Hey there!

My name starts with ‘ch’ like cherry and rhymes with ‘panda’ …No ‘R’s or ‘L’s anywhere ;)

It’s a tricky name for most, and the short story is that I was raised by hippies. Lovely Appalachian hippies who found themselves in Atlanta in the early 80’s.

So I’m one of those rare Atlanta natives you hear about, I grew up in Lake Claire near Decatur. After alternative high school, I studied sociology and photojournalism in Boston and then after four very cold winters, I came right back home to Atlanta …Turns out living in the cold is a great way to figure out that you love the heat. In fact, a hot car in the summer is actually one of my favorite feelings.

I’m married to my best friend, and we've made a lovely life together in our old Atlanta bungalow. We have two really cool kids who are growing up too quickly, plus a Georgia brown dog who thinks she's a human in a dog costume.

​I'm an introvert who does not enjoy talking about herself, but here goes some more:

Community and social justice are essential goals that I have, and interesting light makes my heart sing. Stories make me happy, whether that’s in books, movies or podcasts. A lifelong baseball fan, one of my earliest memories was being in the top row at a very loud Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in 1991 when the Braves beat the Minnesota Twins in game 4 of the World Series to even it up.

But it’s family stories that inspire me the most creatively— Mothers. Fathers. Childhood. Connection. Chaos…I take the picture when I see aspects of family happening in interesting ways or in ways that make me feel something. When the light hits beautifully it is icing on the cake.

I’ve been a photographer nearly my whole life, and I’ve been documenting stories of childhood and parenthood for other families since 2010 with the guiding belief that every story deserves to be remembered authentically. You just can’t beat real life. I often find myself thinking, “You can’t make this stuff up.”

I want to give families stress free photo sessions so that together we can make art out of life. Even better if I get to work with a family over the years to tell their ongoing ever-changing family story.