I am honored to be introducing Gratitude Sessions!
All sessions booked between now and the 30th of April 2020 will include an additional photo session for you to gift to an essential front line worker of your choice and their family.
Essential workers are sacrificing their time with their own families so that others can spend more time with theirs. I am grateful to be able to stay home, but I am also struggling like so many others. I have two sisters that are on the front line of this and I worry about them and their littles every day. I’m also struggling with having the privilege of staying home knowing others do not. I’m struggling with the fear of the uncertain financial future myself (and my business) are facing. I’m heartbroken that I can’t photograph the maternity sessions I had on the calendar, and even more heartbroken for those mamas who may have to deliver babies alone. For the grandparents who can’t meet their new grand-babies. I weep daily for the ones who have already left us, especially the ones that didn’t have anyone with them when they left this earth. It’s a trying time that every single person is affected by, and I believe all the more reason to give back. All the more reason to document this life.
I’m incredibly hopeful that we’ll get through this and come out stronger, together. We’re all learning to let things go, and also to expand and let love in. To ask for help. To grieve. While this gesture is not enough to repay the debt we owe to ALL of the essential workers and health care workers on the front line, I hope for it to be of some help.
If you’re not in a position to invest at the moment, but would love to be a part of giving back, please feel free to nominate an essential worker anyway that you’d like to see receive a complimentary family photo session. On April 30th, I will choose one of the nominated families to receive their free session.
I know it's a tough time right now for everyone. This will eventually pass and we will be gathered together again. Until then, in this time of grief and fear, please keep cheering each other on. Your love and resilience are powerful.
*All photo sessions to take place (of course!) when physical social distancing guidelines have been lifted. Donated sessions will receive a free session of their choice & 10 mounted gift prints. They have the option to purchase additional prints, but it is not required.
Thanks to Anastasia Creative for starting this initiative. If you’re a photographer interested in participating, please see her website.
