Here we are | Our Story

HERE WE ARE.

Life partners. Business partners.
Mallory + Justin.

In a general description, we are a creative partnership providing photography in many forms for clients and brands all over the US; education, workshops, and gatherings for the like-minded and for university students; creating art and expressing ourselves in our own ways, for our own hearts. All while documenting our experiences in life, love, and travel. 

OUR JOURNEY (SO FAR)

Our early years together saw us dabbling in This and definitely in That. We bought a house and made it home; had more cats than you might suspect. Filled it with us and loved it well. We settled in but remained unsettled. Something stirred in the deep, gentle at first (as dreams are oft to be), until eventually it overflowed and we could not resist. Simply, we had to go there, wherever 'there' was. Turns out it's everywhere. With gusto and damned determination, we sold it, stored it and moved from our home, and took to the road. This brings us to Here.

Here is a happy life made full by family, by pursuit, by genuine sustenance — not without grit, and beautifully so. In becoming observers to nature's mysterious ways, we allow the space for chance encounter and discovery.  We lean into things of substance slowly: a cup of coffee; a walk through the desert, unkempt and without a destination; a photograph, taken and kept; a day at home or a day out there. Idling long enough that we might remain available to the whim and wildness of the day. These are the keepings of a connected, good life. And so we find ourselves propelled ever onward—ever outward—toward that which makes us well.

If it's the unpaved roads and impossibly vast ranges of the west that expand us, it's the friendliness and tenacity of Ohio that forged us. The Midwest is a curious place—equal parts sagacious and unshowy—and we hope to reflect that in our own 'come as you are' approach to work and life.

With almost two decades of growing up side-by-side, we did just that: we grew up. And it illuminated what we're in it for; documenting and connecting with the raw, the genuine, the stuff that matters most (especially after living through a global pandemic) because without it you could not possibly be or imagine another way.

The road changed us in every possible way. We will never be who we were before we set our sights on that far-off horizon. It showed us who we are, who we always wanted to be and it continues to, even now as we settle back into a home in a town, on a road.