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Paige Green is a documentary and portrait photographer, whose storytelling approach to photography frequently addresses issues involving agriculture, land use, and food. Her work is featured in nine books and has been published in Glamour, National Geographic Traveler, New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ, Country Living, House Beautiful, and Culture. Paige lives in Petaluma, CA with a house full of boys.

Category: family

  • Wait for it…

    Seana first contacted me on November 10th about family photos. We had three or four scheduled dates to meet but each time it just didn’t work out… thanks to conflicting holiday schedules, bad weather, the flu, and even an epic battle with poison oak. But we didn’t give up. We waited until schedules calmed down,…

  • No warm-up necessary this year…

    This was the third year in a row that I photographed Jasmine and her parents… …which, I learned, makes for a very comfortable and very action-packed photo shoot. No warm-up time necessary this year, Little Miss Jasmine was ready to go… And so was I… after spending 72 continuous hours working on getting our new…

  • it is all about people…

    I may photograph food, products, events, and flowers… but for me, it is all about the people. So I get excited when family portrait season comes around and families invite me in to their homes for an hour, or even better, for an afternoon, and I get to play… I enjoy it so much that…

  • This is what’s going on at our house these days…

    It has been awhile since my last post, so I thought I’d at least share what we are working on… In addition to learning how to grab our toes, roll-over, fly, drool, and laugh… we are also working on my new website. Because now that we have this parenting thing figured out (as demonstrated in…

  • One Street, Four Families and Me…

    Last year I was lucky to photograph this cute family… And that cute family showed their photos to this cute family… And that cute family showed their photos to this cute family… And to this cute family… And because all of these cute families live on the same cute street in the East Bay, this…

  • Photography Lessons: by lil’ Margaux…

    (click on the photo for a closer look) A year ago in May, I received this email from Abby: Paige – we love your work! It would be awesome to have you document lil’ Margaux. We were thinking of doing three short photo sessions spaced out through the year. We want to get some nice…

  • In my perfect world…

    …I would live on a street where all of my best friends lived in the houses around me… …and we would get to do all of this… … all of the time. But until my wish comes true… …I am so grateful for airplanes that bring me to my favorite people who live too far…

  • For all the good dads I know…

    Thank you.    

  • Day One is Today…

    This is Elizabeth. Last month Elizabeth found out that she has advanced breast cancer. At 10:30am this morning Elizabeth received her first treatment of chemotherapy. Today, she said, she felt sad. But she says, this is not war, this is just something that happened and she will live through this. Because with a six-year old…

  • Watch out World, here comes Benjamin Devlin Cobra Russell…

    He’s a little man… with a big name… but with that cute smile… those blue eyes… and these two amazing parents… I think he’ll be up for the challenge.