/2025

Chicago, 2025.

Maternity in the studio ❤️
09/02/2025

Maternity in the studio ❤️

Gma and the Agape, Self Portrait, 2009, St. Clair, MO | From the photo project, “Lollar Branch”.“In order for my grandma...
07/23/2025

Gma and the Agape, Self Portrait, 2009, St. Clair, MO | From the photo project, “Lollar Branch”.

“In order for my grandma to avoid washing dishes, she developed a ritual. She would throw the dirty dishes littering the kitchen counters, some of the piles as tall as the cabinets, into trash bags and have me haul the bags to “the dump”, an almost endless heap of trash that sat below the bluffs and crawled outward towards the woods in the acreage behind the trailer. I would stash the good dishes in the stands of pines that lined the sandstone platform of the bluff before throwing the bags over.”

You can read the full blog post on my website.

From the project, “Lollar Branch”, St. Clair, MO 2009.My grandpa used to make us put our feet up every time we passed ov...
07/23/2025

From the project, “Lollar Branch”, St. Clair, MO 2009.

My grandpa used to make us put our feet up every time we passed over train tracks. I remember my feet hovering over the thin floorboards of his truck, swaying from side to side, the jolt of going over making me raise my knees higher for fear of some consequence if my feet were to actually come down and touch.

I never asked him why. I wonder why I didn’t. I was a curious kid and I especially loved superstition so I find it strange now that I never questioned him about it.

My grandma, his wife— had what I thought of at the time as backwards superstition; if you saw a black cat, it was good luck. If you heard the cawing of crows or saw them, their murders flying high above your head, more good luck.

This particular train track is within 100 feet of my mom’s front yard, at the house my grandparent’s gifted to her. I’ve been to the circus once in my life and I absolutely hated it. It was a Ringling Bros. Circus.

I watched as the animals were entertainment and I hated all of us humans in that arena. I held my light-up torch in my hand and squeezed and silently wished the tigers would break loose and slaughter us all for bearing witness.

When this train would pass years later, both things would come to my mind as I snapped the shutter— pick up your feet and release the tigers.

Summer days (and nights) make for some pretty great moments.
06/18/2025

Summer days (and nights) make for some pretty great moments.

Still one of my most favorite images I’ve ever captured.
06/16/2025

Still one of my most favorite images I’ve ever captured.

From the project, “The Poison Apple and the Angel Down the Street”, St. Clair, MO, 2017.
06/06/2025

From the project, “The Poison Apple and the Angel Down the Street”, St. Clair, MO, 2017.

From the project, “21 Years Apart”.St. Clair, MO.
06/06/2025

From the project, “21 Years Apart”.
St. Clair, MO.

Robert, in the studio.St. Clair, MO.
06/06/2025

Robert, in the studio.
St. Clair, MO.

Nahni, in the studio.St. Clair, MO.
06/06/2025

Nahni, in the studio.
St. Clair, MO.

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