About
I am a photographer, documentarian, University of Oregon clinical psychology PhD student, writer and painter. For the past six years, I have worked on a variety of documentary projects from intimate portraits of family members, a written piece about the implosion of a church in Philadelphia, to international work with non-profits. I hope to continue to pursue documentary work while in graduate school and beyond. This blog is a small outlet for the things I care deeply about.
These things include :
My family (and particularly my fiance Eli, adorable niece Annabel, Godson Isaac, and Goddaughter Andrea.)
The Lewis Hine Documentary Fellowship at Duke. I was a fellow from 2007-2008. This fellowship granted me a year to work on a documentary project about teen pregnancy and parenthood. It also gave me the time and inspiration to begin this website.
Very young and quite old first time parents. Having worked with adolescent parents, and now starting my PhD and being surrounded by women who have chosen to delay motherhood, I am fascinated by the decision to begin a family. As the economic gap in America widens, so has the reproductive gap. I think it is just as bizarre for women to be pushing parenthood into their late 30s and early 40s as it is for women in America to decide to become adolescent parents. It is a difficult era for women to raise children and I just want to find ways to understand these decisions as best I can.
Small stories that I would like to tell.
