I live in Vancouver BC, am a mom to two crazy and energetic boys who like to get up before the sun rises, play hockey, eat all my food and supply me with endless hugs and cuddles.

Hello. I'm Justine.

I’m a coffee and book lover, a light chaser and a bit of introvert. I grew up in a small Northern BC town, despised the cold winters so upon graduating,  flew somewhere warm to go to school and run track (hook 'em horns for you Texas fans!). I came back to BC, became a personal trainer and ran a few marathons (yay Boston and New York!), met my husband.. And then finally decided I wanted to became a photographer. Which seems like a complete 180 from the path of Science/Math in University, marathon running and personal training! But ... 

I do remember very vividly burying myself in National Geographic magazines when I was younger. We had boxes and boxes in our basement and I would spend afternoons going through these - fascinated by the stories that images could tell.

As chaotic and messy as it was with a newborn baby at home and 2 very sleep deprived parents, it was also beautiful in it's own way. It might sound crazy, but it was that beautiful and chaotic mess that I wanted to remember. The realness of life and the love. So I started just simply documenting. I also hated the idea of constantly having to tell them to do this or do that. It just seemed the natural way to go. And now looking back at those photos, I LOVE them and what they represent and the memories they bring up.

A lot of that 'why I shoot this way' has carried over to my wedding & family work. I LOVE watching how families interact and documenting those relationships. Trying to show that in photographs, that THIS here is your family is challenging and rewarding and what I'm constantly trying to capture in the images I take.  

My style evolved to what it is today and I can really credit that to having my own family. When my oldest was a baby and I was still learning how to take an actual photo, I realized around the time when he was 6 months old that I was photographing all these set up moments and that really wasn't what our life was like during that time

And growing up, we had a dark room in our house that my dad used - the black and white images he took and developed up on our walls. So photography was always present. But there was still this small part of me that was scared to admit to anyone that what I really wanted to be was a photographer. It would have meant throwing away my expensive degree and fitness background and I credit some of that bravery of just jumping in to my husband who questioned (and bought me my first camera!) why did I not just be a photographer?  I wasn't happy in the career I had chosen and spent all my free time pouring over photography books and art.. So that's what I did! I literally quit my job one day and never looked back.