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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

  • This is Lily…

    Lily turned three years old this month. One of the presents Lily got for her birthday was a whole bag of tootsie roll pops. And the month before that, she got a baby sister. I learned from hanging out with Lily that three is the perfect age to become a big sister… But I also…

  • My grandpa will always be my favorite Santa…

    Christmas has always been my grandfather’s favorite holiday and because of all the love he puts in to it year after year, he has made it our favorite holiday too. It is all about the traditions. Every year all 14 of us roll in from where ever we live and move in to their house…

  • Meet Sadie…

    A year ago, I photographed Sadie while she was in her mom’s belly, and I posted the photos here America’s Next Top Pregnant Model and here America’s Next Top Pregnant Model (Part 2: film.) This weekend, I went back to Santa Cruz and photographed Sadie, outside of her mom’s belly, in the same house where…

  • Blue Eyes, Bottoms and Bubbles…

    After photographing Vienna, I understand the evolutionary purpose of big blue eyes… There is no way you could eat your baby when it looks this cute. I also understand why bubble baths and babies are not such a good mix. I imagined cute baby flapping arms and bubbles floating in the air: happy family, happy…

  • Cute Baby Face…

    Claudia sent me a message saying she didn’t have any photos of her new little guy, so we decided to trade. She gets cute photos and Jude and I get photos for our stock business. So I did the family photos that they wanted and then we tried to think of baby topics that magazines…

  • Making an Exception for Tradition…

    This is my extended family. Every year we all meet at my Grandparents’ home in Carbondale, Illinois. This year for our family portrait, I wanted to emphasize how far we all travel in order to continue our Christmas family traditions. And to summarize for you: the total number of the miles traveled by all of…

  • I HATE THAT PHOTO…

    That’s the voicemail my mom left on my phone after she saw my last blog post with her photo on it. Her message made me laugh because she can be really funny, even when she isn’t trying to be. But she really wanted me to take that photo down… but… I didn’t. I didn’t take…

  • How to Work with Different Agendas…

    Parents want family portraits… Kids want to climb trees… And run… And explore… So I suggested swinging, and when the swinging stops… then we take the photos… And when the swinging wears off… then start hanging them upside down… And when they fall on the ground in excitement… Everyone falls on the ground in excitement……

  • Portraits I love of Souls I love…

  • America’s Next Top Pregnant Model (Part 2: Film)…

    I have been so busy over the last month that I haven’t had time to scan my Rolleiflex negatives from the last several photo shoots… and it had been so long that I almost started to think that maybe digital was good enough. Maybe I wouldn’t do film so much anymore, because digital is so…