I’ve been peering at my family through a viewfinder since I was fifteen. I loved photographing my many siblings as we were growing up, then my kindergarten students, and then my nieces and nephews.
Even though I loved photography for years, a real passion for making photos awoke in me when I had my first child fifteen years ago. I bought a new film camera before her arrival. I wanted to photograph all the little details of her unbelievably marvelous being. And I did - thirty-six exposures at time.
I now have five kids, a digital camera, hard drives full of images and not nearly enough prints. I love making photos of our daily life on a daily basis. On the podcast, I get to talk about all this with people who are as wild about family photography as I am.
My family lives in a little house on a dead end street in a lovely corner of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We have only one plant in the house, a Venus fly trap, and our porch usually looks like we’re getting ready to have a yard sale.