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Ordinary moments are never ordinary

A glance, a laugh, a pause. The smallest details often become the photographs we hold closest.

Ordinary moments are never ordinary
UNFILTERED · ARTICLE 003

A camera can preserve the moment everyone expected, but I am often drawn to what happens just beside it: the breath before the smile, the hand reaching out, the laughter that was never planned.

A photograph is an act of attention

Good photography begins with noticing. The technical choices matter, but they serve the feeling.

Keep the feeling, not only the pose

I want the people I photograph to see more than how they looked. I want them to remember how the room felt.

Beauty does not always announce itself. Sometimes it waits for someone to notice.

With love,
Susan