I got a PhD in parenting before becoming a professional family and wedding photographer. I studied hundreds of mothers and their babies, training myself to notice tiny changes in human expression at the moment-to-moment level. I loved studying people, but I didn't want to reduce them to bits of data in spreadsheets, thereby erasing their differences. I wanted to shine a light on all those things which made people and their interactions unique. Documentary photography gave me a way to do that. Photographers are people-watchers at heart, and I am no exception. At a wedding, my favourite part is the dancing and my photography associate sometimes has to drag me away when the hour strikes.
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