epiphany

my photography epiphany/decision today is simple: follow fewer rules, or no rules.

the act of thanks giving

today was a day i spent giving thanks in many ways. here are a few of my big gratitudes:

- my loving, supportive, inspiring, gifted, and caring parents
- my amazing fiancee josh and our upcoming wedding
- the abundance of food we have on a daily basis and the luxury of choosing what we eat
- a year of great assignments
- a fantastic big warm bed to sleep in and a home to live in
- new colleagues and friends
- dear old colleagues and friends
- a life of plenty
- hot showers
- my grandmother's new hearing aids
- naps
- wonderful and faithful clients
- still getting to do what i love for a living

sentimental? perhaps, but all very true. i hope you had a lovely holiday and find things to be grateful for every day.

the end of an era

it is officially winter. i have taken all 20 of our tomato plants and moved their much-loved remains into the compost. i couldn't let the hibernation begin without a small ode to our prolific plants and their gorgeous root systems.

tons of new work!

i've just updated my website with lots of new work from my last 3 shoots. enjoy!

check me out on the livebooks blog!

check me out on the livebooks blog. it's a fun post titled "it's personal" which focuses on the interaction of personal and commercial work and specifically highlights my new polaroid project. a big thank you miki johnson for being interested in my work and for putting up such a great post with lots of photos!

i'm in PDN's emerging photographer magazine

check out the story i was interviewed for in PDN's emerging photographer magazine! the magazine was distributed at photo expo in NYC so unfortunately i didn't get a hard copy but the online version looks pretty cool too!

i'm an international girl

i finally have copies of newsweek japan and psychologies italia in my hot little hands! i'll be posting scans of my pages in the coming days. also look out for an upcoming post on the awesome iphone story that american photo magazine has out this month co-featuring me.

photographer of the day: jodi beiber

jodi beiber's new project real beauty is amazing. real south african women, no retouching whatsoever, a rare treat. jodi goes beyond what we often see: they involve the the subject's perception "fantasy" (via their pose) in conjunction with the pure reality of retouching-free presentation . go check it out and make sure you read the text at the end of the series of photos. the rest of jodi's work is wonderful too so take a moment to look around her site.

european syndication with o'gorman visual research

i'm very excited to announce that i'm being archive represented and syndicated in europe by daniel o'gorman visual research. daniel has great taste and syndicates a handful of extremely talented photographers whose company i am really flattered to be keeping. please don't hesitate to ask about syndication/reuse of any of my images by contacting me directly for usa usage or daniel for european syndication.

new portfolio work

i have 3 personal shoots scheduled in the next 10 days - i'm really excited to add new work to my book!