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Hi, I'm Suzy, a photographer, mentor and mom of 3. I'm so glad you're here.

The first snow fall of the year is such a magical thing.  Often it’s that real soft, light snow – the kind that when you look up into the sky and watch it fall, if you try to focus on just one snowflake at a time it looks like you’re moving through a sea of stars in the universe (or so I always have thought. Try it next time, you’ll see what I mean).  Anyway, this year’s first snow couldn’t have come at a better time as I had planned to photograph two of my favorite boys to celebrate Drew’s third birthday as well as Spencer hitting his 6 month mark…

… and from one season to the next, Spencer is still just as cute and smiley as ever! :o)

Hi, I'm Suzy, a photographer, mentor and mom of 3. I'm so glad you're here.

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For nearly two decades, I’ve worked with individuals and families who understand the value of time. And the importance of preserving it well.

My work centers on creating living archives: carefully composed records of a life as it’s being lived. Not performances. Not surface moments. But the relationships, environments, and details that define a legacy.

I approach each commission with the eye of an artist and the discipline of a documentarian. Listening closely. Observing deeply. Shaping work that is meant to endure. Crafted on film, finished as heirloom objects, and designed to be held in your hands, lived with in the home, and passed down in your private family vault. 

This is not photography for the present moment.

It is art made in service of memory, history, and the generations that follow.

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