the essays

art + Entrails

Protected: The Passion of Bane | Reclaiming What was Lost through Dreamwork in The Image of My Son

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A New Form | Central Alberta Motherhood Photographer

Bringing a new baby into an established family dynamic is exciting but always a bit risky; it might change everything we know to be true.

The Beginning of the End | Alberta In Home Motherhood Session

I remembered how much I love working with mothers and their kids, but I also felt a strange unease. Something has shifted and I no longer want to shoot with the formula that I think plagues commercial family photography in central Alberta.

Dreamwork + Basement Flooding

A Hot and Heavy Review of James Hillman’s The Dream and the Underworld

The Family Archive

Printing a Year of Pictures

What if I just do this for myself?

I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I don’t know what the hell I’m doing anymore.

Memory Keeping Artifacts of a Photographer Mother

I don’t like Canola and I don’t care for yellow, but that’s what our field is full of every other year.

Release + Let Go: Unraveling in Banff Alberta

I don’t need a roadmap to my own soul

Cue Emotional Deconstruction

I’m learning film. What a humbling experience.

A Little Bit of Mystery | Red Deer Alberta Branding Photographer

I had the feeling as I planned the session that I should add elements of mystery. Then she told me she was a 2/5 emotional manifestor and thought maybe some mysterious elements would be nice. As she reached down to touch a white cockle, I noted that her hands looked a lot like mine. We […]