There is something special about being intimately invited into people’s spaces, lives and routines in a way that photographs cannot always capture.

Though, truth be told, it is that very specific situational aspect of life that I am most often drawn to in my photography work. Capturing the raw and unposed moments that conspire within the framework of the mundane and attempting to convey the interpretation of that perceived beauty.

Raven is someone I’ve met here in New Mexico who has taught me so much about the caring for a type of animal I, admittedly, have not thought too in depth about aside from eating their eggs for breakfast most days of the week…

However her love and care for her chickens is evident, even in these images, and is a heartwarming thing to witness.

(It should be noted that giving her chickens baths is not actually a regular occurrence, but they were preparing for a chicken show in Arizona the next day)

This is just a small vignette of what have become numerous unexpected moments throughout living on a farm in New Mexico.