Hey there! I'm Maggie Rae...
“That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject,
you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.”
— Dorothea Lange
 
 
I've been taking pictures professionally for nearly two decades now. (Which honestly, I want to know when I became the adult in the room?)
I've photographed weddings, babies arriving, new businesses, people making art, people making trouble, and people figuring out who the hell they're becoming. - and I, right along with them.
I grew up in Alabama, spent a decade moving around the country, and eventually found my way back to Birmingham. I've spent most of my adult life building a creative career without a particularly clear blueprint for how to do it, but somewhere along the way I realized it was the people that kept me here.
This career has brought me into rooms and conversations I couldn't have imagined. The relationships I've made and the stories I've had the honor of witnessing have truly fueled this inspired heart, and have changed me forever.
Participating in some of the most profound moments in people's lives has been the honor of a lifetime.
I understand the world by dissecting how I am in relationship to it- being your photographer heals me every time I turn the camera on.
I consider myself a documentary photographer, that was raised on cinematic aesthetics. I think photographs can both tell a story and also be held as pieces of art. I think life IS art.
Thank you for being on this journey called life with me,
I cant wait to leave star dust everywhere.
Xx,
Maggie
 
"The meaning of life...
is just to be, alive." - Alan Watts
 
Photography, for me, is relational.
Not between the camera and subject, but human to human.
That's why trust is the single most fundamental element in 'people' photography.
My single objective is to give you space and safety to exist.
HOW you exist is the gift. And it's just my job to see it.
I believe photography is an act of attention.
We photograph the things we don't want to lose. The people we love. The things we're building. The bodies we're living in. The moments we don't yet know will matter.
A photograph is more than a picture of what happened.
It's evidence that it happened at all.
I was here.
We were here.
This mattered.
"How wonderful to be who I am, made out of earth and water, my own thoughts, my own fingerprints — all that glorious, temporary stuff."
 
- MARY OLIVER