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@wearememorycult January project was auto archive the self as part of the family record, this was my take on the project.
Out of Frame: The Keeper of Memories
As documentarians, we all face the same quiet challenge: inserting ourselves into the frame. Our love for capturing moments often outweighs our desire to be seen in them.
I am the documentarian of my family. They tell me all the time, “Thank you for capturing all of our memories—we would have no photos without you.” And selfishly, my heart breaks a little, because no one ever turns the camera around to document me.
Not that I need to be included in everything—but if I left this earth, how would I be remembered if I was never seen?
This piece is about the painful side of being the family documentarian: watching the memories you created unfold right in front of your eyes without you, even though every part of them exists because of you. You are present in every moment, yet invisible in the frame.
I experiment a lot, but I rarely show my personal work for fear that it will clash with my business work. I told myself that 2026 will be the year I share more personal work—regardless of whether people understand it or like it.
This is a test roll of a shot at double exposure that I took in November at House on The Rock and a very cold day in Chicago. As this is dipping my toes in the art of double exposure, I def have to take more stabs at this and I am not mad about that at all.
When you hire me to photograph your family, forget all the rules you’ve been taught about how a family is supposed to look in photos—because that’s where the true magic happens ✨
Christmas season came and went in the blink of an eye, with my busiest season not stopping for three months straight. In the middle of it all, @britt.teas snapped some photos of me, James, and Daisy Mae—somehow even capturing a genuine smile from me.
I am very excited to enter my slow season, work on new projects and share all the work I made this last year with you all.
When two teachers ask you for engagement photos, of course the only appropriate backdrop is at the elementary school where it all started 🍎
It amazes me how deeply I love photographing kids and the beautiful chaos of home. The meltdowns, the messes, the noisy, ordinary moments—they’re the pieces of a season in your life you’ll never get back. Being welcomed into your space to document it is something I never take lightly. One day your home will be still and quiet, but I hope these photos become a way for you to return to this chapter… to feel it all again, without the weight of the mess.
Today marks my last wedding of 2025, closing out with a City Hall wedding. In honor of ending the season with an intimate elopement, it only feels right to share one of my favorites from this year, captured on film.
“I hope you’re my sister in every lifetime. I hope we always share a bedroom and a bathroom. I hope our biggest arguments are always about who gets to take a shower first. I hope the universe is kind enough to give me you again and again, because once can never be enough.
You were my first friend, the one who taught me how to share a world before I had to share it with anyone else. Half of my childhood is written in the sound of your laugh, and the other half is your voice calling my name down the hall, begging me to play Just Dance and karaoke. I hope in every lifetime you are just as clumsy as you are now — spilling juice on the carpet, tripping over your own feet, knocking over everything except the people you love — and somehow I love you even more for that. Because you move through life exactly as you are: a little messy, unapologetic, and perfectly human.
We have never been the same. You are the light to my darkness, always shining even when I can’t find the switch in my own room. We’ve always been completely opposite, but maybe that’s the point. Maybe God split one soul in two and gave each of us the pieces the other was missing.
You make me braver without even trying, and even when I don’t say it enough, know that I am and always will be your biggest fan in this life and every life that comes after.” - @hayleygracepoetry