Hello! Thank you for your interest in my photography. I live in Portland, Oregon, with my husband, three children, two cats, and one dog. I am drawn to the beauty of shadow and light, both of which are plentiful in the Pacific Northwest. My earliest experience in photography was film and darkroom photography, which I studied in high school and college. I made the switch to digital photography when my children were born. The impulse to master digital photography sprung from my near desperate drive to capture the details of the changing seasons of childhood. Anticipatory grief for what will be lost to growth and change has been one of many emotional experiences of motherhood for me. I feel the bi-directional pull of wanting my children to stay the same and to grow. I grieve and celebrate every milestone, every centimeter added. Photography is my balm and consolation; it lets me freeze my children in this moment and it lets me release them with joy and gratitude into the next.

The practice of photography is the practice of seeing. With a camera in my hand, I am compelled to look for simple beauty and truth in everyday life. My work is inspired by my children’s lives and the light that surrounds them. My photography is successful when it transcends the specificity of “my children” and captures their humanity, the essence of our collective childhood, and the tender eye of the viewer. I am inspired by the works of Sally Mann, Alain Laboile, and Edward Weston. I am drawn to golden light and strive to capture the emotive and elegiac nature of this light in my color work. The revelatory experience of black-and-white photography captures my creative imagination. To read more about my love of black and white photography and my creative process, click here: