FULL-SERVICE FAMILY
ARCHIVE STUDIO
FOR THE STORIES WORTH PRESERVING
WE LEAVE EVIDENCE EVERYWHERE!
In handwriting, recipes, keepsakes, and stories told so many times everyone knows when to laugh. In the disorganized photographs on our phones, home movies we haven’t watched in years, and the boxes we’ve inherited from people who came before us.
Evidence of Being
is about keeping a record of it.
I help families bring order and context to the evidence they already have, document the life happening now, and preserve the stories that belong with it.
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HOW CAN I HELP YOU PRESERVE YOUR STORY?
FAMILY ARCHIVING /
THE EVIDENCE YOU ALREADY HAVE
yOUR FAMILY HISTORY, ORGANIZED & PRESERVED
Family history has a way of accumulating everywhere: boxes of photographs, old albums, home movies, hard drives, letters, documents, heirlooms, and collections no one quite knows what to do with.
I provide full-service family archiving to bring clarity and organization to what you already have.
From archival-grade scanning and professional digitization to collection organization, photo management, heirloom documentation, archival-quality storage, and preservation planning, I can help turn a scattered collection into an archive your family can actually use.
I sort and organize your photographs, documents, home movies, and other family materials while documenting the names, dates, relationships, and stories connected to them. You’re left with a clear, organized collection where you can actually find what you’re looking for and understand what you have.
ORGANIZATION & DOCUMENTATION
I professionally digitize photographs, negatives, slides, home movies, and other family media, then organize the resulting files so they’re easy to find, view, and share. You receive high-quality digital copies along with a preservation plan for protecting both your digital files and the originals.
DIGITIZATION & PRESERVATION
I photograph and document the objects, collections, and keepsakes that carry your family’s history, including the stories of who they belonged to and why they mattered. You receive a visual and written record that preserves that history whether you keep the physical objects, pass them on, or eventually let them go.
HEIRLOOMS & FAMILY HISTORY
PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMS /
THE EVIDENCE YOU'RE STILL MAKING
YOUR LIFE,
AS IT ACTUALLY IS
I create documentary photography and films that preserve your real life. From everyday family stories and sensory-sensitive sessions to personal documentary projects and legacy films, the focus is on the details that make a life recognizable as your own.
I believe the photographs you care about most may not be the ones where everyone was looking at the camera, they'll be the ones that show you what it was like to be there.
I sit down with you (or someone you love) for a guided, filmed conversation about their life, memories, and the stories they want remembered. I turn that interview into a documentary film, using family photographs and home movies to help tell the story.
LEGACY FILMS
I create documentary-style photographs for small brands and businesses by capturing the people, process, space, products, and details behind the work. You receive a library of natural, story-driven images to use across your website, social media, marketing, and press.
SMALL BRANDS & BUSINESSES
I spend time with you and photograph your life as it actually happens, without posing every moment or asking everyone to perform for the camera. The result is a collection of photographs that shows your people, relationships, routines, and the little details of this season of your life.
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
You don’t need professional equipment or archival experience to preserve your family’s story. My workshops and classes teach practical ways to document the life happening around you and take better care of the record you’re already creating.
Learn how to document your life, organize your photographs, preserve your family history, and create a record that lasts.
It’s about knowing what to document now, what to preserve for later, and how to do both well.
LEARN TO PRESERVE WHAT MATTERS TO YOU
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
An eight-week photography series for kids who want to learn how to make photographs, not just take them. Students will explore camera basics, light, composition, perspective, documentary photography, creative experimentation, editing, and visual storytelling while developing their own way of seeing the world. The intensive culminates in a personal photography project and a finished collection of work.
Learn how to organize, clean up, and protect your digital photo collection using Apple Photos. We’ll cover duplicates, albums, people, dates, search tools, file organization, and backups so your photographs are easier to find, enjoy, and preserve.
Learn how to sort, document, photograph, and preserve inherited objects, collections, letters, recipes, clothing, and keepsakes so you can keep the stories even when you can’t keep everything.
HI, I'M SUZY!
I’m a photographer by practice, a storyteller by instinct, and a professional collector of evidence that we were here.
A late-diagnosed autistic woman raising a handful of children, I’ve known grief through both child death and pregnancy loss. Those experiences have shaped the way I understand love, loss, memory, and the strange significance ordinary things can take on over time.
Most of my life has been spent paying attention to people and the traces we leave behind. What we remember. What we collect. What gets passed down. What becomes important only after enough time has gone by.
Professionally, my background spans more than fifteen years of photography and filmmaking, along with home organization, archival study, and birth and death support. These all come back to the same fascination: people, their stories, and what remains of them.
Evidence of Being is where all of my passions come together.
It’s a place for preserving people and their stories, bringing order to the pieces they leave behind, and paying attention to the evidence of being.
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