Growing up I always dreamed of being an artist in some form or another, I like to believe my inner child is so so proud of me for making it a reality. Every person I get to work with is part of my story; the reason I get to be an artist day to day. For that, I’m so thankful you’re here.
about amanda
My love for photography started as a teenager alongside my triplet sister. We would spend time together going on photo adventures and developing work in the darkroom at our local community college. It was here I fell in love with the way a photo can make you feel.
I know your story matters because … When we got married in 2018 I realized how much the silly “you just had to be there” moments of a wedding day could be loved. How much photos of smiling parents, unruly friends, and the absolutely imperfectness of it all would wind up on the fridge. How much one single day can really mean. How much a portrait of you two so deeply in love can make you smile in the moments when life feels really hard.
Still to this day all I want is to create images that bring you back, make you feel, and tell a story worth remembering.
When we had our daughter in 2023 I realized even more how fleeting time is.
How no moment, no matter how mundane, ever happens twice. How you blink and it’s gone, and suddenly the photos feel like the only physical memory for something you’d gladly give absolutely anything to go back in time for. It’s all too ephemeral - it all moves to fast for it’s own good.
Above all, I’m a lover of feelings
I feel most myself when crying at the ocean, just because it feels GOOD. Or, Watching the birds fly home and imaging what it would be like to join them. Hearing my daughter laugh with her whole entire being.
Witnessing strangers close their eyes and lift their face to that sweet sweet Seattle springtime sun.
Basking in the way a sunrise after a night camping in the backcountry will always be poetic. The feeling of dancing on a stage full of lights, music, and nerves.
I want to feel it.
I want to know it.
