There is always a reason to wait.

Until the weight is gone.

Until the kids are older.

Until work settles down.

Until you feel more confident.

Until you have something worth celebrating.

Until you look like the woman you think you should be by now.

And meanwhile, you keep taking photographs of everyone else.

You are the missing person in your own family archive.

That is not a photography problem. It's what happens when you've spent so long being everything to everyone that being seen starts to feel optional.

It isn't.

You don't need to become more worthy of the photograph. You need to stop making your visibility conditional.

That's what we're doing here. Not manufacturing a better version of you.

Photographing the one who's already here.