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© MILK AND HANNAH 2015-2019

I’m the woman behind the camera, Hannah. My 9 year old son took this photo near the biggest body of water we have in Columbus, Ohio, where we live- together with his sisters, and my husband, their father, Drew. I’m big on “no bullshit” and emotional investment. I don’t do surface level relationships, I’m all in or out. Slightly dramatic, I love a debate, and this work here is self-taught. Because I firmly believe I can do absolutely anything I put my mind to. So can you. I’m very tall, just under 6 feet, the bun puts me at 6’ 2”. I’m big and bad and meaty and luscious and soft and gentle and sensitive. My circles stay small, but I’m happy to have a big space here with you all to create and share. So far I’ve killed 2 fiddle leaf figs, but I do make a killer pour over decaf coffee every single day. My identity is wrapped up very much in my role as wife and mother right now, and what’s left was stamped photographer and then daughter and sister (I’m one of 6- and protective as the oldest. Don’t fuck with them. I’m looking at you youngest brother’s girlfriend. ) and friend. Happy Friday. It’s nice to meet you. Tell me something huge about yourself in 10 words or less down there in the comments. I want to hear about YOU.

A happy Mama and a heartbeat.

Prenatal Appointment Goddess.

Middle sister, baby sister, blood, sweat, tears.

I feel like I spent so many years trying to force myself into a life path. I can remember being 16, and all my friends had these serious ideas about college and who they wanted to be when they grew up. What they wanted to accomplish. And that has just never been who I am. I applied to art school in Pittsburgh, but spent the whole tour checking myself out in a hotel mirror wrapped in a white towel. We only had grey towels at home, and damn it, if white isn’t my color! A baby at 19 - after 3 months with my boyfriend, whose sister caught us fucking on her couch while her son was napping - I conceived Cade that time on the sofa. I had no job and no plan and no idea how hard life was going to be. And then I married that man who should have answered his phone that time it rang while we were fooling around on his sister’s sofa- it was his sister texting and letting him know she’d be home for lunch. And then we made Porter, another masterpiece, and then I fell into this world of birth work like a rocket after I watched the birth of my nephew- the second son of the sister who caught us doing it on her couch when I conceived Cade - and it was that moment that changed my life, too. It lead me into this work. And here I sit. After time away last year, and a dream of maybe going into commercial work, and then getting swept back into the ocean I chose to swim inside of in the first place. I’m Hannah, I never have a plan, but one thing is for certain, I love this work. I’m meant to do it- and I feel so damn lucky that my path of total chaos, confusion, poverty, and horrible, irresponsible choices led me here, to you. ♥️

Here we are searching for something greater... what is greater than this? Heaven and angel, right here.

We all had been notified Nicole’s water had broken in a flash not 10 minutes earlier and all busted through the doors of our own houses to get to her. I live closest and arrived first. Her body was VERY clearly pushing during contractions. I panicked a little- I knew by her sounds and by her body language that the baby was very, VERY, VERY close to be being born. “Nicole, can you feel your baby?” She felt inside herself and said she could, leaning forward and asking “I think so!! Is that him?!” I leaned into the shower to get a better look and water from the shower head dropped into my hair and slid down my face. At the tip of her finger was the head of her son. I leaned back out of the bathtub and grabbed my phone off the floor beside me. I frantically texted the midwives that I was there- that she was “pushy as fuck”. They came running up the stairs soon after like the super women they are and minutes later, Smith was born.
I can picture these moments in my head like it was yesterday. The sound of the running shower water and the feeling of the linoleum under my knees. The look on her face when she realized she had done it and the moments after filled with tears and hugs and photos and videos and so much love. So grateful.

Happy International Womxn’s Day to all you badass Womxn running the world. Take no shit, play no games, keep leading.

In my world, everyday is International Womxn’s Day. May we use our womxn power to light on fire the policies and institutions that are racist, sexist, discriminatory, bigoted, anti-Semitic and just plain fucked.

Updated availability through June. ♥️