FAQs
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
I want to learn as much as I can about your personality and your expectations by some initial emails and/or texts back and forth. But I also want to sit down face-to-face so we have some familiarity and a level of mutual understanding before the shoot begins. This can be accomplished by just coming early the day of the shoot or it can be done by sitting down for coffee a few weeks or days in advance, whatever you're comfortable with.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I attended Ohio University and majored in photo communication. I spent four years doing photography and journalism coursework while also shooting and editing for the daily student newspaper, The Post. During summers I interned as a photographer at newspapers in Maryland and Colorado. After graduating I got a staff photo position at the Connecticut Post. I most recently spent many years as the photo editor for a Catholic newspaper in Rochester, N.Y. where I shot and edited photos and videos for many years, while also working on the side as a family, portrait and event photographer. I moved to Cleveland with my family in 2016 and have been working to build my freelance business since then.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
I built a pinhole camera during a photography class in high school and was just fascinated with the resulting photos. I also really enjoyed spending time in the darkroom and watching the prints materialize as I worked. I brought this love of the process and resulting images to college with me and that's where I started photographing people and fell in love with storytelling pictures that really illuminated the personalities of the people I met and photographed.