Hi! I’m Kerry!
I’m a Clarksville TN photographer, military spouse, and mom of three.
My work blends documentary honesty with an editorial eye to create storytelling images that feel timeless while rooted in the real texture of your life right now. As someone well acquainted with the unpredictable rhythm of military life, I understand chaos and tenderness and the way both can live in the same moment. That experience is woven into how I photograph. Nothing has to be perfect. You don’t have to tidy the edges of your life. You just have to show up as you are.
I started photographing people on film when I was 12, eventually earning my BFA in photography. What guides me now comes from years of paying attention — to the way light can shape a story, to families, to connection, to the quiet in-between moments that say more than anything posed ever could.
Twenty-five years behind the lens have shaped a style that blends gentle elegance with honest, emotional storytelling. My work has been published and exhibited, including at the Corcoran Gallery in D.C., but the heart of what I do is simple: documenting real families and the real life unfolding around them.
My hope is that what we create together becomes a small time capsule of your life as it is right now. I’m ready when you are.
What’s Halide?
Silver halide is the light-sensitive crystal in film that makes an image possible. Pairing it with “heart” made sense because my work lives in both places. My formal training grounded in film taught me the technical foundations and sharpened my eye, but years of photographing people have shaped the intuition I lean on just as much.
Halide captures the image. Heart gives it meaning.