THE INDEX

When I was five, my mom would often take me to the local library as our family activity. I would sit between the stacks and pour through books on weather and the stars, dreaming of growing up and photographing those things one day.

As time went on, I maintained my love for photography but came to see it as something you do just for fun.

Maybe it was because my dad always told me being an artist wasn't something you could raise a family off of. Maybe I was just scared...

Whatever the reason, I decided to let go of my dreams of becoming a photographer and instead pursue a career as a pediatric reconstructive surgeon. It felt safe. It felt like the thing I should do.

Sitting in an MCAT prep class one night in college, a wave of nausea hit me as I suddenly began to envision a reality of going to medical school for the next 12 years... I didn't want to give my life to do the thing I should do.

I wanted to spend my life doing the thing I wanted to do.

So I got up, walked out and never looked back. 

Mother, photograhper, Educator

Suzy

xoxo,

Because what I love most is getting to work with people from all walks of life. Being invited into peoples' homes and intimate spaces, I am continually reminded that everyone is so different. Everyone has different lived experiences and ultimately different priorities. Everyone has different ways of parenting their children or communicating with their partner.  That patience, compassion and empathy are such important core values. And there is nothing that inspires me more.

After giving up medical school I decided to get my Masters in Public Health while I figured out what to do next. I specialized in Maternal/Child Health and became a trained doula while writing my capstone thesis on the efficacy of doula support in childbirth. While working with my doula clients they started asking me if I could take pictures of their birth or of their family and somehow that evolved into Simply by Suzy Photography. Over the past 14 years, I've worked with national and global companies such as Medela and Monica + Andy, to help them create imagery that speaks to mothers and families. I've also had the pleasure of working with thousands of families.

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

my motto

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