Community Image Gallery

EXHIBIT VOL. 3

 EXHIBITING PHOTOGRAPHERS

Agueda Sanfiz, Ahna Tessler, Aiko Austin, Allexandra Torres, Allyson Klein, Ana Backhaus, Azure Mahara, Barbara Puchta, Christina Hardcastle, Emma Collins, Gretchen Yost, Ina Esch, Iratxe Alvarez, Jami Hart, Jessica Uhler, Joanna Śmieja, Julia Kojeder, Kate Lovering, Kristi Tamcsin, Kyra Barger, Laura Beth Davidson, Lauren Gayeski, Lavinia Nitu, Lisa Hu Chen, Maggie Devereux, Marie-Pierre Castonguay, Marie O'Mahony, Marta Szyszka, Melissa Read Healy, Mercedes Armella, Anna Meyer-Kahlen, Michelle Molnár, Miriam Jave, Nadja Arold, Nicole LaPointe, Petra Eyre, Rebecca Lewis, Salonee Jain, Sarah Chavez, Shirley Sullivan, Tiffany Luong.

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Splashes of Joy - Agueda Sanfiz

Agueda is a Spanish arts administrator and documentary family photographer living in Tampa, USA. She uses the camera as an intermediary with the world and a therapist to look inside and out. Documenting families helps her explore the beautiful complexities of what it means to raise children in present times. Her signature images reflect on the paradox of reducing intense parental experiences to awkwardly funny moments frozen in time. Her work is filled with color, joy, and humor.

The Groom - Ahna Tessler

Ahna Tessler is a comedian turned photographer living in New York City.... but just recently made the move to NJ to make more space for her, her husband and their growing 10-year-old twins. Her first experience as a photographer began on the other side of the camera when her father would take photos of her sisters and her. Although he is a psychiatrist, he is a photographer at heart. When her twins were born, she was forced to put comedy and screenwriting aside, as it’s kind of hard to work the stand-up circuit and pen a multi-million dollar Hollywood blockbuster hit movie when you’ve got two human parasites clinging to your soul and body 95% of the time:) Her husband had a camera lying around, so she picked it up and it apparently activated some latent gene in her DNA and she somehow found time (in between double breast feeding sessions) to become obsessed with photography.

Photography has given her the opportunity to explore the beauty, humor and grit of human interaction on a new stage… the family. Her style can be best described as “documentary” in the sense that she aims to capture her clients within the context of authentic family life.  No one wants fake smiles and stiff poses.  (If you do, I think there’s still a Sears left somewhere on Long Island.) Her number one goal is to find story in her photos.

The Lion Came to School - Aiko Austin

Aiko Austin is a Japanese photographer based in New York. Born in Tokyo, she spent her childhood years in Italy and studied in the U.S. for college. She worked in journalism and finance before pursuing photography full time. It was during the COVID pandemic when she began documenting the everyday life of her family as a personal project, and since then she has been passionate about creating compelling documentary images that tell a story. She continues to create photographs because she believes they have a life of their own, allowing others to interpret the world as she sees it.

Untitled - Allexandra Torres

Allexandra Torres is a California based commercial documentary photographer using introspection and observation to notice and tell the stories of unposed joy. Often capturing a child-like nostalgia and the audacity to be weird, quirky, or funny, Allexandra’s photos undo stereotypes and remind us that everywhere in life there is joy, love, humor, and more than what’s on the surface. Using photography, Allexandra hopes to inspire others to appreciate each other and seek happiness from being who they truly are and living in their own skin and all it’s been through.

A Swingset For Everyone - Allyson Klein

Hello. Allyson Klein. Nature lover. Traveler. Observer. Mother. Photographer. Late bloomer. An American who calls Belfast home. Prior to photography, Allyson worked as an award-winning graphic designer in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. Fast forward twenty years, four countries, two children and countless hours spent wandering down the path less traveled with a camera in hand, Allyson discovered she connected deeply to the documentary genre. Whether film, digital or smartphone, you can always find her stopped on the side of the road to catch great light or to capture her kids doing every day yet memorable things. She finds beauty in the everyday moments. Moments filled with humour and joy, tension and fragility, sadness and pain. It’s all part of life and it all deserves to be remembered.

Four Legged Friends And Their People Parents - Allyson Klein

Hello. Allyson Klein. Nature lover. Traveler. Observer. Mother. Photographer. Late bloomer. An American who calls Belfast home. Prior to photography, Allyson worked as an award-winning graphic designer in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. Fast forward twenty years, four countries, two children and countless hours spent wandering down the path less traveled with a camera in hand, Allyson discovered she connected deeply to the documentary genre. Whether film, digital or smartphone, you can always find her stopped on the side of the road to catch great light or to capture her kids doing every day yet memorable things. She finds beauty in the everyday moments. Moments filled with humour and joy, tension and fragility, sadness and pain. It’s all part of life and it all deserves to be remembered.

Family Reunion - Ana Backhaus

Ana Backhaus is a Documentary Family Photographer, born in Lisbon and based in Dubai for almost for 10 years.

Her background is architecture, but she spent over eight years in the skies travelling around the world and working as a Flight Attendant.

Her photography journey started in 2015 but wasn’t until 2020 that she opened her business as full-time photographer.

Due to all her experiences Ana is passionate for travelling, appreciates cultural diversity, and genuinely loves to connect with new people and know about their stories.

Being an emotional person, Ana brings that to everything she does, she wants to evoke a reaction through her photographs and that’s the personality of her work.

A Community Of Love - Azure Mahara

Azure Mahara is a professional photographer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She loves taking documentary images that spark familiarity and mystery. While Azure has won awards, appeared in magazines, and received recognition from art museums and National Geographic, her favorite accomplishment is managing life with 4 kids under the age of 8 all while continuing to grow as an artist. You can find her work at azuremahara.com.

A Day In The Park - Barbara Puchta

The only clear memories Barbara has of her childhood are found in photographs. The rest are at best faded and blurred, and at worst gone forever.

Barbara grew up in Germany as an only child and now has three children of her own. She has been fascinated by photography from the moment she first watched a Polaroid develop like magic before her eyes.

She photographs family relationships and the impact of early experiences on our lives.

Whenever she needs her space, she retreats behind her camera.

She still collects old pictures of her family and of strangers and imagines the lives of this depicted.

Barbara mentors emerging documentary family photographers and teaches several mentoring programs. Her photographs have received awards from Documentary Family Awards, Lensculture, This is Reportage Family and Fearless Family Photographers, among others.

She is am member of DFP documentary family photographers and co-founder of DFF dokumentarische Familienfotografen.

Different Generations, Same Kitchen - Barbara Puchta

The only clear memories Barbara has of her childhood are found in photographs. The rest are at best faded and blurred, and at worst gone forever.

Barbara grew up in Germany as an only child and now has three children of her own. She has been fascinated by photography from the moment she first watched a Polaroid develop like magic before her eyes.

She photographs family relationships and the impact of early experiences on our lives.

Whenever she needs her space, she retreats behind her camera.

She still collects old pictures of her family and of strangers and imagines the lives of this depicted.

Barbara mentors emerging documentary family photographers and teaches several mentoring programs. Her photographs have received awards from Documentary Family Awards, Lensculture, This is Reportage Family and Fearless Family Photographers, among others.

She is am member of DFP documentary family photographers and co-founder of DFF dokumentarische Familienfotografen.

Love Is All Around - Christina Hardcastle

Christina Hardcastle is a documentary photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. Formerly a petroleum engineer in the US, she started photographing families and weddings in 2012. She fell in love with documentary photography when she realized she was drawn to the honest, imperfect moments that truly show the essence of family. Christina then transitioned to work as a full-time photographer upon moving to Australia in 2016. She loves traveling and any kind of experiential adventure. She currently lives with her husband, her amusing two-year-old daughter, and two big dogs who also behave like toddlers.

Sleepover - Emma Collins

Emma Collins, St. Albans, UK. Emma was first inspired to explore a documentary aesthetic after observing the changes in her own children, both within themselves and in their bonds with one another. The desire to encapsulate these deeper underlying messages in her images, brought about a change in how she perceived the medium of photography and her role as a photographer. The camera became more than just a way to create art, but also a vehicle with which to express her view of life, the central role that family plays and to normalise the celebrations and struggles of the everyday. Over the last 10 years Collins has become one of the leading family photographers in the UK, working with clients from around the world. She has acquired several top awards at the Documentary Family Awards, including consecutively winning the environmental portrait prize in 2019 and 2020 and the pandemic category in 2020, as well as being named the overall winner of the Documentary Family Awards 2020. She was selected for the Female Voice Exhibition 2019 and has recently been shortlisted for the British Photography Awards 2021 in the Documentary category and shortlisted for the Sony Alpha Female Award 2021 for the World Photography Organisation.

Searching For Snails - Gretchen Yost

Gretchen Yost is a photographer based in the rural, mountain community of Pinedale, Wyoming. She is a documentary storyteller whose work centers on relationships between people, oneself, and their environments. She is particularly drawn to photographing children, with their imaginations unleashed, in the natural world.

Ina Esch - Thing T. Thing

Ina Esch was born in Münster, Germany, in 1979 and studied comparative literature.

Inspired by great artists, she took courses and was presented with a fascinating visual vocabulary. She discovered a whole new language, yet another possibility to play with reality. With photography, she could show things surrounding her in a recognizable way as well as the way they are perceived by her. Also, she likes hiding behind a photograph, only giving clues to what she is feeling without having to be too literal, like a poem or a memory.

She is influenced by romantic artists like Rilke, Hoffmann, Friedrich, Turner, modernists like Nabokov and Chandler, surreal artists like Murakami, Vian, Jun Ho Cho. She likes the idea of reality being altered by feelings, like dreaming, bending the perception of things.

She works primarily in photography, but also in texts and sketches. Her work has been described as raw, visceral, intimate and free, sometimes surreal.

She works in Münster, Berlin and Hamburg, and works mainly from home or in her studio.

Let Me Help You - Ina Esch

Ina Esch was born in Münster, Germany, in 1979 and studied comparative literature.

Inspired by great artists, she took courses and was presented with a fascinating visual vocabulary. She discovered a whole new language, yet another possibility to play with reality. With photography, she could show things surrounding her in a recognizable way as well as the way they are perceived by her. Also, she likes hiding behind a photograph, only giving clues to what she is feeling without having to be too literal, like a poem or a memory.

She is influenced by romantic artists like Rilke, Hoffmann, Friedrich, Turner, modernists like Nabokov and Chandler, surreal artists like Murakami, Vian, Jun Ho Cho. She likes the idea of reality being altered by feelings, like dreaming, bending the perception of things.

She works primarily in photography, but also in texts and sketches. Her work has been described as raw, visceral, intimate and free, sometimes surreal.

She works in Münster, Berlin and Hamburg, and works mainly from home or in her studio.

Quinceañera Party - Iratxe Alvarez

Iratxe Alvarez is a Spanish photographer based in Belgium. She works documentary, commercial and portrait photography. Passionate about people and human relationships, she enjoys witnessing ordinary life, full of beautiful personal stories and extraordinary moments

Baby #7 - Jami Hart

For the past six years, Jami has been running her photography business in the Lehigh Valley, Philly, NJ, and surrounding areas. She is an international award winner and specializes in self-love, empowerment, and lifestyle photography. She prides herself on her empathic nature and ability to hold space for feelings and experiences, as well as her never ending energy and desire to support folks in following their passions and paths in life.

Known as a serial entrepreneur, Jami has multiple side businesses and loves art. She is a mama, photographer, life and ADHD coach, DIY’er, kick-ass hype person, human rights advocate, and lover of life!

Sharing tThe Flame - Jessica Uhler

Jessica Uhler is a photographer and writer based in the Pacific Northwest. She works with photographic imagery and written word to express deeply personal experiences. Seeking to uncover poetic and spiritual meaning and resonance, she creates images of everyday things seen in a new light, including family life. Jessica photographs a diverse range of subjects for commercial and editorial clients, with a gritty and evocative aesthetic. She loves prosecco and jalapeno chips, sometimes together and dislikes ball point pens and flesh-colored clothing. She lives in Tacoma, Washington with her family of 6 and two dogs. Her new pandemic hobby is cold water swimming year round in the Salish Sea.

If I Can’t Dance, It’s Not My Revolution - Joanna Śmieja

Joanna is a self-taught photographer based in Wroclaw, southern Poland. Using both digital and analog cameras, in her photography she aims at capturing the beauty of simple forms and colors of mundane life. Most of her pictures are not staged and she does not limit herself with the topic being photographed. Instead, she prefers to walk with her camera down the streets and steal a picture of whatever attracts her attention - may it be a striking out color, a foggy landscape, interesting reflection, or a funny scene of a street life.

She publishes her pictures on Instagram, where she enjoys connecting with a broader community of friend photographers. Outside of social media, her works were shown on a couple of local and international exhibitions, including famous Rencontres d'Arles and The Other Art Fair in London. In the year of 2016, she had her own exhibition at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Wroclaw, documenting places and people she met during a two-year long travel around Wales and California.

Sharing Is Caring - Julia Kojeder

Julia has lost her heart to childhood. She loves to capture the loud and quiet, the honest, real and meaningful moments of everyday life.
To preserve the treasure of childhood and keep it for eternity.

Swimming At Betty’s - Kate Lovering

Before studying photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology Kate worked supporting individuals with disabilities providing in-home respite care for children, transition coordination for high school students entering the workplace, and job coaching for adults. After graduating from RIT she worked as a freelance photographer for The Finger Lakes Times, The Democrat & Chronicle, and The Washington Post. In 2016 she started Kate Lovering Photography where she marries all of her skills of working closely with individuals to tell their unique stories. Since 2014 Kate has taught film photography and darkroom printing to middle school students as well as digital photography to adults. She has won awards from the New York State Associated Press Association and is an Alumna of the Eddie Adams Workshop.

Boat Jumpers - Kristi Tamcsin

Kristi Tamcsin is a documentary family photographer based in Seattle Washington. Born and raised in Wisconsin the youngest of 5 kids, she loves being submerged in the dynamics of relationships and photographing the beauty and chaos of family life. In collage and the following 13 years, Kristi developed her craft in fine art painting, printmaking, and photography. However Kristi's focus changed to documenting family relationships after her brother died when she was 6 months pregnant with her first child. Those priorities deepened again when Kristi's mother passed away 7 years later. Grief and the deep mysteries of life motivate Kristi to stay present and alert to the blessings that are here and now and to use that awareness to make artful photographs.

Untitled - Kyra Barger

Kyra Barger is an award winning documentary and fine art photographer who has been an art and photography buff all her life.

While living in Burkina Faso, West Africa, she discovered her passion for creating honest and organic images. Shooting from her heart and capturing what moves her is what makes Kyra click the shutter. She hopes to make one feel something when they look at her images and for them to reflect her appreciation for subtlety.

Faso Photography is named after the country, culture, people and faces she ( and her camera ) fell in love with.

The Bounce House - Laura Beth Davidson

Laura Beth Davidson is a mother of four, an avid reader, an introvert, and a terrible dancer. She hates yogurt and confrontation, and she definitely doesn't drink enough water. An award-winning photographer, Laura Beth is also a down-to-earth mom with a messy minivan and a basket of clothes that really need to be folded.

Coffe Hour - Laura Beth Davidson

Laura Beth Davidson is a mother of four, an avid reader, an introvert, and a terrible dancer. She hates yogurt and confrontation, and she definitely doesn't drink enough water. An award-winning photographer, Laura Beth is also a down-to-earth mom with a messy minivan and a basket of clothes that really need to be folded.

Just The Nine Of Us - Laura Beth Davidson

Laura Beth Davidson is a mother of four, an avid reader, an introvert, and a terrible dancer. She hates yogurt and confrontation, and she definitely doesn't drink enough water. An award-winning photographer, Laura Beth is also a down-to-earth mom with a messy minivan and a basket of clothes that really need to be folded.

Community Baptism - Lauren Gayeski

Lauren Gayeski is a documentary family photographer, born and raised on the New Jersey shore. Though formally educated as a nurse, her journey into photography was led by a natural curiosity to explore and document the human experience. Her work echoes the complexity and significance of everyday life, highlighting stories of coming of age, our connection to water, and what it means to be human. She is a lover of words, both writing them and reading them, though she prefers run-on sentences and her nightstand includes no less than six half-read books, all dogeared with evidence of good intentions. Lauren lives with her husband and three teenage sons in Ocean City, NJ.

Love Is Love - Lavinia Nitu

Lavinia is a documentary family photographer based in Modena, Italy. She started in 2005 as a street photographer and in 2016 she decided to go pro and study and specialize in Documentary Family Photography.
Since then she has traveled all around Europe and North America photographing hundreds of families.
She’s an intersectional transfeminist and her unique voice was strongly influenced by women mentors and art creators that she surrounded herself with.
Her work is an ode to the unseen.

Together We Stand - Lavinia Nitu

Lavinia is a documentary family photographer based in Modena, Italy. She started in 2005 as a street photographer and in 2016 she decided to go pro and study and specialize in Documentary Family Photography.
Since then she has traveled all around Europe and North America photographing hundreds of families.
She’s an intersectional transfeminist and her unique voice was strongly influenced by women mentors and art creators that she surrounded herself with.
Her work is an ode to the unseen.

Lisa Hu Chen - Group Yoga

Lisa Hu Chen is a documentary photographer based in Southern California. Her background in graphic design helps to bring forth the color, composition and storytelling she strives to embed in every frame she fills, regardless of the subject. Camera always in hand and four kids in tow, Lisa and her husband live for every opportunity to wanderlust and eat their way through cities and countrysides around the world.

Coach Of The Year - Lisa Hu Chen

Lisa Hu Chen is a documentary photographer based in Southern California. Her background in graphic design helps to bring forth the color, composition and storytelling she strives to embed in every frame she fills, regardless of the subject. Camera always in hand and four kids in tow, Lisa and her husband live for every opportunity to wanderlust and eat their way through cities and countrysides around the world.

A Covid Park Play Date - Maggie Devereux

Maggie Devereux is a documentary photographer originally from Edmonton, Alberta Canada who now calls Toronto home. Her unique take on exploring everyday family life was the foundation of her career and her work has been featured and celebrated in national publications such as Hello! Canada and the National Post. In addition to her work as a highly in-demand documentary family photographer, Maggie is currently working on her first extended gallery show which will premiere in Toronto in the Spring of 2022. The core of her work rests on her fundamental belief that images can take us to any moment in time, the good and the bad, and remind us of what was and what can become of the journey that is our every day.

Morning Meeting - Marie-Pierre Castonguay

Marie-Pierre is a documentary family photographer, graphic designer and illustrator based in a suburb of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Easygoing and open-minded, the mother of two believes love and laughter are the cure for many problems. She feels everybody can learn from other people's unique experiences, different points of view, culture and background. She dreams of a world where everyone is respected and accepted by others. A world where each person is confident and proud of who they are and where they come from. And she knows documentary family photography has a big role to play in it.

Camp Prep - Marie O’Mahony

Marie O'Mahony is a wedding and family photographer based in Co Clare, Ireland. From her first exposure to the world of family documentary photography, she has embraced its approach as a way to honour the world of everyday family life as well as the celebrations that bring people together. She constantly strives to show the uniqueness and inherent worth of every person she photographs and hopes that by doing that, she is able to give them a visual testimony of how much they are valued and loved.

Ladies Circle - Marta Szyszka

Marta Szyszka is molecular biologist who works in Poznań University of Medical Sciences (Poland) and a photographer as a passion. She is a laureate of the competition Grand Press Photo in 2019, ( 1st place for Documentary Project), TIFA (2nd place single portrait, in 2021) and Documentary Photography Award (8th place narrative story - documentary series, 2022). Awarded in many Polish competitions about documentary photography. To this day she had a few individual and group exhibitions in Poland.

Unity - Marta Szyszka

Marta Szyszka is molecular biologist who works in Poznań University of Medical Sciences (Poland) and a photographer as a passion. She is a laureate of the competition Grand Press Photo in 2019, ( 1st place for Documentary Project), TIFA (2nd place single portrait, in 2021) and Documentary Photography Award (8th place narrative story - documentary series, 2022). Awarded in many Polish competitions about documentary photography. To this day she had a few individual and group exhibitions in Poland.

Public Transportation Humor - Melissa Read Healy

Melissa is a documentary family photographer based in Greensboro, North Carolina who focuses on real moments of family life. She began documenting her four children when they were young and hasn’t stopped since. She opened Melissa Read Healy Photography in 2015, documenting families during “Day In The Life” and “Environmental Portrait” sessions. Both sessions strive to find each family's unique personalities through emotive images that make the viewer question or feel. She is a photographer that encourages families to choose activities or places that bring them comfort and joy and will go anywhere they go… underwater or above land.

Alone But Together - Mercedes Armella

Mercedes Armella was born in Mexico City, where she spent the first 25 years of her life. She met the love of her life in 2010, got married and joined on his journey to follow his passion; somewhere along the way she found hers. She has been a photographer since 2012. A few years later, motherhood irrupted in her life, teaching her the reaches of that particular kind of love and the importance of living in the moment, so she would never miss the fleeting instant of perfect harmony.

Motherhood has also taught her to appreciate the beauty of chaos, the comfort of shared exhaustion and to treasure the images that are hidden in the most ordinaty moments of life.

Along with the ongoing project of documenting family life, Mercedes is working on a documentary project about creativity in Charleston, South Carolina, where she now lives with her husband and two children.

We Are Family - Anna Meyer-Kahlen

Anna Meyer-Kahlen lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany . She discovered her love for photography during her law studies. Afterwards she studied communication design with a focus on photography at the FH Dortmund, Germany.

After years as a freelance photographer for renowned magazines and advertising agencies, she came to family and portrait photography through her own family life with her three daughters.

She loves to document family life with her camera in a very honest and free way. "The beauty and the special lies in the everyday".

Many Hands - Michelle Molnár

Michelle Molnár grew up in a family of artists and was taught from an early age the importance and joy of creative expression. She lives in the southwestern United States with her husband and daughter. Early in her career, she was a high school art teacher and later became a teacher mentor and university instructor. Michelle is fortunate to have traveled extensively and learned about families and cultures all over the world. Her education in the visual arts and interest in community, culture, and family bonds greatly informs her current work as a documentary family photographer where she tells each family's unique story.

Summer In Galicia - Miriam Jave

Miriam Jave is a family photographer based in Barcelona. She loves to capture honest, emotive and authentic moments of motherhood, childhood and family life.

Stuffies - Nadja Arold

Nadja Arold is an award-winning documentary family photographer, based in Melbourne, Australia. She’s a wallflower, quiet and curious, and always observing the world around her. She’s fascinated by people and their stories. Nadja believes that everyone (and everything) has a story to tell and she’s passionate about telling these stories through photographs.

Light In The Darkness - Nicole LaPointe

Nicole has been practicing photography for 20+ years now. Nicole knew from an early age, running around at 3 years old with a camera, that photography was part of her journey.
Nicole is a Click Pro Elite, 2X VOICE finalist, Published, & Educator.

Nicole has a passion for documentary work, and has completed a 365 project, and is currently working on completing another 365 for 2022.
Nicole specializes in Artistic Lifestyle Portraiture & Documentary Photography for clients in Michigan & Florida, as well as an Abstract, Landscape, Street, & Wildlife Artist.

Care To Join Us? - Nicole LaPointe

Nicole has been practicing photography for 20+ years now. Nicole knew from an early age, running around at 3 years old with a camera, that photography was part of her journey.
Nicole is a Click Pro Elite, 2X VOICE finalist, Published, & Educator.

Nicole has a passion for documentary work, and has completed a 365 project, and is currently working on completing another 365 for 2022.
Nicole specializes in Artistic Lifestyle Portraiture & Documentary Photography for clients in Michigan & Florida, as well as an Abstract, Landscape, Street, & Wildlife Artist.

Home In The Dessert - Petra Eyre

Petra Eyre grew up in southern Germany. After 15 years in Atlantic Canada, she now lives in Dubai, UAE with her family. She is creative and organized; two characteristics she uses daily as an elementary teacher. Exploring, however, has always been part of her life and travelling with her two kids and husband is what makes her happiest. Camera in hand, she documents her family’s journey - through different cultures and at home.

Learn - Rebecca Lewis

Rebecca Lewis is a photographer working in Suffolk and Essex in the UK. She loves how a documentary approach enables her to slow down and focus on small details, to search for the beauty in everyday actions. Be it the chaos of a noisy family breakfast shoot or a goldsmith wielding fire to melt alloys, documentary photography gives her the opportunity to pause and observe. She loves to truly engage with her subject, capturing their love and passion and helping them see the magic of their everyday life.

Strength In Unity - Salonee Jain

Salonee Jain is an India-based photographer and educator. Her work primarily focusses on capturing her country, it’s people, diverse culture, range of emotions and most importantly, soul.

With an MBA in Finance, her initial career in consulting, required Salonee to travel the length and breadth of the country. This gave her the opportunity to interact with people from urban/ rural areas, observe the different lifestyles/habits, and study them.

With her work, she wants to showcase the culture of her nation to the world and how its unity lies in its diversity –not just diversity in food and clothing, but also human connections and community relations.

Salonee believes that photography teaches us perspective not only while composing photos but also in life. As an educator, she coaches kids and families across the world, on seeing things differently through the medium of photography.

Salonee has received several awards in India from leading photojournalist/ photography associations. Salonee lives in Mumbai, India with her husband and their son.

High Tide Derby Hoorah - Sarah Chavez

Sarah Jean (they/her) is a personal historian in the Southern California area. They fell in love with documentary approach to photography over 6 years ago and has not looked back. Her passion resides in capturing others’ passions. Whether that is in a hobby, a creative endeavor, or in their loved ones, SJ strives to tell people’s stories as true to life as they can. Sarah Jean photographs under the name Picture Something Productions and can be found on instagram @picturesomething, Facebook, TikTok @letspicturesomething, and on her website.

Hands That Hold - Shirley Sullivan

Shirley is a documentary family photographer based out of Calgary, Canada. Her background in nursing has helped form her non-judgemental lens on life and she has developed a particular passion for capturing people in the hardships and heartaches, not just life’s happiest highs. You can find Shirley at Day in the Life of a Mom making photos of the reality of motherhood, or outside of photography probably exploring and camping with her kids and husband.

Women’s Retreat - Tiffany Luong

Tiffany Luong is a Los Angeles documentary and commercial/editorial photographer. Her work is the thoughtful internalization of her subjects’ perspectives to reflect back to them the stories they’ll need later. She takes an anthropological participant-observer approach to create storytelling photographs that feel alive.

Tiffany’s start with photography began during her rite of passage backpacking through China when her now-husband gave her an engagement ring and a DSLR. Tiffany has photographed over 350 families and has been ranked in the international Top 100 Family Photographers by the Family Photojournalist Association for 3 years in a row and in the top 10 in the United States by This is Reportage: Family. Although her artwork does not don any prestigious institutions, it graces the walls and shelves of many families’ homes, which mean more to her than anything. She currently lives in Alhambra with her husband, 6-year-old son, and 2-year-old daughter in a tiny (498 sq ft!) home.