I photograph people in their homes by a conscious choice. I want them to feel safe and loved while I photograph them. I want them to have memories of how it is this season in their lives. Because I know someday there will be a scent, a sound, a texture that will bring them back to where they feel at home now.
In-home sessions are meant to catch those details people are afraid of missing or forgetting. If that sounds appealing but you’re still on the fence, perhaps it’s a good idea to take a look at this post and erase your doubts.
Looking for new ideas on how to display photos around my desk, I came across an article talking about how displaying our family portraits on our walls boosts our children’s self-esteem.
Do you print your family photos? If you don’t I hope you find this post useful and that it encourages you to start doing it soon!
I’ve been photographing families for a long time now. Families from different countries and cultures. And being a mother myself, I learned a lot by watching other people interacting with their children.
I see myself reflected on many gestures and actions. And I appreciate and learn from the differences I also see.
Family photography taught me a lot about parenting. It helped me to feel less lonely seeing parents from all over the world raising their children so differently and yet struggling with so many similar things.
It shows me the beauty of the differences. The humanity of the mundane. The love of the everyday rituals.
To photograph families, to photograph motherhood, is humane. It’s gentle. And it allows me to give to mothers the gift of contemplating the way they contemplate their children.
From my own story, I learned. And the way my children were born and the things I missed and can’t remember now influenced the way I portray motherhood today.
To be productive allows me to stop worrying. No, it doesn’t take away the fear, but as I told you in a different post, to avoid scrolling news these days is almost impossible. And it’s draining and stressful.
That’s why I decided to start blogging and taking pictures of our self-isolation.
I’m sharing with you 8 Instagram accounts for isolated parents. Because these days we need extra help. Nobody really knows how to deal with a Pandemic. But sharing ideas and tips will help us all.
Since my second pregnancy, I knew I wanted to photograph births. To document such an intimate, beautiful, and completely raw moment it’s been in my dreams for long.
And today, I can say that nothing about my work fills my heart more than to capture the magic of new life. To photograph births is a joy. Yes, it takes a lot of work and being on-call is not for everyone. But to me, it’s worth it.
