I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I don’t know what the hell I’m doing anymore. This medium has cracked me open, and now I’m laying on the pavement, my yolk pooling in yellow waiting to permeate the hard surface. I’m not sure I’ll ever get in. But I no longer think […]

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What if I just do this for myself? | Alberta Fine Art Motherhood Photographer

I’m learning film. Cue emotional deconstruction. What a humbling experience. The question I keep asking myself is, “am I a good photographer? or just a decent editor?”, but the question is moot – both have the same answer. I didn’t start photography with the intention of making it a job. I started with the intention […]

education, storytelling

Cue Emotional Deconstruction | Alberta Fine Art Photographer

Graduation is an initiation ritual. We move from one phase of life into the next, side by side with peers, supported by our elders. We alchemize the story of childhood into one of autonomy and self-reliance, taking on an adult perspective yet in a still very childlike form. A space of transition; no longer a […]

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Transmutation, Alchemy, Evolution | Alberta Fine Art Photographer

“I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free,” Catherine Earnshaw laments in Wuthering Heights. I know this feeling well. I watch my daughter run around picking wildflowers, the wind throwing her long hair into her face as she marvels at the simple magic of untamed plants and I think, how […]

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Becoming a Child Again | Red Deer Portrait Photographer