Children truly are the light of the world. They wiggle, coo and smile their way into our hearts, and make us create special prayers of immeasurable gratitude for their tiny beings. As well, its a beautiful thing when their little glows are given the opportunity to reach others, far and wide.
Heather Larkin, inspired by little beauties, created an everlasting moment for many little ones, filled with magic.
How did she do so?
I’m glad you asked.
A recent article by Terri Peters of today.com explores the photography business of
Larkin, a Georgia- based photographer. Her business is called Fairyography, and she enjoys photographing fairy princesses.
The amazement behind her business is the fact that the beauty she’s capturing lies in the eyes of our most special fairies, little girls who are faced with childhood illnesses or trauma. The loss of two young girls she’d once photographed inspired an annual contest that gives a child facing a medical or genetic condition, or have suffered trauma abuse, the opportunity to win a photo session, print package and photo book, donated by Larkin. She calls the sessions Sabrina Hartley- Burke and Ava Jane Gibson Memorial Princess Sessions, in their honor.
Through her photography business, Fairyography, Heather Larkin dresses children in beautiful, make-believe costumes and photographs them playing pretend in fairy tale scenes, dressed up as fairy princesses or storybook characters.
But after two of her clients later died — one of pediatric brain cancer and one of a heart condition — the Georgia-based photographer realized that the greatest gift she could give families struggling with childhood illness or trauma was a set of photos that captured their child’s beauty and innocence.
So Larkin created the Sabina Hartley-Burke and Ava Jane Gibson Memorial Princess Sessions, a yearly contest she holds to find families to gift with her images. Each August, friends and family members nominate children who have a medical or genetic condition, or have suffered trauma or abuse, to win a photo session, print package and photo book, donated by Larkin in memory of her former clients.
“When Sabina died, it was heartbreaking for me. I attended her funeral and sent images (of my shoot with her) for her parents to use in the service. They sent me a note later on that said, ‘You will never know how much these images mean to us — they’re all we have left of her,'” Larkin told TODAY Parents. “As heartbreaking as it was for me — it was worse for her parents. And, I realized it’s worse for those people who go through all of this and have nothing to remember from the happy times with their child.”
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