Nicole

I talk a lot about how my portrait sessions with sibling loss are always so tender for me, the loss of a sibling tragically and suddenly – is an experience no one really understands or talks about. It’s a very unique kind of loss. So often times, there are similarities – which of course, bring…

Travis

After living for 50 sun spins and counting, I have separated my lifetime into eras. At one point in time I worked a lot in music, my music industry era. Early 2000’s in Seattle were quite a time in music history, and someone who wrote about it well was a music journalist I met during…

Colette

I would like to introduce you to Colette. We met at the AFSP Out of the Darkness walk, where she was walking for her mother. I was immediately struck by her story – experiencing so many levels of grief over her lifetime and beyond – through the generations of family on both sides of her…

Angelina

Angie is one of the souls I was destined to meet from the ASFP walk this past year in Seattle. Its an event I always find people I connect deeply to. When you have lost someone this specific way, your heart looks franticly for someone that has felt that kind of pain. When you find…

Wanis

Bloom Note: At the end of this piece there is a photo of Jaylin’s body shrouded and adorned with flowers. The first time I met Wanis and his family I saw his eyes before I saw anything else. There was something familiar I saw in them as he walked up to the table at the…

Amanda & Alyssa

Amanda and Alyssa are sisters who lost their dad to suicide 17 years ago. They were 16 and 19 years old when he died. I can’t imagine what it’s like to lose a parent in such a traumatic way, at such a pivotal and important time of your life.  I enjoy having Faces of Fortitude…