Our hospital based program was designed by our founder with fifteen prior years of experience in the Biosciences. 

Since 2006 we have paired with Child Life Specialists to identify families for complimentary portrait sessions in the children's hospital setting.

Our mission is to provide complimentary professional portrait sessions to photo document the courage, determination and fight of these children versus their diagnosis.

To date we have documented over 7,000 families and have begun to obtain qualitative and quantitative data on the outcomes the work provides.

Abstract:  Art is being increasingly appreciated for its healing capacity in pediatric medicine. However, while mediums like music and painting have already been widely integrated into children’s health institutions across the nation, photography is an artform that is greatly understudied in its application to medicine. As a non-profit organization with a 17-year history of providing free in-hospital/in-hospice photography sessions to the families of children with life-impacting illnesses, we set out to evaluate the therapeutic capacity of this intervention. Individuals having received Moment by Moment Photography’s services from June 2022 to January 2023 were invited to complete a five-question survey assessing the nature and quality of their photography session and the resulting photographs they received. All but one of the 177 participants found the photographs impactful, and the overwhelming majority (95.5%) of participants rated the value of the photographs as high as possible (5/5 on a Likert scale). Further, a dozen themes, including love, share, connect, and fight, among others, were identified that articulate the diversity of ways that “impact” manifested in families. Together, these results clearly support the benefit of photography as a legacy making and therapeutic medium.