photography, films, and doula support
THAT LIFE YOU'RE MAKING? IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
You deserve to SEE that.
Sometimes your life is everything you plan, and sometimes, it's nothing you could have imagined. But even in all the unpredictability, you stand strong and soft, feeling every bit of it. The smiles and the laughter, the tears and the temper tantrums, the celebrations and the sorrows -- they are your love story. And YOU are the story I tell.
supporting you in your journey
witnessing you
in Your love story
witnessing you
in Your love story
witnessing you
in Your love story
narrative films & photography about the life you're creating
THAT LIFE YOU'RE MAKING? IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
You deserve to SEE that.
Sometimes your life is everything you plan, and sometimes, it's nothing you could have imagined. But even in all the unpredictability, you stand strong and soft, feeling every bit of it. The smiles and the laughter, the tears and the temper tantrums, the celebrations and the sorrows -- they are your love story. And YOU are the story I tell.
supporting you in your journey
the
experience
BIRTH
Birth isn't the end of you. Your love story began long before your matrescence, and your birth is only the foundation of the passion you will carry into everything beyond.
Your baby is everything to you, but you are more than your baby. You are fire, you are softness, you are tender, you are steel. Your birth will be exquisite, and your path through it will exquisite too. There's so much more to record than beautiful nurseries and baby booties.
While birth is what first drew me to photography, it is just the beginning. The power and love you experience in birth keeps showing up throughout your parenting journey.
Real life is more than a dressed up, "say cheese" portrait session. It is both amazing and arduous. It goes too fast and not fast enough. I'm here so you can hold onto every part of your story, even the ones that you silently wish away.
experience
LIFE
the
Your photography is really good therapy
new mother.
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for the
— rachel, soldier and triathlete
Your photos were in
processing my delivery and to show me the strong woman
so crucial
that I was.
— Julie, labor and delivery nurse
photographer, filmmaker, doula
meet Heidi
My own births taught me that I was not alone; now I'm here to show you that we're all in this together -- it may be hard, but it is beautiful.
The birth room is filled to the brim with a vibrancy that grabs me by the throat every single time. Empathy is my superpower: I am fully present with you, breathing through the surges, feeling what you feel so that I can bring your energy, your power, your FIRE into the images and films we create together.
My years of experience telling birth stories, my passion for this work, and my reverence for your space means that at all times you are seen as your authentic self ; you are held in your experience, come what may ; and when all is said and done, you will have your story, as it truly was.
the story of malachi
featured journey film
56
planned out-of-hospital births
92
Times I cried
92
births
13
years telling stories
23
water births
What is real
is always worth
What is real is always worth
You never dreamed how intense and hard and beautiful it would all be. Here. Hold onto your moments.
remembering
