Growing up, I was an incredibly imaginative child. I spent my time singing, dancing and creating with any means possible. That said, photography was never on my radar and was something that happily fell into my lap in 2014. I casually photographed a couple's engagement photo session with a well seasoned friend only to find myself energized by the idea of photographing people in such ripe seasons of their lives.
Within two years of that, I had started a my business, moved cities, traveled the world photographing weddings all while building a substantial online presence. At the time, everything was so deeply exciting and moving incredibly fast. It was like I had was living in a fever dream of a life, not aware of what was happening under the surface.
As things started to take off, I found myself constantly battling a sense of anxiety and pressure to live up to the external achievements I had built so much of my life and identity around and by 2018, I found myself in deep burn out & not knowing who I was. The life I had built had lost it's shine and left me yearning for something deeper...real.
This started a long season of life where my focus shifted. I became a father to a now 5 year old boy that was been such a huge blessing to my life. The heaviness I felt forced me to begin diving deeper into myself, my values, interests and re-discovering who I was outside all the things I had hidden behind. I became deeply focussed on expanding my awareness of myself and learned through that what it means to create safe spaces for other people. I naturally became lighter, more carefree and and watched as that rippled through my life & my work. I largely learned that my own realness made space for other's as well and helped me create intimacy & trust with so many of the couple's I've had the pleasure of working with.
Now, I just feel energized by the process of watching the people who step in front of my camera open up, become more carefree and get to see themselves in their full on bad ass-ness and uniqueness. I fucking love getting to provide people with the memories from a day in which their entire community gathers in one space (probably for the only time ever) and celebrates like no one is watching. And above all, I just fucking love connecting with other humans and being a tiny piece of their story.
Growing up, I was an incredibly imaginative child. I spent my time singing, dancing and creating with any means possible. That said, photography was never on my radar and was something that happily fell into my lap in 2014. I casually photographed a couple's engagement photo session with a well seasoned friend only to find myself energized by the idea of photographing people in such ripe seasons of their lives.
Within two years of that, I had started a my business, moved cities, traveled the world photographing weddings all while building a substantial online presence. At the time, everything was so deeply exciting and moving incredibly fast. It was like I had was living in a fever dream of a life, not aware of what was happening under the surface.
As things started to take off, I found myself constantly battling a sense of anxiety and pressure to live up to the external achievements I had built so much of my life and identity around and by 2018, I found myself in deep burn out & not knowing who I was. The life I had built had lost it's shine and left me yearning for something deeper...real.
This started a long season of life where my focus shifted. I became a father to a now 5 year old boy that was been such a huge blessing to my life. The heaviness I felt forced me to begin diving deeper into myself, my values, interests and re-discovering who I was outside all the things I had hidden behind. I became deeply focussed on expanding my love for myself and learned through that what it means to create safe spaces for other people. I naturally became lighter, more carefree and and watched as that rippled through my life & my work. I largely learned that my own realness made space for other's as well and helped me create intimacy & trust with so many of the couple's I've had the pleasure of working with.
Now, I just feel energized by the process of watching the people who step in front of my camera open up, become more carefree and get to see themselves in their full on bad ass-ness and uniqueness. I fucking love getting to provide people with the memories from a day in which their entire community gathers in one space (probably for the only time ever) and celebrates like no one is watching. And above all, I just fucking love connecting with other humans and being a tiny piece of their story.
