Hello! i’m Anna.
Lover of love, people, art, romance novels, learning, spending a large majority of my lifetime sitting in coffeeshops, cozy evenings with a candle lit, journaling, documenting, romanticizing life, and making the most of the mundane.
I started taking photos when I was 13 years old. I didn’t have many friends and was always a “fly on the wall’-type—i’ve found that’s ended up serving me well in my career. It was a bored summer and there were few art mediums I hadn’t tried my hand at yet, but I ultimately stumbled across our family photo camera and decided to try that out. This one stuck.
—Fast forward to 2022. I was still taking photos, though rarely, and focused largely on portrait work. I thought that was the only avenue for me (it was all i knew...I sometimes have a bad habit of getting stuck in my ways). But I didn’t feel that deep sense of purpose I so greatly craved. I knew I needed more meaning to my art if I were to pour my whole soul into it. So, I nearly gave up on photo to study psychology and pursue a career as a therapist (as a girl who is a deep feeler, mental health has been something i’ve grappled with my whole life and is something I am very passionate about. I still dream of further education in this field someday.) Throughout this time, I was also facing the consequences of being that aforementioned deep feeler in a world that is often not so kind, and my heart had been shattered in more ways than one. I was busy picking up my pieces.
That summer, a friend invited me to join her for a content day photographing couples. I had never really done this before. Not with such intention and presence. I dusted off my camera, nervously joined the rest of the group, and started shooting. It was connection, humanity, emotion, laughs, tears and professions of love with the sunset as a backdrop and the mountaintop chill in the air. As the sun went down and the final shoot came to an end, I vividly remember thinking to myself, “this is it. this is right. this is what i’m meant to be doing.” It was one of those rare moments where I had not a trace of self doubt, but rather a sense of peace that I was finally exactly where I was supposed to be. This was my purpose. This feeling persists each time I have the honor of capturing someone’s story.
It all made so much sense. This work fulfills every single part of my soul. From my love of nature (my solace) to my inherent need to create. My desire to highlight the best of life. My affinity for noticing and seeing people. My love of humans and connection. This work could not feel more aligned with me, and I leave each photoshoot with my heart more full than the last.
I have always been a girl who wore her heart on her sleeve—even when it made life harder for me. Something in me never wanted to let that soft part of myself harden for the hope that it would be worth it one day. This work is worth it. This work gives me hope. I’m so glad I held onto that softness, that quietness. The noticing. The feeling. The sensitivity I thought was my greatest burden. It is what allows me to create the art I do and see the things I see in you and your love.
I really do think love is the closest thing we can get to magic on this earth. It is so sacred. It is a privilege to get to witness your love and document it for all the magic it is. Thank you for trusting me with your softest parts,
and for allowing me to document these sacred moments of love and life.
