Shutter Sisters is a welcoming, inclusive global community of women that share a passion for photography. Over the past five years through shared stories and images we have established committed and meaningful relationships that have encouraged and inspired us to live our creative dreams and be our best selves. Online platforms, mobile sharing, a photography book, and live gatherings have all made up what Shutter Sisters is now; a sisterhood, authentic and true, that transcends even the expansive borders of the web.

Shutter Sisters was born out of my own desire for a caring and collaborative place to belong, because after years of shooting professionally, I hadn’t found one. I was never comfortable in the conversations about camera settings and equipment; instead I longed to make connections based on artistic vision, storytelling and the pure love of photography. That was perhaps the sole purpose of the development of Shutter Sisters and as synchronicity would have it, the entire world of photography began its evolution. At that time women, cameras in hand, forged their own unique path in a powerful movement where shooting from the heart was not only recognized it was celebrated. I’m proud to say that Shutter Sisters has been at the forefront of that movement since the start.

As we continue to grow and move forward as a community, I am delighted to be joining creative forces with Camera Men, in what we’re calling Our Collective, widening the circle of community that share this crazy awesome passion for photography. Another evolution has begun. Onward ho!