I am honored to be included in a part of people's history. I have the trust and license to capture these stories in images. I love it! And I consider it a great gift to have passion for my work.
www.cshook.com
Serving the Bay Area
San Francisco, CA
My work is about personality, character and moments. I treasure the unexpected and the honest. Pouty lips, wild laugher, shy glances... I hope my work speaks for itself as you look through this website.
I began as a photojournalist 15 years ago and that art of story telling is still the grounding of my sensibilities. I went on to graduate studies in fine art photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and expanded my mind enormously. Next I assisted some of the most renowned photographers in the country while working in Los Angeles and learned the real nuts and bolts of commercial photography. After a few years of doing commercial and magazine work, I started my own family. As every mother knows, that changes everything! In 1992 I moved to Orinda and changed my focus to photographing families and weddings. I found that my work is more touching, more personal and more valued than it could ever be in the commercial world. I have the great privilege of being a part of people's lives. I love to see families come together for weddings. It's a joy to watch mothers who came for maternity portraits come in with their newborns, and then babies, and then siblings. I look forward someday to photographing the wedding of someone I photographed from the beginning of their life! |
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