About Me…

I am a selfie queen. There, I said it. Why does this matter? Because I am plagued with the same reality that plagues you: I am the one who takes the photos. HARDLY ANY PHOTOS OF ME IN THE FRAME EXIST. I’m willing to bet that you share this same reality. You don’t have to only exist in the frame of selfies. Listen to my words. YOU DESERVE TO BE IN THE FRAME. Let me repeat that.

YOU DESERVE TO BE IN THE FRAME.

If you made it through my selfie vault, hi. I’m so glad you’re here.

Those are my two amazing kids in all of my selfies. I feel lucky every single day that they chose me to be their mom. Don’t get me wrong, motherhood is completely overwhelming and bananas, and I often feel like I can’t keep up or I’m failing. I know I’m not. I know motherhood is just HARD. We often don’t talk openly and publicly enough about how hard it is, and how isolating it can feel. I see you.

As a kid I remember looking at the portraits of people from far away places on the covers of National Geographic and thinking to myself “that’s what I want to do”. Like many others, maybe even you, that calling was put in a back pocket because “art” isn’t a real profession. So my path led me to a B.A. in sociology and then a career in marketing. I always had a camera and took some college photography courses for fun (back in the day when it was film and we actually used the dark room) and I photographed for myself. When my son was born, I bought myself a “real” DSLR and started documenting him and our life as a family. I have so many photos of him. And hardly any of me with him.

After my daughter came along two and a half years later, I knew it was time to retire from my marketing career and be a full time stay at home mom. I am so incredibly lucky we were able to do that. As hard as it was raising tiny humans, and wondering how long two hours in the morning could possibly last, I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Throughout those years I really began to hone my photography craft. I knew I wanted to photograph professionally, when the time was right.

Fast forward 13 years and here I am. A now single mom, raising big kids who are going through puberty and finding motherhood to be HARD in a completely different way.

And a photographer who has fallen in love with showing women who they are through my lens. Giving them the safe space to see themselves in a completely different way. Documenting women with their kids so they don’t have to rely on a whole bunch of selfies as their legacy. Seeing the in-between moments and creating images of authentic emotion and connection. Helping women tell their stories through images.

I am so lucky to do what I do.