I can’t believe it is December already. This last year we have all had to pivot, then re-pivot, then again, and again. Things are changing still, always, forever. Every time I think I know what is going to happen… things up and change. Each day I remind myself to be gentle with those who are grieving, and that is everyone now. We have all lost someone or something, some people many someones and somethings, it can feel heavy to face that.
When I was little I would sit for hours poring over my mother’s photo albums. I would leaf through each page, one by one. I’d ask her to tell me the story of each photo, where it was taken, who were the people in it, what year was it taken? Seeing the permanence that a photo held struck me even then. If you invite me over to your house, which perhaps someday you will, I will instantly be drawn to your wall of photos, your fridge, your gallery of school portraits on your stairway, the portrait of your grandmother in a tiny ornate frame on your desk. A blurry photo of your childhood pet, the one that was yours. The history of your family told through images will pull me in, I can’t tell you how many parties I’ve been to where I can barely hold a conversation because I’m too distracted looking at pictures. I don’t know how to help it, and I’m not sure I would want to if I could.
When I think about the thing that keeps me coming back to this work, this practice of photographing people, this dream of making a career out of it, it is that when I am taking photos of you, I am creating a chronicle of your life, something you can come back to years later. A photo can seem so commonplace now, in this world where everyone has a phone camera on them at all times, but I promise you, documenting your life is powerful. It is a window into your world that remains open. Photos are a fixed point, they defy time and space. It is thrilling.
I have been so fortunate to be able to photograph the same families over the course of time, to see how their lives have changed, to see their children grow, to witness and document the shaping and reshaping of lives, and have had the privilege of being invited in to photograph that.
I am offering a new type of session format, taking this thing that I love and making it intentional. I call it:
▸ Trip Around the Sun
A series of documentary photo sessions to create a visual archive of your life over the course of one year.
There are three options you can choose from.
12 one-hour documentary sessions, one per month, for one year, at 20% off ($316 per session.)
6 one-hour documentary sessions, one every other month, for one year, at 15% off ($335 per session.)
4 one-hour documentary sessions, one every three months, for one year, at 10% off ($355 per session.)
Each session will be chronologically added on to an online gallery and after the course of a year, there will be a full collection of images from your life.
Do you have questions? Please, let’s talk! I would love to hear from you. Contact me HERE.
