I first met Steph when she was pregnant with her second child. Sophie, her first, was about two years old at the time, running around being two years old. I came back when the baby arrived, and then again, and again. By this session, Sophie was around six, and I had watched her grow up through a lens across five different shoots.

Steph and Rob are easy to be around. There is no performance with them. They do their thing, Sophie does hers, and I just follow the light and the moments as they happen. The house feels lived in and warm, and it shows in the photographs.

These kinds of repeat relationships are some of the most meaningful work I do. Watching a family across years, seeing the kids grow taller and the parents grow into each other more. You cannot manufacture that continuity. You just have to keep showing up.