hello!
I'm Paige. I am wife to Drew (married 9 years), and mama to Nash (age 8) and Lux (5).
I am a photographer here in this space, but I'm also a lover of creativity in all its forms.
I love iced coffee, baking, making music, decorating spaces, and making things with my hands (pottery, earrings, crochet, etc).
My style is modern, a little bit minimal, a little bit boho, if all those things can exist together. I love neutral colors, organic textures, and things that feel laid back and down to earth.
My Family
I grew up loving photography -- as much as you can love taking photos with disposable film cameras from the Walmart photo center :)
I didn’t own a “real” camera until college, when I invested in a starter film SLR and borrowed some lenses from my dad. I fell in love with shooting anything and everything -- basically portraits of my roommates and the random trappings of college dorm life.
After a year or two of sharing my images on Facebook, I started getting requests to photograph people -- other people! For actual money! So for the rest of my time in college and graduate school, I learned a ton by shooting weddings, senior portraits, and the occasional family session.
After moving to Richmond, VA in 2011, I took a long break from photography.
My camera was collecting dust in the back of my closet until I got married and started having babies of my own.
Something about motherhood made me want to re-engage with photography as an artistic pursuit. Plus, I just wanted to capture these early years with my children with more than just a slew of iPhone images!
Since spring of 2017, I’ve spent a lot of time photographing my own family and lots of other families and individuals in the Richmond area. I’m passionate about lifestyle photography -- the relaxed, down-to-earth way of capturing folks as they are, where they are -- and documentary photography -- telling real stories through images of life as it truly is.
I’m genuinely so excited to get to know you through the magic of photography and to work together making art out of everyday life.
HOW I GOT STARTED
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When I was growing up, every time I went to my grandmothers house, I would look through her photo albums. Some of them were of me as baby, some were my immediate family, and some were relatives who passed away long before I came on the scene.
When I was in college, my mom died, and I'm sure she had tons of photos living on her computer hard drive, but I didn’t look for or keep a single one. What I did keep was the scrapbook she made for me with her own hands, the photos she put there and the words she wrote to me in it. That will be what I show my children to tell them about the grandmother they didn’t get to meet, but who would have loved them so much.
I believe in the power of family stories to remind us where we came from, and to be the heirloom we pass down to our children and grandchildren
It’s not just about making pretty pictures to go on your Christmas card or to put in an Instagram post. It’s about capturing the essence of your family in this season. The expressions, the voices, the mannerisms and the connection you have with each other.
Capturing those real life, every day sorts of moments can help you see your fam from the outside looking in, which is something we all need from time to time. I see it as my job to give you a fresh perspective on motherhood/fatherhood/family life for those times when the day to day gets a little boring, hard, or both.
I'm honored to be a part of documenting the childhood you’re creating right now for you kids and the little bit of magic, humor, and connection hidden in the ordinary stuff of family life.
