I’m not here to take a picture of your family. I’m here to help you disconnect from everything that doesn’t matter, and facilitate connection, adventure and FUN with your family. I’m not here to bring on pressure, I’m here to take it away.
I’m not here to make you beautiful, I’m here to show you that you already are.
hi! I'm Abby,
My journey with photography goes back 25 years, and starts...with the GAMEBOY CAMERA. What I wouldn't give to hold that piece of gold in my hand just one more time. My goodness, the absolute THRILL. From there I continued with the cheapest point and shoot I could afford and would bring it with me everywhere taking awful blurry photos that I claimed were "Artsy"- hey we all start somewhere right. My first actual education with photography started in a dark room in high school. I continued my passion into college where I studied not only the mechanics of photography, but the art of composition and style. I finished with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art from Marymount Manhattan College in 2010. I have studied at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan, and I am a member of the Professional Photographers of America Community where I continue to learn as the craft changes and expands.
My passion for photography often branches out into different art projects and obsessions, but my professional work is rooted in genuine family moments. I am not a fly on the wall- but I try not to micromanage. I engage, I play, I sing and dance (not well) and I try to capture the true essence of you and your family exactly how you are. For me, photography is about connection, and that includes connection between subject and photographer. I want you to feel comfortable and I want you to feel like you are LIVING these memories, and forget that I am sneakily capturing them.
Booking with me will be interesting. The dad jokes will be heavy. I will fall at least once, but better me than you. You will all be deliriously happy after leaving me, and then fall effortlessly into your beds and sleep for five days. You will wake up to an emailed sneak peek, and you will cry, and then I will cry, and then in (3-4) weeks you will cry again when you receive your full gallery. The cycle then continues the following year when you hire me again.
Who is she?
A fan of the Macabre, the spooky and the weird. While I edit your sweet babes on my MacBook I watch endless 80s slashers while sipping Liquid IV and Cold Brew. I love my VHS collection of Cult Classics, Fangoria Magazine, Stephen King, and a good trashy thriller paperback. I love music, art, singing in the shower, singing in the car, singing to embarrass my kid or singing to make your kid smile. I am a wife to a pretty dope Scenic Painter, and a mother to an equally dope little chick who has completely changed my perspective of the world. I love finding inspiration in the Art of LIFE and try to put my own spin on it.
Abby E. Haight Sole Owner and Sole Operator of Love Haight Photography
All photos of Abby taken by Erica Schultz Photography