about me

“Past certain ages or certain wisdoms, it is very difficult to look with wonder: it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.” ~ Truman Capote

 

Carrie Prewitt specializes in contemporary children’s portraiture. Her photo sessions are conducted at any location of the clients’ choosing, utilizing natural light and true surroundings.

Carrie’s gift is to create timeless, honest portraits of children where they are most comfortable and beautiful – in their own worlds of home, play, and imagination.

Carrie is overjoyed to be back in her hometown of Jackson, TN with her husband and her two young children.

OK, so that’s my official press release. Since you’re taking time to read this, I’m assuming you want to know the really important stuff about me:

• For me, photography is more than just showing up and taking some pictures. For me, it’s a memory – a connection – a moment. I enjoy spending time with your children, really trying to understand what makes them smile or cry. I want the pictures from our sessions to become your treasured memory of how your child truly was, on that day, in that moment. I want to explore with your child texture, light, shadow, movement, quiet – and allow your pictures to truly reflect our time together.

• Some of my best pictures come from moments when the child’s mother is saying, “Don’t do that! Look at the camera! Don’t lie down on the ground! Stop making faces!” If we allow our children to behave, undirected, as children, their true souls will shine through. The very best picture of my children when my daughter was an infant came out of a moment just like that. I was so frustrated because my son would not cooperate and kept being so wild and silly with his sister. But the picture that came out of that moment is still one of my favorites.

• I eat english muffins almost every morning.

• I am a classically trained coloratura soprano and taught classical voice for 18 years. I taught voice and choir at Lambuth University until it closed in 2011.

• We have two cats named Abelard and Heloise.

• My hair used to be straight but after my son was born it turned curly (read: unruly).

• “Harold and Maude” was always my favorite movie. But I watched it recently and I am no longer sure of this…

• I am currently reading “Dances with Dragons” by George R.R. Martin. Yay for Game of Thrones!

• My son will only eat pizza if it has pineapple on it.  My daughter loves anything with Nutella on it.

• My husband has built lots of the furniture in our house. He’s a fantastic woodworker! *hint hint* (Hey, when are you going to get to that chest of drawers?)

• I am so lucky to be where I am today, with a beautiful family – immediate and extended – all around me, to live by a little pond with ducks in it on the same street where I grew up (they aren’t the same ducks though), and to take pictures of lovely people.

So now you know the real me – aren’t you glad you kept reading past the press release?