Lovely Lily. November 15, 2017

Today was an amazing day! Today, I met Arty and his daughter, Lily.

I recently gave a presentation about the Teen Parent Story Project to the Teen Father Workshop, where I connected with Arty. He and Lily generously volunteered to be a part of the project and I am so grateful to them. I met them at the beautiful library in downtown Hillsboro, where we started our photo shoot. Lily is amazing, I instantly fell in love with her. She is so bright and kind and silly, all of the best things! Arty was all of these things as well, so obviously a wonderful dad to this fabulous little girl. You will be seeing more of Arty and Lily at the opening in May! Mark your calendars, May 16th at The Paragon Gallery! More info soon!

More about the project:

The Teen Parent Story Project.

I have been photographing teen families. Some of the parents are teens now, some parents were teens when their child or children were born, but are now in their 20's, 30's, 40's, etc. Celebrating these families has been a gorgeous, inspiring journey. It has been a joy getting to know all of these families, each with very different and stunning stories. When I became a mother, I learned that mothers are the strongest people on this planet. Teen mothers and fathers are some of the toughest people I have ever met. All of the people I have met along this journey have shown me dignity, power, strength, beauty, perseverance and success. I continue to meet new, fascinating families and I will continue to photograph them, to talk to them, to gather their stories so that one day soon we will have a grand party, a Gallery Gala, and we will all come together to celebrate these bad ass families.

If you would like to know more about this project, please contact me. If you are or were a teen parent and would like to volunteer for this project, please let me know. I am still looking for volunteers.

Thank you families!!!