Hi there! I’m Ana

And even though I not always wanted to have children,

I ended up having three,

and a dog.

May 2004. I'm being wheeled into the delivery room, ready to pop out my first baby after a rough pregnancy. My mind was racing: "What the heck did I get myself into? What if I don’t love him? I don't even know how to hold a baby!"

But then I held him and of course, all doubts disappeared. He was -and still is, despite his hairy legs- perfect.

March 2006. Baby number two arrives, seven (7!) weeks early. The drama continues, but now I'm stressing about whether I could love him as much as my first. (Spoiler: I totally could).

October 2009. By the time the third one came around, I figured they'd be fine since nobody pays attention to the thirds anyway.

(Obviously joking, plus, the third was The Girl and the pregnancy was high risk, I spent 5 months in bed).

Until I became a mother I had always been that “friend with the camera”, so it was only natural that my lens now looked at my children like, all the time. Documenting my children’s childhood became an obsession and my camera started coming with me everywhere.

A few years later, shortly after moving to Munich, my friend Sara asked if I could take some photos of her family, “but you know, those natural unposed shots, like the ones you take of your kids."

My response? "Are you kidding? That'll take me the whole day!"

But I did it, and the results were awesome – a beautiful book for Oma's 80th and another for Sara’s family.

And that's pretty much what I do now: I photograph families just like I photograph my own: naturally, at home, doing their thing and being themselves.

I get to do what I enjoy the most and they get these amazing photo books to relive those moments. Because while we can't literally go back in time, photography gets us pretty darn close.