Category Archives: Teens
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Winning isn’t everything and I have learned a whole heck of a lot more from failures than successes in photography, but it sure does feel good to be recognized. For years, I have followed Kirsten Lewis Bethman and Jenna Shouldice as leaders in the genre of documentary family photography, two women who have raised the…
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As July is quickly coming to a close, summer feels like it’s flying by in a blink, but we’ve also packed an incredible amount of life into the past few weeks. Life can be a wild ride, but none wilder than summers spent shuffling back and forth to baseball, beach weekends with family, birthday celebrations,…