REAL. HONEST. MOTHERHOOD.
Photographs that bring you back to the moments you thought you’d never forget.
You are a strong, amazing, and beautiful mother. And I am here to show you.
Hidden in the seemingly mundane – unfolding in the rituals and rhythms of your everyday, there is magic. Waking up every morning with all four of your kids in your bed. Snuggling your preschooler in one arm, your baby in another while the morning sun streams in. These moments are all too fleeting and often forgotten.
Through the art of documentary photography, you become witness to your life -your experience of motherhood, your joy, your challenges, and the everyday moments you thought you would never forget. It is from these raw, unpolished and in-situ moments that I capture the story of your love in action.
What will you want to remember?
Birth
A flood of emotion on your face. Joy, like you’ve never before experienced. Holding your baby for the very first time. A love no words could capture. What if you could remember every detail of your baby’s birth? Bring yourself back to every feeling? Every moment?
Even the ones you never saw?
motherhood
Your baby curled on your bare chest. A tiny finger wrapped around yours. Your growing belly, your postpartum belly raw and beautiful. The love in your eyes when you breastfeed your baby.
Document the most intimate moments of your life.
Family
Afternoon story time. Your kids snuggled in the sofa next to you, favourite stuffy’s in one hand, cherished blanky’s in another. Melting ice-cream cones and ecstatic faces at the local ice-cream shop. Hide and seek, bath time, playground shenanigans, bedtime snuggles. The everyday moments that make up family life.
Hold on to them forever.
“As my kids grow, it becomes harder to close my eyes and recall the minutiae details of their young lives.”
Hello, I am Vannessa,
mother to two wild and loving kids, Evie & Harry, former engineer turned photographer, storyteller, and wondrous witness of the everyday magic of motherhood.
As an award-winning documentary photographer, specializing in birth and motherhood, I love capturing the real, raw and honest moments.
The most precious keepsake I own are my mother’s photo albums. She died 10 years ago so I cannot ask her today what I was like as a child or what our daily routines were. I cannot ask how I made her smile as a three-year-old, what I did that drove her crazy as a rambling toddler or what antics I enacted that made her love me that much more.
My desire in our time together is to give you this incredible gift – the gift of showing you your love, your everyday experiences of motherhood so that you will have this treasured and timeless keepsakes in the years to come.
Together, we unveil what makes your motherhood journey unique.
