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People aren’t afraid of forgetting the moment. They’re afraid of forgetting how the moment felt. Which is why Talia has paired her passion for photography with her heart for helping families capture the feeling for nearly two decades. “I crave creating light-driven images that make you stop and take a breath while transcending you back to that exact moment,” Kite says.

We watched Talia’s own transcendence as she flipped through one of her annual albums. She paused on a page of four film photos, taken on a summer day at home. Her daughters in their swimsuits. Her son playing in a pool. The girls peering outside, framed by a window. "They feel nostalgic and personal and real and perfectly them in this season of our lives," she reflects. For Talia, creating a photograph is about presence. It's about revisiting the small, candid moments that remind us of the feeling.

“[Pictures] are the only thing in this world that we get to physically go back and look at to take us to a moment in time.”

- Talia Kite

Talia confesses that as a mom of three, making time to take photos can feel a little overwhelming. So after spending more than half of her life creating photographs for other families, she decided to make Sundays hers. She carries her camera around, capturing her family’s seemingly ordinary moments. Her baby's hair growing in, the paint on their little belly buttons, the shadows they create as they twirl in unnecessarily large tutus. “When I take time to create photographs for myself, I think about how these images are not only for me, but for my kids and hopefully for generations to come. I want my kids to see themselves in all their beauty and the way I love every movement they make,” she says.

Printing the photos allows her to slow down. “Life is not this big grand thing, but all these little moments,” Talia tells us, and curating all the fragments—all the small moments that happen at the speed of a shutter—turns them into real, tangible chapters of a story. “You’re able to touch the image, feel it, and remember.”

“Photographers are the family historians,” she says. “The ones who must put in the effort to prove that these small moments matter.” Talia appreciates that at the end of each year, she has a big coffee table book that her family can hold—the weight of their year in images. For this storyteller, the proof is in print.

Start behind the lens. When someone takes a photo of you without you knowing it, you tend to love it so much more, right? When the moment is captured versus just the person, it changes things. Focusing on the moments when your family isn’t paying attention gives you a picture of your life that you’re more likely to go back to and enjoy. 

Get into the right mindset. In the same way you wouldn’t put a kiss on the cheek or a bedtime story with your kids on your to-do list, don’t make a photo album another bullet point to cross off. Instead, view it as a ritual—an emotional act you get to do to relive and remember—and the motivation will follow. 

Ask yourself this question. Do these images pull me back into a particular space and time? When narrowing down which photos to include in your album, be intentional. Choose the strongest images that truly capture the feeling of the moment. This will make every page feel meaningful and tell the story of that season.