Meet Your Atlanta Photographer
I was always the girl with the camera, seeing life one picture at a time. Maybe it’s because I have an awful memory, or the way pictures help me see what is really in front of me, but photography has always been important to me.
One of those rare Atlanta natives you hear about, I studied photojournalism in Boston and came right back home after four very cold winters.
I'm married to my best friend, and we've made a lovely life together in our old Atlanta bungalow. We have two really cool kids who are growing up too quickly, plus a dog who thinks she's a human.
I'm an introvert who loves books, podcasts, baseball and ice cream; stories make me happy. Community and social justice are essential goals, and interesting light makes my heart sing.
Everything about family inspires me— Mothers. Fathers. Childhood. Connection. Chaos…I take the picture when I see aspects of family happening in interesting ways, or in ways that make me feel something. Interesting light is the icing on the cake.
I’ve been documenting stories of childhood and parenthood for families since 2010, with the guiding belief that every story deserves to be remembered authentically, and that you just can’t beat real life.
My name starts with ‘ch’ like cherry and rhymes with ‘panda’
I’m a mom. I know that the struggle is real, and the days are long. But I also know that it passes you by way too fast. This moment is just a blip, and I should’ve gotten in the pictures more.
I’m also a doula and birth photographer, and you can find out more about that over at www.thebirthstorycollective.com
My favorite pictures of my own childhood and now of my own children, has never been the staged portraits. It’s always been the photos that include my home, and the authentic (sometimes messy and sometimes weird) pieces of the real story that I cherish. That’s the meat of the coconut.
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson