Natalie Norton shares her challenges when shooting a child's funeral for a friend. It's not always the right time for the camera, but with the family's permission, and for the right friend or family member, your photographs may be cherished.
Natalie Norton writes:
I recently photographed the funeral of a beautiful 16 year old girl. It was the most challenging shoot of my career (times infinity). The work was heart wrenching and overwhelming, horrifying and EXHAUSTIVE and . . . ultimately . . . it was tender, intimate, and astonishingly and inexplicably, beautiful. I left that day completely changed. As a photographer and as a human being.