Seattle Family Photographer

poetic. embodied. soulful.

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We’re spiritual beings having a human experience.”

pIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

welcome

Hi there!
I’m Jackie, a Seattle family photographer who lives to cultivate connection and presence while creating art from the human experience.
Society tells us that we should look, act, and be a certain way. But we know there’s more to the human experience than the “should’s” imposed on us by others, and we’re longing to explore the edges of what’s truly possible…in our relationships, our families, and the depths of our own soul.

More than anything we are longing to reconnect.

This isn’t just a photo session, it’s an invitation to peel back and strip away what doesn’t matter and get to the essence of what does.

You won’t receive a collection of poses, because it’s the moments that do matter. The raw, messy, quiet, chaotic, beautiful, embodied, soulful, real moments that make up the fabric of your human experience.

Seattle family photographer's reflection in the mirror while embracing her child.

I’m here to help you remember. To remind you that you are on this blue and green planet that we share to live, to connect, to learn, to love, to feel. To show you that not only does your experience matter, your experience is art.

Mother holding her infant during a sunset family photography session.

YOUR FAMILY IS

poetry

Your connection with your partner is sacred. You have chosen to live life with this person and to carry each other when needed during the journey. There is music in your baby’s laughter and your toddler lives life with their whole body. Your children love you as you are in the moment, not as you think you should be. Theirs is an unwavering and pure love that exists outside the realm of society’s and our own unforgiving expectations.
Your only job is to love the way you already do, be who you already are, connect in all the ways that are you, and let me do the rest. Come to me as you are and I’ll show you that you are enough.
Your family is a beautiful poem and it’s time you heard the poetry.

YOUR HIGHEST SELF IS CALLING

TO YOU TO

rewild

We all feel it, this distance from our intuition, our own trust and voice. We long to get back, to find a day where life isn’t so mundane, so overwhelming, where the “should’s” aren’t ruling over us anymore. We crave our own power and purpose, our own howl, and in the midst of feeling like it’s lost forever or gone for good, we can give up.
But we don’t need to. We can return. We can come home and connect with our higher selves. With each other and with Mother Earth. We can invite magic and mystery back into our lives.
We can rewild.
Woman dancing in a sunset lit forest.
Baby touching mother's face while breastfeeding during Seattle family photography session on the beach.
Black and white image of a mother holding her young child.

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.” ~Mary Oliver

moment-driven family sessions

Ours is the invisible work, 
that which is transient in nature. 
Wiping messy mouths, 
changing dirty nappies, 
listening to our children's seemingly unending stories, sharing their secrets, 
chasing away their monsters, 
kissing their hot tears. 
Holding space while everything constantly changes while staying exactly the same. 

The invisible work that wears us out while leaving us questioning what we accomplished all day. 
Transformative work that can't be measured by regular time, instead passing in fits and starts and by how suddenly our baby's hand dimples melt away. 

We are space holders, hand holders, tiny body holders. We begin by carrying them in our wombs. Our toddlers sit on our hips. And, as teenagers and adults, we hold their heads on our shoulders. 
The weight of their little bodies tethering us to our own humanity.

Moment-driven Family Photography is a chance to transmute what feels invisible into something tangible. To declare to the world that a moment happened, and yes! we were there, too! To honor an everyday life as a life worth living and no less worthy because it doesn’t feel curated for Instagram or Pinterest.

To feel deeply into motherhood. 
To find the magic in holding our children, 
playing barefoot in the grass, eating together, laughing, and yes, even crying. 
To become fully embodied. 
To know that our work matters and to document it so that it, too, can take up residence with the shiny moments as works of art.

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FAVORITE IMAGES

FAMILIES

FAVORITE IMAGES

REWILDING

I AM ALWAYS

LOOKING FOR

CONNECTION

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tHESE AREN’T jUST IMAGES, THEY ARE YOUR

MOMENTS

snippets of your experience that build your big, beautiful, precious LIFE

KIND WORDS

Couple gazing at each other while holding their baby.

“Jackleen’s photography is beyond stunning. Her eye and aesthetics are such a gift behind the lens. She is so skilled at curating and capturing beauty. Her warmth and love radiates from her heart as she seems to make camera shy folk, like me, feel at ease. I highly recommend Jackleen’s work if you are looking for tasteful and aesthetically pleasing family photos that you will cherish forever.”

AMBER (FAMILY SESSION)

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