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As you have probably heard, women’s rights are under attack in Afghanistan and in Texas. Listening to the news makes me feel helpless. Helpless because I don’t have money to donate, and helpless because I live in a small crowded house and don’t have any room for refugees, although I have thought about trying to…
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Philando Castile was my George Floyd. In 2016 Philando Castile was pulled over for a traffic stop and then shot five times and killed in front of his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and her four year old child, after Castile told officer, Jeronimo Yanez, that he was carrying a licensed gun. My son was four years…
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Dear Friends and Family, Who would have imagined that in 2020, our lives to go from this… To this… So I wanted to check in with you, because we have been through a lot of life together. Over the past 15 years I have photographed close to 200 weddings, and at least twice as…
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One year ago I wanted change, but I didn’t know what. I wanted to be involved, but I didn’t know how. So I offered to take portraits, because that’s what I know how to do. But photographing removes me. I’m involved, but I’m on the outside. This was clear when I went to take this…
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On October 4th, I made a public declaration that I want to work exclusively with other people, nonprofits and businesses committed to doing work in social justice and/or environmental protection because I want my children to live in a world where people are treated equally and kindly, with clean oceans, thriving rainforests and healthy air…
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The deadly wildfires that have ravaged Northern California over the past week — killing dozens and forcing thousands to flee their homes are not out yet. At least 40 people have been confirmed dead in four counties. Hundreds are still missing. Statewide, an estimated 5,700 structures have been destroyed, including whole neighborhoods reduced to smoldering rubble. Nearly 100,000…
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Chloris Floral, Grace & Gather and I have been playing with flowers to create photos for Betany’s blog…. For our last photo shoot we invited the whole family to play… After the official photos were over, we absolutely had to take some cute family photos… And after we took cute family photos, we wanted to…
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Two years ago, I started this blog post: Welcome to the world baby, Alistair Henry Harris… We waited a long time for you to arrive. A long, long time. And you didn’t come how we expected… But you eventually came, all whopping 10.2lbs of you. Everyone was excited to meet you, but no one more…
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If I had been planning a photo shoot: Ally would have been wearing clothes; Harper would have been wearing clothes that didn’t clash with the couch; I would have cleared away the dirty laundry and Harper’s hair wouldn’t have been wet. But if I had planned a photo shoot… it wouldn’t have happened. Someone would have been grumpy…
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Once upon a time I believed gender was a social construct… but along came my two very adorable and completely truck, mud, ball and wrestling obsessed little boys. And I quickly learned that girls and boys are indeed different creatures, without any help from society. After four years of living in my boy centered world, I find myself standing next to my…
somewhere between a handshake and two kisses 