Every frame holds something real.
You don't have to be ready. The good photographs usually arrive in the in-between - while someone is laughing at a joke you missed, while a child leans into a shoulder without being asked. I wait for those. What you'll keep is not a pose. It's the afternoon, the light, the way it actually felt to be together.
The studio
A camera is only ever an excuse to pay closer attention.
I work quietly. No long shot lists, no forced smiles held a beat too long. Mostly I follow you, and we talk, and somewhere in there the afternoon becomes the photographs. You'll forget the camera is there. That's usually when I find the frame worth keeping.
More about the studioWe forgot we were being photographed. Then we saw the photographs, and there we were. The Marlowe family
She caught the exact way my father looks at my mother. I didn't know anyone could keep that. Elena R.
It felt like an afternoon with a friend who happened to have a camera. The Okonkwo family