Why newborn & family photography?

I can still remember the moment my son was placed on my chest for the first time after having an emergency C-section. His warm squidgy weight and the ‘realness’ of his clammy little body was the most reassuring thing I’d ever felt. It’s a surreal but visceral memory, that moment. I thought ‘oh, here you are!’ feeling as if I’d known him my whole life - as if he’d always existed somehow, in my soul.

How can anything prepare you for that kind of love? Like a piece of you now literally exists as another person? I felt like I finally belonged in my life, because he was here.

At last! A reason for being.

It’s Universal

Finally holding your tiny newborn baby in your arms is one of the most transformational moments of your life because your entire point of view changes, forever.

It’s so profound, it almost exceeds the word ‘love’ - but that’s what we call it.

Mother’s love.

Why wouldn’t you want to treat this sacred & life-changing event with utmost reverence and care, holding onto whatever you can of it? How could you not want to cherish each and every tiny detail before they change - as they will?

This is at the heart of my work: the desire to capture this utterly precious, painfully fleeting, and extraordinarily exquisite love for you, and to help you RELISH the wonderful privilege of becoming and being a parent.

My love for photography and wild open spaces comes from my parents, and growing up in the Namibian desert. My father was a keen photographer and geologist, and my mother an artist. We camped and lived out of a van while he carried out his geology work and my mother painted the wilderness in watercolours.