I know that I used to! From those funky school photos and the bad hair days to the photos of you right after giving birth... yeah, someone captured us in our "less than perfect" moments and left us believing that we are not photogenic.  And we've been avoiding the camera ever since, leaving behind little to no images of our glorious, vibrant self. 

Why I started creating portraits...

I started creating images of woman shortly after realizing that I had no photos of my beautiful mother from the time she was 27 until into her 60's, except for that one funny shot someone took of her as she slouched in a chair, exhausted from cooking Thanksgiving dinner. I explored the reasons why people, especially woman, avoid the camera and most of it came down to their perceived lack of physical perfection and the fact that they had never seen a really good photo of themselves.  But the funny part about this is that to a person who loves you, you are beautiful in spite of your hair, your weight, the size of your nose... because they see YOU, they see your spark.  And that's what I want to capture and translate into a portrait for you.