I didn’t choose this work. It revealed itself to me.
Through loss. Through resilience. Through learning how fragile visibility truly is.
There is a difference between looking at someone and truly seeing them.
I learned that difference early. At age eleven, I lost vision in my left eye after a traumatic accident. In an instant, something most people never think about became uncertain. Seeing was no longer automatic. It was no longer guaranteed. It became something I understood differently.
Something I felt.
Something I honored.
Photography entered my life not as a career plan, but as a way of paying attention. A way of preserving what could not be promised to last forever. For over fifteen years, I’ve stood behind the camera documenting women through the most meaningful chapters of their lives. Their businesses. Their families. Their reinventions. Their quiet and extraordinary arrivals into themselves, but somewhere along the way, I realized something deeper.
I was witnessing everyone else… while quietly disappearing from my own story.
After returning home from photographing a destination wedding, I woke up without vision in my left eye. The pressure from the flight had caused multiple retinal detachments. Emergency surgery restored my vision to what it had been before, but my relationship with time was forever changed.
The illusion of “later” disappeared.
Then, not long after, my body spoke again. I began experiencing neurological symptoms, memory loss, and disruptions I couldn’t explain. After months of advocating for answers, an MRI revealed a brain tumor. Non-cancerous, but life-altering. Still monitored. Still part of my reality.
In 2022, everything shifted again.
These experiences stripped away the idea that visibility is something we can wait for. They clarified something I now know without question:
Presence is not guaranteed.
Memory is not guaranteed.
Time is not guaranteed.
And being seen (truly seen) is not a luxury, it’s a necessity.
My work today is not about photography.
It is about witnessing. It is about creating space for women to see themselves clearly, often for the first time in years. Because when a woman sees herself clearly, something settles inside her. She stops questioning her worth, negotiating her presence and waiting for permission to exist fully inside her life.
She moves differently.
She leads differently.
She becomes undeniable.
I don’t create images to manufacture identity. I create images that reflect truth.
Images that hold memory.
Images that hold presence.
Images that say: You were here.
Over the past fifteen years, my work has evolved…
I’ve become a creative director, community builder, and space holder for women stepping into new seasons of power, leadership, and visibility. I am the founder of Women of The OC, a thriving community built to bring women together through connection, storytelling, and shared expansion.
I host transformational events, lead visibility experiences, and create spaces where women remember who they are. Not through performance, but through presence. And this work will continue to evolve, just as I continue to evolve. Because I am not interested in documenting perfection. I am interested in documenting truth.
I believe visibility changes everything.
Not performative visibility. Not curated visibility. Embodied visibility. The kind that allows a woman to see herself clearly and recognize the power she already holds. The kind that creates legacy, not just in accomplishments, but in presence. Because long after moments pass, images remain.
Proof that you existed.
Proof that you lived fully.
Proof that you were here.
I am here as someone still becoming.
Still learning.
Still healing.
Still arriving into new versions of myself.
And that is exactly why I do this work the way I do. Because I understand what it means to evolve while carrying responsibility. To rebuild while continuing to lead and show up while still finding your footing. I understand what it means to be human inside your strength and I know how powerful it is to be witnessed there.
I am not here as someone who has everything figured out.
If you are here, it is likely because something in you is shifting. Something’s expanding and asking to be seen. You do not need to become someone else. You only need to allow yourself to be witnessed as you are and I would be honored to hold that space for you.