Amy McMullen - storywork

Amy McMullen - storywork a picture maker and
story-shaker

i help people tell their truest stories
and rewrite the ones that hinder them. your story matters. ours are intertwined.

i believe in a world where we take care of each other and witness one another.

been remiss in sharing here, what with the s**t show we gotta scroll through on socials, but then remembered that art! m...
03/14/2026

been remiss in sharing here, what with the s**t show we gotta scroll through on socials, but then remembered that
art! music! community! these are things we must be armed with to beat fascism.
here is a gorgeous warm night last fall, at the showdown saloon, where casey neill had a residency and talented pals joined in and i had flashes of my teeny tiny babies singing, "hurray for the riff raff" so many moons ago. music saves, is all i'm sayin.

also you can always hire me to shoot your shows. sometimes i even take tickets and high fives for payment.

k, love you.

hey hello, i still make pictures! (working on other online spaces to share that aren't meta, but till then) still bask...
02/18/2026

hey hello, i still make pictures! (working on other online spaces to share that aren't meta, but till then) still basking in the love packed in to salem's The Governor's Cup Coffee Roasters, where we celebrated the magic of tim knight, a legend of the city and adored by hordes of us. uncle to my sister friend. the original tk. generous heart. coolest cat.

that we our stories run together. that art can get us free. that our ripples leave a comfort. that we make a thing to leave behind that betters another. that was the gist of it for me.

let's take care of each other.

05/15/2025

have had the good fortune of making some epic images with clients ready to bring their creativity and ideas to life, but this one may take the 🍰. ✨

booking summer sessions now!

peeking head out from cave to give you sweet love to soak up. here are two dears making their way in a wonky world - dec...
12/10/2024

peeking head out from cave to give you sweet love to soak up.
here are two dears making their way in a wonky world - deciding to trust themselves and each other enough to make a go of it. they make each other stronger, better, more whole.
if that's not a light in the dark i'm not sure what is.
love you, ro and ava.

lookin back on the sweetest senior sessions, and loving the fresh ones coming through. this sugar first graced my lens w...
10/05/2023

lookin back on the sweetest senior sessions, and loving the fresh ones coming through.
this sugar first graced my lens when she was 3ish.
time is wild. ✨

it's HOT here in oregon and it got me thinkin' back on one of my favorite sessions in the last year, in the late fall, i...
07/04/2023

it's HOT here in oregon and it got me thinkin' back on one of my favorite sessions in the last year, in the late fall, in beautiful and very cold montana.
his mama became my most precious bestie when she was the age he is now, and the first photos i made of him he was three weeks old. and now. and how!
this wonderful human is as much a delight inside and in-person, as those dimples would have you think, and i'm proud as peaches of who he is and where he's goin'.
congrats, Wyatt, and so many amazing kids that made it through the wildest of times.

my most darling niece ronan. always her very own clever and whimsical and hilarious self. always paying attention, takin...
03/31/2023

my most darling niece ronan. always her very own clever and whimsical and hilarious self. always paying attention, taking things in, staying curious. loving on the world and the smallest creatures in it. reasons to hope, folks.

one day they're four, swinging their legs over lunch after pre-k, discussing the existence of nothingness and where babi...
03/29/2023

one day they're four, swinging their legs over lunch after pre-k, discussing the existence of nothingness and where babies actually come from,
then they're finding their own way and finding new answers.
it's the sweetest, to get to be the one to capture who they are when on their way.

sometimes i have quite mixed feelings about the internet and social (is it, though?) media and want to throw my phone in...
03/29/2023

sometimes i have quite mixed feelings about the internet and social (is it, though?) media and want to throw my phone in the river and sometimes i’m reminded that it can connect us and result in real togetherness, which is what i’m in it for. after their mama started following my work a dozen years ago, i finally got to soak up the real life sparkle of these kids i’ve watched grow up on a grid; to hear their laughs and witness their delight in each other, their own confidence and unique, endearing spirits.
maybe sometimes i forget how much i love this work.
thankful for spirited reminders.

i was telling our therapist how yucky it felt to try to talk about my work when there were so many atrocities- thousands...
02/10/2023

i was telling our therapist how yucky it felt to try to talk about my work when there were so many atrocities- thousands dead in the earthquakes, ongoing war, constant school shootings, systemic racism, climate collapse - that it never felt appropriate to share what i’ve been learning or offering or to take up much space when there’s such heaviness. she let me go on and on and then and when i had tired she said, “when i hear you list off all these true ugly things, all i can think is what better time for self-actualizing, for being seen and in community, no? (she’s so rad that she knows my website well and refers clients to it). if you ask me your work is quite timely!” and that thought felt much better. after sitting with it a minute, i said, ‘i guess it’s not like i’m selling blood diamonds or anything”, and she cackled out loud and THAT made me feel even better.

maybe we just keep being better and doing better and lifting each other - so that if you get a chance to make someone laugh, (especially your therapist) or make someone feel loved (especially the loneliest of us), best take it. and if you get a chance to share joy, as mary oliver says, it’s not meant to be a crumb.

admittedly, most my photo work from recent years has been archived without sharing much, as the world at large shifted p...
02/03/2023

admittedly, most my photo work from recent years has been archived without sharing much, as the world at large shifted pretty drastically as did my own life and work and it all felt like too much at once, then. now it doesn't, and feels more like time to dig in a bit, to the work ahead and behind.
time's pretty watery at this point anyway.

case in point: darling korah and joe, korah who i've known since girlhood with her heart mate on a flower farm my friend christine has created from dust and grit on the island I lived on and loved for so long. korah and joe who will have their own lives and kids and stories and i was lucky to be there for a quick bit of it.

pretty lucky to witness all this gorgeous humanity

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Portland, OR

Telephone

+15039139165

Website

http://www.navigatorpdx.com/

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