Hi, I'm Stefani Danch.
I've loved photography since 2003 when I enrolled in a photography class in Perugia, Italy. I stayed in the country for two years, traveling and using my camera to document it all. But, I ended up putting this love on a back burner once I returned to the States. I enrolled in an intensive nursing program at UCSF and became a nurse practitioner specializing in pediatric oncology.
Parents of children receiving chemo would often tell me how much they missed the ordinary moments with their kids; wrestling on the couch, dance parties in the living room, pancakes and sticky syrup fingers.
Once I became a mom myself, this yearning to savor the ordinary moments not only influenced how I mothered, it also influenced how I took photos. Working with sick children was a daily reminder of how fortunate my family is & I wanted to memorialize every moment.
Seven years and three children later, I was diagnosed with T cell Lymphoma. Although the prognosis is excellent, it brings two facts into sharp focus: 1) Life is short and my love for photography can no longer take a backseat & 2) As parents, we need to appear in photos WITH our children. Our children will grow up sifting through thousands of pictures looking for those rare pictures with us, their mothers, fathers, and caregivers.
