Motherhood and family photographer in Rotterdam, Den Haag, & Leiden
Poetry made Visual
To look through them one day, and remember every little thing.
Honest and beautiful, unpolished and unposed. For lives woven-through with ordinary magic.
Relaxed, natural storytelling.
These little windows are for you.
And more than that. These are for them. To see that they were loved- that they have always been loved. Held, snuggled into, and breathed in like laundry. Laughed with, played with. Sat with in the stillness, and forgiven in the noise.
I’m here to honour your story, and capture you as you are. Flawed and vulnerable. Unguarded, loving, and loved.
We don’t need more than this. This is enough.
Ordinary is enough.
I chatterbox, share, and overshare. I rabbithole, sidetrack, and share mortifying stories (of which I have many).
But there is a silver lining to this oddly chaotic cloud.
You’ll feel at home with me. Walls-down comfy, like coffee with an old friend. You’ll never need to edit yourselves, filter your affection, or tidy-away those pieces the world never sees.
This is a space in which everything belongs.
Bring me tantrums, and tears; cosied-in closeness and couch-bundle chaos. The hilarious, the messy, and the quietly true.
Giving you photos that’ll reach through the years, and carry you back. Not to these fleeting few hours with me. But to your life either side, with them.
Storyteller, homebody, homegrown South African. Blissfully married cat-lady, and a motherhood and family photographer in Rotterdam.
Hey, I’m Theresa.
You’ll find out soon enough, so I may as well tell you now…I am not the most ‘normal’ of family photographers.
It is a kind of love, is it not?
How the cup holds the tea,
How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,
How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes
Or toes. How soles of feet know
Where they’re supposed to be.
I’ve been thinking about the patience
Of ordinary things, how clothes
Wait respectfully in closets
And soap dries quietly in the dish,
And towels drink the wet
From the skin of the back.
And the lovely repetition of stairs.
And what is more generous than a window?
The Patience of Ordinary Things
by Pat Schneider
june j.
“We will always be grateful to have these memories and stage of our little ones on film.”
SHANNAH P.
“She really saw and captured beauty in images that I couldn't even see at the time. A real artistic eye..”
CARMEN CH.
“She has such a gift for capturing emotion and connection in a way that feels authentic and timeless.”
It’s no small thing, being the witness to your lives.
Being a part of your family, and watching it grow. Seeing bumps become babies, and babies become toddlers. Wriggling, to walking, to jumping on the bed.
Watching them grow into delightful little humans. Seeing their faces light up as I walk through the door.
And as a motherhood and family photographer, it’s my favourite thing about what I do. Getting invited into people’s homes, their families, their lives. Being the keeper of their memories, and guarding them from the years.
If you love my work- if you can picture yourselves in the frame -
NEW BORN & MOTHERHOOD
MATERNITY
FAMILY
I’d love to tell your story too.