My experience of motherhood—in pregnancy, birth, postpartum and beyond—has changed me. Early in my motherhood, photography became an artistic way for me to explore how motherhood had changed me and continues to change me. Today, I photograph other women walking along this journey, in all of its ups and downs, as a way to explore the mystery of motherhood even more deeply.
Whether you want to preserve the memories of your pregnancy, birth, early newborn days or later days as a family, I’m here for you to document your motherhood and family story in all its beauty, rawness, highs and lows.
Let’s talk about how I can help remember and honor your journey as your Fraser Valley photographer!
Hello, I’m Carly, a mother of three children and a family documentary photographer.
“...for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Looking for a newborn, birth or family documentary photographer in Abbotsford?
Why Hidden Lives Photography?
In a world where taking an image is right at everyone’s fingertips, why should you invest in professional photos?
Because beautiful photos that tell a family’s story — and particularly a mother’s story — are important.=
Mothers are often the documenters of their family story. But as they document and preserve family memories, they are often absent from the photographs. Photography allows your family story to be preserved with your essential place within it. And beautiful images that highlight the relationality and connection between those you love tell that story in a unique way.
Telling your story is equally important for your children and for you. Artistic, thoughtful images that tell your family story help your child understand their origins and help you see with new eyes your unique journey in motherhood.
Photographs are powerful. And photographs skillfully and artfully taken can impact your own sense of yourself, your journey, and your family’s story.
It’s always my goal as a photographer to capture images that are not only beautiful, but meaningful, that will allow you to see with new eyes how mysterious and beautiful your journey is, to help you appreciate it in a new way, and remember it in the years ahead. That is why I have named my work here, “Hidden Lives Photography.”
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Abbotsford, BC | Chilliwack, BC | Fraser Valley, BC | Langley, BC | Mission, BC | Maple Ridge, BC | Vancouver, BC