IN PLAY: A Personal Project

I've started a personal project called In Play – documenting baseball life, mostly. It’s about witnessing these boys in a fleeting stage of life, where play serves as both an anchor and a release. The series chronicles them as they grow both physically and emotionally, capturing the tension between the carefree nature of play and the subtle weight of growing older.

Through the game, I watch their bodies grow stronger, their movements become more deliberate, and their sense of self take shape. It’s a study on the duality of the weight of growing up, set against the lightness of being entirely absorbed in the pitches, the swings, the game.

Baseball has become an all-consuming presence for us, shaping the pace and texture of our family life. As a mother and a photographer, I find myself pulled into the ebb and flow of practices, games, and the quiet moments in between, when the joy and intensity of play linger in the air.

In Play is a celebration of that intensity, of the freedom that sports offer these boys, and of the fleeting nature of this stage in their lives.

Through these images, I hope to convey not only the unique freedom they find when they step onto the diamond but also the deep, transformative power of play.

Here are some current favorite images from the project so far — shot on HP5, Portra 400 and TMAX 400 film:

Personal work is so, so important. I've been working my way through The Artist's Way a second time (this time I'm being more intentional and working through it within the 12 week time frame). It's been such a good motivation to keep shooting personal work, to keep exploring ideas that I'm interested in. 

If you're wanting a little creative motivation, sign up for The Film Roll Project, which is a FREE guided project I've created. It's structured in a way to guide/prompt you through shooting a roll of film over a 2 week period of time.

It's a little passion project that I'm really excited about —definitely sign up if you're in a creative rut!