When I was 21, I made the leap to turn a long-time hobby into a business. Photographs have always had a special part of my heart. I think it all began when I was younger and I found several shoe boxes of film photos of my parents falling in love, traveling and building a company in their twenties. I always knew my parents had whole other lives before me, but it’s funny looking through the pictures and seeing them as kids who have no idea what the years to come will bring. They had memories, feelings, experiences, and ideas that I will never know-a whole version of them that lived in those shoe boxes and only their memories. 

To me, these film pictures were fun, vintage, and some of them were brought to family gatherings to make fun of hairstyles and clothing from the hair 80s. To my parents, those pictures are everything. They were whole versions of themselves.  Every picture brought back feelings of who they were at that time, favorite songs, friends and aspirations of what they wanted. There were parties and friends they had long forgotten about, road-trips as newlyweds, my parents' iconic Christmas party they had for nearly 10 years before my brother and I were born and houses and apartments that hold special times in their life as young adults and new parents. For a second, I saw my Fifty-year-old dad take on the persona of a guy in his dorm who spent his entire tuition reimbursement check on a beatbox. 

I’ve grown up looking through these pictures and because of them, the understanding that life moves fast, and without photography, we inevitably forget events and places that were once the most important things to us. They are so much more than pictures–they are keepsakes. When I am old enough to be able to look back on pictures of my life when this began, I will think of how I moved to New York for the summer and was writing this in what would become my first shitty New York apartment. How scared I was when I started this business and how scared I was to graduate college. How my favorite artist was Hozier, how this was the first time I had ever left home and how I had literally no idea what the rest of my life was going to look like. And that’s the best part. To anyone else, they are just pictures, but to me they will forever hold that time of my life. And they are just for me. So yes, taking pictures, to me, is just a job that I love. I will never look back on those pictures and feel what they make you feel. The love, the hours upon hours studying for a degree, the dream business, the celebration, the time of life you were in. All of that is just for you. I have come to find that saved and shared memories really are the best gift I have ever given myself and that is what I am most excited to give to you!