Elise has many gifts as a mother, but there is one, in particular, I have witnessed over and over. She effortlessly lets her boys be themselves in situations where so many of us would want to control and reign in our kids.
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“Not sure if it’s a mom thing or just an us thing, but I find that 99% of the time, I’m the one behind the camera, on the outside,” she said. “It feels luxurious to be in the moment, in the photo with the people I love most.” -Courtney
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I started reading The Color Monster, In My Heart, and My Many Colored Days with Rufus when he was very little. As he became more verbal, I would pause after each page or feeling and tell him of a time or a situation that made me feel that way and then ask him if he could think of a time. I really think that reading these books this way made space for us to talk about feelings, and name what he was thinking. Now he still loves those three books, but the Star Wars Search Your Feelings book brought the topic up in a category that he is super interested in. The Boy with Big Big Feelings is incredible and I love how it highlights that people with big feelings will also feel nostalgia and happiness in big overwhelming ways as well.
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A series of photographs and words about what it is like to be a mother during a pandemic, isolated at home. How we are feeling with so much change and so many fears. By photographing mothers through the window, I aimed to explore that feeling of being needed and wanted all the time as a mother, which is amplified during this pandemic. The physicality of the everyday with young kids. The two sides that each moment brings of being so loved and in love with your family, and wanting an escape. The mundane things that you have to do over and over. The beautiful things that have come from a forced togetherness.
Over the past 12 weeks I spoke with and interviewed both mothers I photographed and mothers who are a part of my community and life. The following is what they had to say:
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Well, it’s official! Photographers are allowed to resume work. I can’t wait to see the families I photograph year after year, and meet the new families and babies. Of course, our world looks nothing like it did at the beginning of the year. Covid-19 has changed so much, including family photography. I want to reassure anyone booking with me that I am going to be following safe practices for the protection of your family and mine.
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All around the country, and especially in the PNW, family photography sessions slow way down following the holidays. Babies keep being born, couples get engaged, and bellies swell and so family photography doesn’t completely stop in Seattle, but most photos that are not time sensitive are pushed back until summer or fall. I continue my fine art school photography, work on the back end of my business and wait for busy season. But is this truly necessary? I don’t think so. There are a few factors that tend to make family photos so seasonal and I would love to address them!
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