Welcome to Diana Joyce Photography, LLC.

Documentary and lifestyle photographer serving clients in the philadelphia area

Documenting your family’s everyday moments through photography

Do you ever want to stop time?  If you’re anything like me, you do. Kids arrive in your life and immediately start to grow and change with each passing day. Your parents, siblings, and friends — even your employees or clients — grow and change in their own ways.  The days can feel so long, but the years are so short. Right? The most important moments can be so big, or so very small.  Big or small, they’re always fleeting.  How can we stop time? 

As a mom, I especially get it.  In fact, I cultivated my documentary-style approach to photography in my own life, just desperately trying to slow down long enough to create a record of our family’s various stages and changes. Nothing is more priceless to me than documenting what I call “heirloom moments.” 

Photographing heirloom Moments

Heirloom, noun. A family possession handed down from generation to generation.

Moment, noun. An indefinitely short period of time; an instant. The present time or any other definite period or stage, as in a course of events. Importance or consequence. A particular time or period of success, excellence, fame, etc.

To me, heirloom moments are pictures that contain stories that you want to preserve and cherish— a single story or a multitude. Always beautiful but perhaps also complex or hilarious or free-spirited or poignant. Always fleeting. Always revealing the art hidden inside of the everyday.

LET’S DOCUMENT + PRESERVE TOGETHER with a customized photography session

I would be honored to work with you to document and preserve your family or business “heirloom moments.”  The look exchanged between two parents, the kids’ hands, the toes, the freckles, the missing teeth, those extraordinary eyelashes.  For businesses, the same ideas apply.  As I built my career in the non-profit sector over the years, I understand the importance of owning and telling your own stories, and leading with as much diligence as authenticity and honesty.  What is the “behind the scenes” view of how you build connection with your customers?  Let the world see the people, the care, the tools of your trade, and the emotion that goes into what you do every day to serve your clients and customers.   You will stand out as a leader giving an authentic “peak behind the curtain” of formal marketing perfection.

HOW to get started

It’s so important to me to get to know you and your family or business so that I can best authentically document your stories and heirloom moments.  I’d love to meet you! Click below to start capturing something beautiful.

 

 

Art is Inside of the Everyday

The everyday is art, worthy of our time, consideration, attention and preservation. Warts and all. (There are always warts. We’re only human, after all. That’s the most interesting part.)