Moments With Steph

Steph has a new hair color every few months. She has a love an insatiable love for Dragon Ball Z, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, horror movies, soda and ice cream. She’s been smoking since she was thirteen, loves anything and everything about dogs, and has an incredibly boisterous laugh. For our shoot together we talked about being ourselves and what “portrait” means. I had so much fun walking around her neighborhood, seeing her old art school, and photographing little snippets of things that are important to how she defines herself. It makes me wonder what I would want in my portraits. (Probably Tom and the cats, for one.) But I wonder- if you had forty minutes to take me somewhere, where would we go? Your favorite coffee shop? Would I be snapping your favorite drink and maybe your laptop? Perhaps your knitting station, or your child’s crib? It’s fun to think about the little things that we hold as a part of ourselves, isn’t it? (OH I KNOW, I’d have a CAMERA- duh. But maybe that’s too easy of an answer.)