Retelling Real Life

Retelling Real Life

Seattle Photographer

Here’s the deal: if you just want pretty pictures, I’m not your photographer. Because life is messy, and unexpected, and so much more than just pretty.

I document in ways that other photographers don’t, so you’ll have photos most others won’t. Photos that capture your life just like you remember it. Those rad moments of honesty and intimacy with the love of your life, or your family, or the bad bitch in the mirror.

As a Seattle photographer who also travels for families, elopements and intimate weddings, I spent the first two decades of my life learning every single rule of photography. And then spent the last decade breaking those rules in order to capture people in their most human moments. No overly-posed photos. No artificial vibes. No awkwardness. Just pictures they can look back on and say, “I remember that.”

And that’s what I want to do for you.

A bride and groom pose for a Seattle photographer in a garden.

PICTURES THAT FEEL LIKE


Smoking a Cigarette on a
NY Rooftop as the Sun Sets Watching a Rainstorm From
Your Covered Porch Driving with the Windows Down
on a Warm Summer Day Laughing Until Your Stomach Hurts a 100th Kiss That Still Feels
Like a First Kiss Yelling Every Word of Your Favorite Rap Song
While Driving Alone in Your Car Twirling the Cord on the Phone
While Talking to Your Bestfriend the Perfect Cup of Coffee Sitting on Your Dad’s Lap
Driving as a Little Kid

Press + Publications

From Outside In

The New York Times

Vogue

Seattle Bride

THE WED

Martha Stewart Weddings

Vogue Lifestyle

BRIDES

Harper’s Bazaar

2025

Winter 2024

Winter 2023

Winter 2022

Spring 2022

Spring 2020

Summer 2019

Spring 2019

Spring 2018

Exhibitions +
Public Showings

Head On Photo Festival

Practice

Long-form documentary family work

Gathering, celebration, and documentary wedding narratives often spanning multiple days and locationS

Testimonials

  • “We love these so much, they are exactly what we were looking for in this exact season of life.”

    ELIZABETH

  • “We are in awe. These are such a treasure for us.”

    ZOE + NATE

  • “Every insecurity I have ever had about the way I look in photos just vanished into thin air. I love us in these photos.”

    JESSICA

  • “You captured everything so wonderfully, all the photos are so full of life, and even more beautiful than we were hoping for. Damn your are just the absolute best.”

    NANCY

A NOTE

From the Queen
of Candid Moments

I learned a long time ago that the real magic of photography is not about capturing the right pose for the perfect picture. It’s about telling a life’s worth of inside jokes and stories in a single frame–truthfully and authentically–so that you can revisit them over and over and over again. Photography is about trust, and comfort and empathy. And, as your Seattle photographer, I bring that with me. Every session, every click.

Stay groovy,

- Sara

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