About Emily
I photograph birth because it's the most honest thing I know.
For six years, I've been invited into rooms where everything changes. Over a hundred births across three states. Each one different. Each one sacred.
My husband and I live on a small homestead in Central Florida, surrounded by our vegetable garden and a little flock of chickens who remind us daily that life is both ordinary and miraculous. We moved here from Oregon in 2023 to be closer to family, and we're dreaming of our own little one joining us soon.
I'm award-winning, published, certified in all the ways that matter professionally. But here's what really matters: I believe birth is art. Raw, unfiltered, breathtaking art.
I don't clean up your story. I honor it exactly as it unfolds. The way you breathe through contractions. How your partner's hands shake when they first hold your baby. The golden hour light streaming through hospital blinds. The tears that come from somewhere deeper than you knew existed.
Every birth teaches me something new about strength, about love, about what it means to be human. I've seen quiet births and wild births, planned births and surprise births. I've watched first-time parents become a family and seen seasoned mothers meet their newest love.
Your story matters. Not the version you think it should be, but the version it actually is. Beautiful in its imperfection. Powerful in its truth.
I'm here to witness it. To capture it. To give you something to hold onto when the sleepless nights make everything feel like a blur.
Because birth changes everything. And that deserves to be remembered.










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A.S. IN HUMAN SERVICES— CABRILLO COLLEGE, 2019
A.S. IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES— CABRILLO COLLEGE, 2019
CERTIFIED POSTPARTUM DOULA— TINYLOVE DOULA, 2019
CERTIFIED BIRTH DOULA— TINYLOVE DOULA, 2020
TRAINED BREASTFEEDING COUNSELOR— INTERNATIONAL DOULA INSTITUTE, 2020
NATIONAL MIDWIFERY INSTITUTE, MIDWIFERY INTENSIVES WITH ELIZABETH DAVIS, 2020
LABOR AND BIRTH DOULA TRAINING— PRODOULA, 2021
POSTPARTUM AND INFANT CARE DOULA TRAINING — PRODOULA, 2021
DONA LABOR AND BIRTH DOULA TRAINING— MOTHERTREE DOULA TRAINING, 2021
TRAUMA INFORMED CARE FOR BIRTHWORKERS— DONA, 2021
CERTIFIED BIRTH PHOTOGRAPHER — BIRTH BECOMES YOU, 2022