PHOTOGRAPHY

PRAISE

Thank you, Koa, for coming to shoot these exquisite photos. How rare to feel so seen, met and called forth... your gift goes beyond the creation of images and into the art of soul making. Such a gift to work with you.” — Carl

“Koa is a true artist soul and absolutely incredible to work with.” —Leila

“My photography sessions with Koa are unlike any other I've had (and as a business owner with an online presence, I've done a lot of photoshoots).” — Becca

“Shooting with Koa is northing short of purely mythical.” — Ariella

“We love our wedding photos with all our hearts, and will cherish them for life.” — Jackie & Olin

ABOUT

As an artist, Koa strives to reveal the essence of who and what she finds herself in conversation with. She documents with presence to connect, evoke and reflect the beauty and light that she sees in spirit and the world.

When Koa was eight she found a disposable camera. Holding it up to her eye, at that moment the whole world changed. She realized that the universe spoke to her in a language of light and color, and that she could speak back through photography.

From that first disposable she started carrying a camera, often two, with her everywhere. Koa shot film and learned how to develop her own in the darkroom. With the eventual rise of digital photography, she continued to learn.

Her profession began in 2010 when asked to photograph an event, then a wedding, then a portrait session. Quickly photography moved from a hobby to her main trade and income source. Aside from one darkroom class in high-school, she is self-taught through experience.

Koa has worked professionally as an international photojournalist as well as a wedding, event, maternity, family and soul essence portrait photographer.

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GALLERIES

small collections of moments revealed

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CLIENTS

For the Wild

Contributing Photographer

Fibershed

8 years as Contributing Photographer + Writer

Black Mountain Circle

Resident Photographer

Living in the Light of Rare Diseases

2 years as Contributing Photographer + Writer

Allegra Entertainment & Events

7 years Architectural, Lighting, Event Photographer

Summer Search

4 years Event Photographer

PUBLICATIONS

Women and Nature | 2024

Fibershed | 2014 - 2024

Black Mountain Circle | 2020

Living in the Light of Rare Diseases | 2017 - 2019

Champions Book | 2019

Limitless Book | 2018

Loam Magazine | Resilience Issue 2018

For the Wild 2017 For the Wild Report

For the Wild | Call of the Forests Documentary, Alaska 2017

Inverness Almanac Volume II | 2016

Edition Local | 2015

Good Times Magazine | 2012

Via Magazine for AAA | 2011

SF Bay Guardian Newspaper Cover | 2010