HEIRLOOM
MOTHERHOOD
I see you. We are kindred spirits, you and me. I know all the ways your heart whispered to the heavens for a child you had yet to even hold. How you've been captivated by a tiny human since your eyes first met their precious gaze. How they have brought havoc to your home, your body, but most importantly wrecked you with the most impossible love. I recognize it in you because I've seen it in myself too. We are forever changed.
It is because of this I find my greatest honor in documenting this fleeting season for your family. Because, sadly, littles don't keep, so we must preserve these moments while we can.The way their hands reach knowingly for yours. The way they nuzzle into your neck, the perfect fit. The way, simply by being "mama," you, too, are being transformed into all you were made to become.
A Note from Nikki
Dear, Mama
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the Nikki Santerre
Motherhood Experience
Once you’ve had an opportunity to enjoy your digital collection, we will begin to chat about your heirloom options! Clients have an opportunity to select curated tangible heirlooms, including albums, canvases, frames art prints, and heirloom print boxes.
Heirloom Curation
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Congratulations, mama! It’s time to get together and celebrate this new little life you’re so eager to meet. Sessions are either scheduled at home (for a more lifestyle newborn approach) or on location (for beautiful and organic maternity imagery). Full digital gallery collections are typically delivered within three weeks of the session date, and an heirloom guide will be sent to you to help you determine how to make the most of your images.
We celebrate
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Due to the nature of maternity and birth, scheduling is done specifically around each family’s tentative baby timeline. Once we select an appropriate window for your session, you will receive planning resources (including a personally tailored styling guide) and information to make your session simple and seamless (because you have enough to stress about in planning for your newest little love...your photos will be a joyful process and won’t feel like a burden!).
We reserve your date
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You’ve seen the evocative motherhood imagery we produce and you can’t imagine not having this fleeting season with your baby documented in such an intimate way.
First, we become officiaL
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It’s my own journey through motherhood that allows me to photograph yours with such tenderness and truth. I know firsthand how these seasons can be both our undoing and our becoming—how they stretch us, shape us, and sometimes make it hard to see ourselves clearly in the midst of it all. That’s why I approach each session with deep empathy, creating space for you to simply be while I document the quiet beauty that’s unfolding. My hope is to deliver a collection of images that reflects not just what this season looks like, but what it feels like—that there can be something lovely made from the chaos— and to show you how extraordinary you are, maybe most especially when you can’t yet see it yourself.
Motherhood: Our Being & Our Becoming
You deserve to see the beauty in both
"When I was unsure, she was confident. When my baby was fussy, she was ever patient and caring.
During an emotionally overwhelming time, inviting someone into your space to photograph your still sort of puffy face and tired eyes can feel like the last thing you want to do. But it was the best thing we could have done.
Becoming a mother has been one of the sweetest, most rewarding experiences of my life and I am forever blessed to have the breathtaking images that she created for us!"
“During a time when I didn't feel myself or my best physically, Nikki made me feel so beautiful."
Sweet words from annamarie akins, photographer & Motherhood Client
“You envision documenting your first few days at home with baby in their light-filled nursery you’ve spent the last nine months curating.”
“Your desire is to capture your relationship with your precious baby, more-so than have your baby photographed posed in a basket.”
“You’ve dreamed your whole life of this moment, this season, and believe you’ve become the best version of yourself as your child’s mother.”
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You might be a Nikki Santerre mama if…
Today, you can implement my exact process for creating nostalgia with a system for photographing, printing, and cataloging images using the film medium.
Hey Mama, You can also learn from Nikki:
Do you want to learn to take your own, timeless photos of your children without them getting lost on your phone?
discover this step by step guide to
PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR FAMILY ON 35MM FILM
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Ready to begin your heirloom motherhood experience?
