Category Archives: Portraits

As Luck Would Have It

I always feel so lucky and surprised to meet and grow to know the people that I meet. And Jackson, Suzanna, and Adam are no exception. We met first when I photographed Jackson last November as a chubby, twinkle-eyed little acorn that scooted around on his butt and screamed with delight at the sight of […]

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Uncontrolled Perfection

If your family is anything like mine, it is tightly knit, spread and spiderwebbed like a tapestry, knotted, beautiful, and warm, with soft threads from constant use. Also, it is full of stains from grubby fingers and flour dust from making homemade pierogis. I am one of 24 first cousins (all but two of them […]

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Dana + Jamil

Dana and Jamil were married last month out in New Jersey, from where each of them hails. Sometimes it is funny to imagine two people – lives disparate, unmet, going about the business that leads them to grow separately into the same kind of good and kind person, caring about others, learning things, turning to social […]

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Beanzo

At Brooklyn Bridge Park on one of the first warm days this spring, I photographed the Dary Family, Jen, Chris, and Noah. Oh, Bean. What a light-filled little lad! You are sunshine in peanut form. Noah was the first chitlin that I nannied for after I moved to Brooklyn, and from five months to 1.5 […]

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Dana and Jamil

Dana is someone whose laughter is an infectious outburst of raucous zeal, whose heart is kind and wide and enthusiastic, whose curls and life are everywhere. Jamil is her perfect foil, sending serious, simmering talks into boiling roiling giggles, centering her in his big embrace. The three of us went up to the High Line […]

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