Hi, I’m Paula

THE PERSON, BEHIND THE LENS

When you enter my Thornbury maternity and newborn studio, you’re stepping into a warm, patient space run by someone who understands how precious and personal the photographs we’re creating may be to you.

My own path to motherhood hasn’t unfolded at all as I once expected it would. That experience has shaped the way I see the families who step in front of my camera and given me a deep understanding that your photographs may represent far more than a beautiful image of a growing bump or a new baby.

For some families, they tell the story of months or years of waiting and quiet hope behind those two lines on a pregnancy test.
Maybe your story includes countless rounds of IVF.
Maybe it includes unimaginable loss.
Maybe your road to parenthood looked nothing like the one you imagined.
Maybe pregnancy arrived easily.
And maybe there was just that one Tinder date!

Every family’s story is different. Whatever has brought you here, I feel privileged to photograph the anticipation of pregnancy, those first days with your newborn and all the little milestones that follow.
For me, the photographs that matter aren’t about elaborate sets, dozens of props or whatever happens to be trending on social media this year. They’re often found in the smallest details. The curve of your baby bump. Wispy newborn hair and milk lips. Tiny fingers wrapped around yours. The way your partner looks at you while you’re holding your baby.
I know how easily something you waited so long for becomes part of everyday life… my job is to make sure you have photographs to remember what it felt like at the very beginning.