Hi, I’m

Amy. 

I am a documentary family and commercial photographer based in the Metro Phoenix Area.

I’m glad to have you here.

For as long as I can remember, my family always had a camera at home. Perhaps it was because that my grandma was a documentary film editor in China, I had the luxury to have my life well documented growing up. I also got the cool opportunity to watch a lot of documentaries that my grandma was working on while playing with some of her scrap films.

We have shelves of photo albums at my parents home. It is still one of my favorite things to flip through those albums and talk about the stories behind each photo. Some photos have started to fade away so my parents recently scanned all of the photos to preserve them. I am so glad that now I get to look at these photos often and show them to my kids without having to travel all the way back to China.

 I grew up and I had my own camera. I went on my own adventures. I went to Europe and I came to the United States. I was trying to absorb and remember as much as I could what this new world looked like. I took a lot of landscape photos.

Then I realized it is the human beings that make things more interesting for me. Especially now that I have kids myself, I’m experiencing plot twists on a daily basis. What a thrill! I’m always taking photos of my family these days. I want to see my life through different lenses and different angles, literally.

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I want to have amazing photographs to help me remember what my life is like and how I feel when I am with my family right now. I want my children to know how much I love them every single day. I want my children to see that while our daily life is nothing too fancy, our life has been a real interesting journey for us all. It’s unlikely that I will forget those once in a life time events in the future. However, I know as a matter of fact that without any documentation, the tender feelings, the seemingly never ending motherhood frustrations, the unexpected chuckles from my daily mundane will definitely fade away. I want to hold onto these fleeting memories for myself and for my children.

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I hope that my kids can carry on the tradition of loving to flip through old photo books.

I hope that every family can share this favorite tradition of mine.  

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Over the years, I have spent a lot of time (and money TBH) taking classes to learn to be a better photographer, artist, and a business owner. However, I have spent even more time to just get in the field, hit the ground running. The best way to learn
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