My creative career began behind a camera.

My grandfather was a photographer. I have many memories of Pappy’s camera at holidays, on camping trips, and during all of the ordinary moments that he knew we would want to remember one day. After he passed away in 2014, photography was something that helped me feel connected to him and it became my creative outlet. I started photographing my little sister in the backyard and created self portraits with thrifted costumes. That grew into doing shoots for family friends at age 15. At 16, I was hired to photograph the city of Pittsburgh for a memoir written by author and poet Sam Hazo, The Pittsburgh That Stays Within You. You can still buy the book on Amazon here. :)

I thought I was going to be a full-time photographer for my career and dedicated my time to shooting senior portraits, family sessions, and weddings until 2020. I shifted gears for a few reasons — for one, I was burnt out. Photography stopped being something I loved to do and became something I felt like I had to do because everyone else wanted me to do it. Covid didn’t help either. It was around this time when I fell in love with branding and design, so I decided to focus my career in that direction.

It took me a few years to finally want to pick my camera back up again. I am finally reconnecting with the passion that I felt when I was four years old taking my first picture of my grandfather with the Canon Powershot A460 that he had given me. I am now booking select shoots upon availability and am excited to put my work back on my website.