In this life, if you’re very fortunate, you stumble across a friend who gets to knows EVERYTHING about you– yet STILL loves you, is by your side through thick & thin–and despite time and distance, remains loyal through it all. That friend for me is Misti Horner.

We met in a middle school English class when, during a severe bout of the common cold (and me sneezing every five seconds), she graciously gave me Winnie the Pooh stickers to decorate the large box of tissues sitting on my desk🤣

From that day on, we were two peas in a pod, attending every dance, football game and ski trip, joined at the hip. Everyone knew us as “Kim & Mim,” and our senior class even voted us as “Inseparable Friends.” 15 years later, here we are. Very different people, with sweet little boys to call our own. So you can imagine how I reacted when she asked me to photograph her & her son Elliot. Every emotion felt, I was more than honored to tell their story. To document her deep love for him. 
And what I LOVED about this location– not only was it a gorgeous field in the middle of western Pennsylvania, every image was taken on her great-grandmother’s property where her family had lived and farmed for GENERATIONS. It doesn’t get much more meaningful than that.  (10.25.19)