Family laughing together in an apple orchard, parents crouching with young children holding fresh apples. Mahtomedi, Minnesota

family

photography

for the beautifully chaotic, wildly loving, real-life moments

Based in Stillwater, MN
Two smiling siblings lying beside their swaddled newborn baby sister on a white bed. Wisconsin. Minnesota.

family

photography

for the beautifully chaotic, wildly loving, real-life moments

Based in Stillwater, MN
Happy family of five sitting together on green grass in casual summer outfits. Wisconsin. Minnesota.

family

photography

for the beautifully chaotic, wildly loving, real-life moments

Based in Stillwater, MN
A couple sits on a green couch with their newborn baby surrounded by three dogs in a cozy home.

family

photography

for the beautifully chaotic, wildly loving, real-life moments

Based in Stillwater, MN
HEARTFELT


CONNECTED + PLAYFUL


NOSTALGIC


Child-led photographer
Dark-haired mother gently kissing her newborn baby wrapped in a soft blanket indoors.
Close-up of a newborn baby lying on white sheets with tiny hands and feet in the air.
Two young boys sitting on grass with green bottles and a black and white dog beside a building.

photographs that feel like Grandma’s walls

You know the kind—walls covered in photographs of grandkids at every age, wedding days, babies who are now grown, family vacations, and generations squeezed onto one couch.


A little imperfect, a little crooked,

and completely full of love.


I want your gallery to feel like home - warm, lived-in, and filled with the faces of the people you love most.


Every season. Every stage.

Every version of your family.

Smiling brunette mother sitting with four young children against a white studio background.

 

Hi, I am Jessica

 

There’s usually a camera in one hand and child in the other with a mouthful of dessert—because balance.


I’m a mom of 4 wildly curious, snack-loving, chaos-generating little humans.  Which means I’ve earned my unofficial degree in distraction wizardry,  and am deeply familiar with the practice of lollygagging and dilly-dallying.


I’m fluent in dinosaur roars, baby babble, and navigating big feelings like a tiny therapist with snacks.


Oh—and my love language? Reese’s Peanut Butter Blizzards with a gorgeous drizzle of caramel, of course.

 

Browse my work
Smiling mother in beige sweater holding sleeping swaddled newborn outdoors in a green park.

Portraits


newborns


Weddings


Couples

Black and white photo of three siblings cuddling and kissing a swaddled newborn on a bed.

 

connect

 

 

Like a friend who has been there all along