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Ars Longa, Vita Brevis

I’ve been photographing for 20 years and bring a mixture of work ethic and surrender to a shoot. We prepare as much as possible and get what the gods allow. They are charitable.

Although I stress as often as I can to stay loose and worry less, being in front of the camera is indeed worrisome. What will be represented? Will the investment pay off? Will I look hot? Important questions.

I’m curious lately about “being together — truly together — looking at one another” as I heard a photographer friend (and icon) say. Beyond the anxieties of presentation, a bare truth emerges between seer and the one being seen.

The truth of a family shoot is the love you share for and with your family. The narrative of struggle and joy that is embedded in our body and body language. “May I see your life?” is the question I enter a shoot with. “Can I show my love for you?” is the question that animates my work while I photograph.

Oh, the things I’ve seen! Stories that deserve to be told.

I photograph families because I believe it is the deepest and most mysterious mountain to mine. I left the art world convinced that the most important thing I could do with a camera was photograph parents with their kids, along with the female experience as bearer and architect of the family.

Photographs help us keep a life that is every year evolving, meeting the great challenge of remembering it all. “Ars longa, vita brevis” — life is short, art is long.