Some moments deserve more than a quick photo between everything else you’re doing.
You keep meaning to book something. But you’re tired in a way you can’t explain to anyone, nothing in your closet feels like you anymore, and the thought of figuring out what to wear and how to stand makes you want to lie down instead.
Meanwhile the bump is almost gone.
Almost every mom I talk to says some version of the same thing afterward: “I wish I had done it.” You only get this once, with this baby, and one day they will want to see how they were carried.
You never have to figure it out alone. That is the entire point of me.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
The photographs look like paintings, because they are built like paintings.
Painted backdrops, gowns from my own collection, fabric that moves, and light shaped the way a painter would shape it. You are photographed like art at the most transformed you will ever be, even if right now you don’t feel beautiful in anything you own. That part is my job, not yours.
And there is a film, if you want one.
Before I ever picked up a camera I spent years working as a professional video editor. So alongside your photographs I can make you sixty seconds with the real sound in it: your voice, the quiet of the room, the words you’d want your child to hear one day.
A photograph helps you remember how it looked. A film lets you hear how it felt.
And you leave with something you can hold.
Prints you can take out and look at. A box with your name on the lid. Something framed on a wall, where you will see it every day for twenty years. Not a folder of files that lives on a phone and never gets opened again.
These images are for the version of you that comes later.
THE MATERNITY SESSION
Two hours, usually three or four changes of clothes, in a studio in Hartford, or at your home when the light and the space are right. We decide which together beforehand.
Included:
- Pre-session planning and a moodboard built around you
- My full client closet: gowns and pieces in a wide range of sizes, so there is nothing to buy and nothing to guess at
- Painted backdrops, and light shaped the way a painter would shape it
- Complete posing and expression direction, start to finish
- An appointment about ten days later, where we look at your photographs together and you choose what you want to keep
Bring people. Your partner, your big kids, your own mother, your sister, the dog if the dog is family.
You are the centre of these photographs. The people who love you belong in them too.
HAIR AND MAKEUP
I’d recommend it, and not for the reason you think.
It isn’t about looking like someone else. It’s about the hour before, when someone else is doing the work and all you have to do is sit still. Most women arrive carrying the whole morning with them. This is the thing that puts it down.
$250, and I’ll arrange it. Tell me on the call.
WHAT THE DAY LOOKS LIKE
Two hours, usually three or four changes of clothes. You arrive and the gowns are already waiting, the ones we chose together beforehand: cream chiffon, blush pink, a cape that catches the air when you turn.
Then the light. I shape it the way a painter would, soft on your face and falling away into a dark backdrop, so the whole frame glows around you and the baby you’re carrying.
I show you every movement. Hands here. Chin a little down. Breathe out. Now look at me. You don’t have to know how to pose, and you don’t have to feel ready. That part is my job.
About ten days later we sit down with your photographs and you choose what you want to keep. Bring your partner.
ADD A FILM
Sixty to ninety seconds, with the real sound of the day in it. Your voice, the quiet of the room.
Films are chosen before your session, because they add a little filming time to the day. $800
Do I get the digital files?
Yes. Every collection comes with digital files: the smallest has ten images, five of them printed in a keepsake box from Italy. You choose them at the appointment, after you’ve seen everything.
When is the best time for a maternity session?
Between 27 and 34 weeks — you’re showing, baby has grown, and you’re still comfortable.
Do I need to bring anything to wear?
Not a thing. My studio wardrobe is curated and includes various sizes. If you have a piece that means something to you, bring it — we’ll find a way to use it.
I’m not photogenic and I don’t know how to pose
Almost everyone says this to me. You never have to know a single pose, and I provide everything you’ll wear. Most of my clients have never been photographed like this before.
Do you do classic posed newborn photography?
No, and that’s intentional. I photograph newborns lifestyle: in your arms, against your skin, in the rooms where you already live. No beanbags, no props, no posed shapes. The point is to capture how it actually felt to hold them in the first weeks.