I am a storyteller by nature. My stories are your stories: photos and words curated to reveal what makes you purely you. I’m interested in truth (even when it’s uncomfortable). Being real is my philosophy –in business and in life.

A professional photographer of over 25 years, I began taking photos as a child. I learned my craft on film and fell in love with using light to create mood. Later, the birth of my son ignited a newer passion to document time as it was in the moment.  While holding down a corporate career, photography was my pleasing side-gig.  In 2006, my partner bought me a digital camera for Christmas and my career as I know it now grew. It was all a natural evolution.

I love to connect at a deeper level. I’m captivated by the in-between; that space where we radiate a realness that no amount of posing or rehearsal can duplicate. To me, that’s where the magic happens. It’s the entrepreneur’s focus, a child's curiosity, the lover’s soulful glance, and the whole-hearted musician swept up by emotion onstage.

I’ve been called a bit of a maverick since I was young. People didn’t always ‘get me’. In fact, I was among the first to use social media as a portfolio, and to build a platform and like-minded community of over +20K people. And back then, putting your photos online with a signature was nearing blasphemy but today it is how we do business. I started fusing family and documentary-style photography early on, much like the lifestyle photography we love today. I’m humbled to have been a part of the beginnings of digital era photography. I believe photography is not about technique: it’s about emotion. The key to everything is always following your heart.

I specialize in personal image branding and content creation. But, I also think the concept of branding has been distorted along the way. I’m here to build something deeper than sales without conviction for the product, people or planet. I’m interested in radical humility as a way of life: I’ll take honest impact over superficial image any day.

I take my work seriously -I get the perfect shot, even if it means lying in the only puddle within a 20 km radius- and I make play a priority, too. I love to create big messes in my little kitchen, burst into spontaneous song, and I claim fame as the car dancing queen and mix tape DJ. Living my best life means slow mornings, like barefoot walks on the beach with my dog, three cats, and bold west coast coffee.

I lead by example through deliberate lifestyle choices. I choose the simplicity of tiny-home living. I vote to nurture nature; to enrich, not exploit. I pick veganism because from rights to rescue, all animals matter. I am educating myself to become a better Indigenous ally. I stand for a compassionate revolution. I’ve noticed that when people observe our intentional actions, they make changes for themselves, uncovering the compassion they already had.

I believe we write the story of our life. Our choices, mindset and heart-space become how we live and what we advocate. For 7 years, I answered a calling that became a nationwide movement for mental health and suicide awareness. Life After Dark took me across Canada interviewing and photographing survivors of suicide loss and attempt. This part of my story culminated with a book and two songs, and it gifted me a strength I didn’t know I had. It also tore me up. I learned a lot. Like cultivating the art of truly listening: just sitting in space to witness another person in the dark and how our true presence can make an impact. Like how sharing stories of our pain and resilience turn our wounds into wisdom and our pain into purpose. And that expressing our lived experience does more than inspire healing. It teaches us to write the story we want to live.

I’m a little bit wild. Feral is my favourite f-word. I kayak in the Pacific Ocean with whales and hike rugged Northwest coastlines and lush rainforest year-round. Their gifts of solitude bring me back to me. Travelling is woven into the fabric of who I am, but I’m enamoured with having a place to call home in Vancouver Island, Canada. I acknowledge that I practice my work and lifestyle on unceded Coast Salish Territory.

I get to be the mom of Lawson, whose quiet strength, resiliency, and empathetic heart reminds me that I won the kid lottery even though he’s an adult now. I share my life with an amazingly compassionate, patient and funny human, Shane, and have the privilege of being a stepmom to his three now-grown children. While I do the best I can, their love helped carve me into who I am.

I am currently walking through the journey of dementia with my beloved dad, who is affectionately known as 'Bruno The Cat'. I write about him often and he has become a favourite of those who choose to follow me on my social media accounts. Dad and I laugh a lot. We lost my mom to lung cancer in the spring of 2019 and my brother-in-law to glioblastoma in the winter of that same year. Grief has taught me an immense amount about life and caused me to really dig deep. It's brought me to more gratitude for a simple life and what I get to share with others.

Suzanne