10/27/2024
Every Autumn for the past few years, I’ve been privileged to photograph some incredible and beautiful families at my annual Pop-Up Portrait Studio Days.
For many who come, they’ve made it a sort of tradition. Couples whose weddings I photographed 15 years ago have returned year after year. They have brought their newborns, and I’ve seen them become toddlers, enthusiastic preschoolers, self-conscious in-betweeners, and then, seemingly in a blink, towering teens. Seeing their families grow has been a joy I did not anticipate when we had our first holiday-themed family photo day 12 years ago. This blessing has led me to realize something about these photographs. Still images being still images, they are, by their nature, moments frozen. But they are not static. Mysteriously and profoundly, they are alive. They are a built-upon, cultivated, visual accounting of growth. Like the rings on a crosssection of a tree, they don’t just exist somewhere in a past otherwise forgotten, but are simultaneously memory and structure, a gift for the future version of ourselves.
This year, the Pop-Up Portrait Studio will be taking place on November 16th and 17th. I’m grateful for those who have already reached out before I could even secure the space to book their slot. Sessions are limited so comment below, or message me directly if you’re interested.
