Mother relaxing with her daughter on the sofa while her other daughter does crafts by the bay window in their family living room.
Documentary family photography at home

YOUR FAMILY,

AS THEY ARE.


Maynooth · Lucan · Celbridge · Leixlip & surrounding areas

 

The ordinary stuff is the good stuff.


The cereal on the floor. The favourite pyjamas. The way they climb into your bed in the morning.


None of it feels particularly remarkable while you’re living it. Until it isn’t your everyday anymore.


I photograph families at home, exactly as they are - without posing, matching outfits or trying to turn your life into somebody else’s.


Your home. Your people. Your ordinary day.

 

Toddler playing with wooden building blocks on the sofa, illuminated by a strip of natural sunlight at home.
Mother breastfeeding her newborn baby on the sofa during a natural, documentary family photography session at home.
Young girl with curly red hair sitting on the sofa and doing a puzzle at the table, wearing a beige tulle dress at home.
Close-up photograph of a father gently comforting his crying newborn baby in his arms at home.
Mother tying her daughter’s hair at home while her other daughter plays in the background during an everyday family moment.
Young girl with long blonde hair smiling at her newborn brother as she holds him in her arms in a brown armchair at home.
Your short family film


And because photographs can’t capture the sound of their voice...


Alongside your photographs, I’ll make a one-minute film of your family - movement, voices, laughter and the little sounds of home you don’t realise you’re going to miss.

Black and white close-up photograph of a newborn baby’s tiny hands holding onto their mother’s fingers. Text over it saying Your Family Film
You don’t need to…


Tidy the house. Match the clothes. Ask the kids to behave. Know what to do with your hands.



You don’t need to make your family look like anything. You just need to be yourselves.

Mother and two children making cookies and chatting in their open-plan kitchen while their father holds their newborn baby in the background
Family relaxing together on the sofa as a toddler gives his newborn sister a bottle while their mother holds her, smiling beside them.
Black and white photograph of a toddler pushing his baby sister in her pram through the hallway at home.
We stay home.


Your house is part of your family’s story.



Breakfast in the kitchen. Jumping on the bed. Lego on the floor. Feeding the baby. Making coffee. Playing in the garden.


No parks. No location scouting. No chasing golden hour.


Home is the location.

Maria Ryan-Kadem cuddling her daughter at home while her son jumps playfully nearby, photographed by @spiritandguts.
Hi, I'm MARIA

 

Photographer. Mum. Keeper of far too many photographs.

I’ve spent the last 20 years photographing people professionally, from fashion and portraits to weddings, food and global brands.


Then I became a mother, and the photographs that started to matter most weren’t the perfect ones. They were our life.


So this is the work I want to make now: photographs that show what being a family actually feels like.


And photographs that prove you were there too.

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One session. One price.

Your Family Story

 

€395

Founding Family price


60 minutes together at your home.

· All successful photographs, colour-corrected & print-ready

· Your complete high-resolution gallery

· A 1-2 minute family film

· Personal printing rights

That’s it. Nothing else to choose.


Limited to 16 families each month.

Maynooth · Lucan · Celbridge · Leixlip & surrounding areas

Black and white profile photograph of a father holding his newborn son against his shoulder, with a muslin cloth draped over him.
One day, this won’t be your everyday.

Let’s keep some of it.

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