You might be wondering why family photos are so important. Is it really that big of a deal if I take regular pictures of my family? I certainly think it is! Let me give you a few thoughts on why I think family photos should be important to you!
Rememberies
Did I just make up a word? Why yes, yes I did! How much of your childhood or life can you recall simply from memory? For me, it’s very little. Especially when it comes to the very early years of my kids lives. When you’re in the thick of motherhood and have little rest, it can be hard to remember those sweet details of your kids growth and change over the years. And, boy, do they grow so fast! However, if I have a picture in front of me, all those memories come flooding back and I can often recall more details that I thought I could. Pictures are a wonderful, visual way to remember our memories. Our “rememberies”.
Love and Acceptance
It’s a fact that when children see themselves in photographs with their family they feel loved and accepted! This is a concept we are constantly working on with our kids. Each of them is so uniquely different and we want them to know they are loved and accepted. Not just by us, but by others around them. Our desire is for them to know that they are accepted into our family unit for exactly who they are and that we don’t wish for them to be any other way. Photos can easily showcase those differences and make this concept easier to process. Once we can teach love and acceptance our own family, then it’s going to be easier for our kids to see and accept differences in the people around them.
Visual Legacy
Family photography creates a visual legacy for your family. We’ve all lost someone very important to us. How much do we cherish the images of those we’ve lost? My kids love seeing pictures of my husband I as we’ve grown up (no matter how embarrassing some of those might be). They learn about our history, which also includes family members that they might not ever have met. We then get the opportunity to tell their story through pictures.
Maybe our life in pictures is not necessarily about someone we’ve lost, but someone that we can’t be with because they are physically far from us. Seeing pictures of family and friends that live thousands of miles away keeps them front of mind. It helps us to remember to love on them even while they are so very far away from us and fuels our desire to be together with them again to create even more memories.
We’re not always going to have our family together forever, but photos can bring us together time and time again. Family photography can ultimately give us hope for the future. To see our place in a bigger story. To love and accept one another.
Maybe you don’t have the capacity to take a family photography project on by yourself. That’s ok! That’s why there are professional photographers in the world, like me, that would love to help you make family photography a priority and bring your family’s visual legacy to life!
