I create art out of the love between families, which I find tremendously meaningful.

As a lifestyle photographer, I strive to capture a family’s authentic moments. My families have so much heart and soul in them, and therefore, so do my photographs.

One of the best things about photographs is capturing these fleeting moments in children’s lives. Some day soon they’ll be all grown up, doing big things we can only imagine. I can’t wait to watch their journeys unfold. But for now, in this moment, they are still little kids, running barefoot through the grass and dirt, laughing and playing and peering curiously at the world. And it’s an honor to capture that.

I’m not afraid of my subjects playing outside, being wild and free, and even the occasional tears during a photoshoot. (Yes, it does happen!) These things are real. And I believe there is beauty in that, too. As any parent will tell you, life with kids is not full of moments where everyone is seated serenely side-by-side with perfectly combed hair and arms folded in their laps.

That’s not me… and it’s not you, either.

I don’t want your perfect. I want you and your authentic family, exactly as they are now.

I capture otherwise forgotten days in my family’s lives. I don’t photograph births, or weddings, or big important ceremonies. I photograph families on the same day they may have had soccer practice, doctor appointments, play dates, or any of the other myriad daily activities that compose our lives. And yet, I think that makes this even more significant. I photograph families on any old average evening, exactly as they are, in that moment. Somehow these days always seem to blur together, and then one day we wake up and the kids are starting school again. Maybe even highschool. Or college. And we wonder where the time went. 

There are no giant life milestones here in my photography.

But there is nostalgia here, if you only wait long enough.

These are the memories families hold closest to their hearts as they grow older. Laughter, and hugs, and joy, and connection. These are only simple moments on simple days, otherwise forgotten, but now forever captured. And I think that’s a special kind of milestone all to itself.

My work is intensely personal.

I pour my heart and soul into every photo I take, striving to bring something so magical and unique to my families that it is truly priceless. I hope my families look back on my photographs of them when they are old and gray, and those pictures will be their most treasured possessions.

I want my families to see themselves the same way I see them: Precious and unique and funny and tender and magical and chaotic and just so very perfect in their own way.

I just want my families to see how beautiful they already are, reflected in my art.