09/03/2026
A small change in how I share my work. 🤍
I've been thinking a lot lately about photography, social media, and how quickly technology is changing what can happen to an image once it's shared online.
As a photographer, I'm trusted with some incredibly personal memories, and I've realized that responsibility doesn't necessarily end when I deliver your gallery. I can control how I photograph your family, how I edit your images, and how I deliver them to you. What I can't control is what happens to an image once I choose to share it publicly. With the continued growth of AI and how easily photographs can now be saved, altered, and manipulated, I've decided to make a small change with Joycatcher by Tanyeli.
Going forward, I'm going to be much more selective about publicly sharing recognizable photographs of younger children. This doesn't mean you'll never see them in my work, but I will be more intentional about what I choose to share and how identifiable a child is in an image. Nothing about how I photograph your family is changing. I'll still capture your babies and kiddos exactly as I always have, including their faces, personalities, expressions, and all of those little moments you want to remember. You'll still receive those photographs in your private gallery. They simply don't all need to become part of my public portfolio.
Instead, you may see more photographs from behind, little hands and feet, silhouettes, interactions with parents, partially obscured faces, softer side profiles, and other moments that still tell the story while keeping younger children less identifiable.
When it comes to teenagers and seniors, I'll continue sharing some of that work with appropriate permission. As kids get older, I also believe their own voice should increasingly be part of the decision about whether their photographs are shared publicly.
I'm not trying to tell parents or other photographers what they should or shouldn't post. This is simply a choice I've made for my own work and one that feels right as technology continues to change.
Your children do not need to be content for me to show that I'm good at my job.
Some photographs can simply belong to the people I created them for, and I think there's something pretty beautiful about that, too. 🤍
Your memories are yours first. Not every beautiful photograph needs to become part of my portfolio.
— Tanyeli
