25Years of experience
47Clients worked with
24Projects completed
5Places travelled
10,000Photos taken
About
PRESERVING YOUR MILESTONES OF LIFE THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY
Over the years it has been my honor, to document many important events in the lives of my clients. From wedding photos, to newborn babies to portraits of growing families, I have always felt that visually preserving these milestones are important work and represent my way of giving.
As time moves on, there are also many important milestones, and documenting a loved one during this time can be a beautiful experience. Whatever location is chosen, whomever cares to participate, some loving memories and images can be created during this thoughtful session.
Creating memories through photography has been my life’s work and I feel that capturing the fullness of one’s life deserves the loving attention.
Every session is different depending on the many factors.
You are welcome to invite family and friends to be there to interface with your family member, or there can simply be you with your loved one. My main focus is to capture the fullness of time.
The storytelling session will provide a documentary, captured in black and white images.
It is my heart’s desire to present a memorable story and I would be honored if you allowed me to document your loved one at this time in their life. I will work with compassion.
– Margot Gibson Photography –
Services
I photograph in black and white as well as color. I go to their homes, albeit, hospice, memory care and assisted living. I provide the families with many photos within a shortened period of time. There are different sessions for difficult settings thus determining the amount of time that is thoughtful to the family member. I provide for you all of the jpgs, or a video of the event and a small memory book if desired.
Blog
5 Dec 2022 / By Margotgibson
The Paradox of Anticipatory Grief
It’s an impossible task. How do you both love someone and grieve them while they’re still here, either physically or mentally (or both)? This is the paradox of anticipatory grief, what you feel when: • You know your child is going to die at some point of the illness with which she was born, but somehow she manages to hang on. You don’t know why you can’t protect her from what the treatments, as well as the disease, are doing to her or how you’ll manage when she’s gone. • Your father or mother or both who loved you is losing the mental sharpness he or she had always drew on to put you in the wrong during arguments. You’d rather have the him you remember than the softened personality that early dementia has given him. • You miss your career in financial services but you couldn’t hand the woman who raised you to a stranger’s care, especially when the cancer has advanced and weakened her. Yet you can’t help missing the variety and social contact of the life you were living before and wonder if you’ll be able to pick up where you left off. At night sometimes, even
30 Nov 2022 / By Margotgibson
A Special Photography Session with Robert Kaplan
To know my dad was to know someone who was insanely positive, all the time. During the occasional ski trip that coincided with rough weather, with snow painfully pelting our frozen faces, my dad would ski up to us with the hugest smile on his face, icicles forming on his mustache, and say “isn’t this GREAT?!” There was nothing that was going to stop him from enjoying a trip he had planned. As we got older, we learned we could that crazy lunatic ski in blizzards alone, opting instead for the comfort of the lodge or motel hot tub. Dad’s optimism was infectious. Which made it all the more difficult to watch him during the battles with illness. Watching him fall into depression was heartbreaking, because it was so not him. Dad worked so hard to never let the little things get him down; living life to the fullest was simply his highest priority. Mom now wears his Chai - the necklace he wore faithfully every day. It’s such an incredibly fitting symbol for him, and what I’m sure connected him so strongly to Judaism which teaches us to celebrate the here and now. L’Chaim: to life. Even the decision