02/10/2026
Hello Instagram,
It’s been awhile. The last year was one of our best, yet perhaps ironically, I’ve been finding it more and more difficult to bring myself online to share about it.
We worked with incredible couples, participated in fabulous celebrations, and made some of the best work of our careers…yet I think something I’m the most proud of is the way we’ve been able to protect our presence through making boundaries around technology in our lives.
Building this business, I became chronically online. Anyone else out there know the feeling? 🙋🏻♀️
But eventually I started to realize that “promoting myself” online was coming at a huge cost. Hours started disappearing from my days and my phone was never far from my hand. Conversations would be interrupted so I could respond to a DM or check how my latest post was performing.
Social media started to feel like a burden - invading my most intimate moments and sabotaging my ability to be present in my day to day existence.
I believe that one of the things that contributes to great photography is the ability to be FULLY present with the people you’re photographing. And that state of being is a discipline both mental and spiritual.
Posting less often has lost us some followers, but I believe that it’s also helped us to do our jobs better when it really counts.
So thank you for your support and patience Instagram. We’ll still be here. Just - maybe less often then we once were.
Photographs I shot for the lovely in Chicago - edited by me.