the essays

art + Entrails

Eat What You Want to Shit | On Nightmares and Consumption

The quality of your output is reflected in what you consume. Fast often and eat only what you want to shit.

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 […]

Alexa + Kieran | The Valley Weddings | Alberta Intimate Wedding Photographer

If wedding photographers are supposed to have emotional boundaries, I’m doing it wrong. I fought tears multiple times throughout the day – asking myself “you barely know these people. why are you crying?” But I don’t have to know them to feel the palpable longing between them. To witness love and devotion as genuine as […]