We lovingly started calling ourselves “Bodyguards of Joy.” Here we were, in the middle of a global pandemic, believing that life still needed to be celebrated, needed to be remembered, needed to be documented. We believed that a virus could take a lot of things from us, but joy didn’t have to be one of […]

I never expected it to happen. When I first picked up a camera, ten years ago, I never expected it to happen. I never expected to fall in love. With the way light would fall across a room or the way two people could smile at each other or the way my soul expanded while […]

You know what’s funny about spending the majority of your time with couples?? You sometimes forget that they weren’t always a couple. You forget that they each have individual histories. You forget that they didn’t always know each other. You forget that their stories weren’t always one. Or were they? I often catch myself wondering […]

It was the house. That was one of the hardest parts for me; the house. Growing up, I had a difficult time feeling “in control”, so one of the ways that I managed that was to keep my room meticulously clean. Every day. All the time. Of course, as I got older and I ventured […]

The very first time I found out a friend was having a baby was on a Tuesday morning, around 8am. We had just stopped for coffee before work and were in the midst of crossing the street when she grabbed my arm and said “Look, I need to tell you something and it feels weird […]

Confession: meeting clients for the first time was one of the hardest parts of my job to get used to. As a natural introvert, getting to know people in the early stages of any relationship can feel like a daunting task…but making plans to meet up with a couple that you’ve never met before felt […]