My name is Emelia, but you can call me Emma!

I’m a 23-year-old photographer learning & loving in the mountains of Missoula, Montana. I just moved to The Zoo in July 2025 from Boone, North Carolina.

I’m usually heard before seen, I’ll beat you in a karaoke contest, I want to be a NASCAR driver, I’m a Texas Hold ‘Em hustler, Little Women is my favorite movie, and I discovered who I am and who I want to be in the summer of 2023.

I began taking photos seriously in 2018. Years following, I would pay my friends to model for me in mall parking lots, parents’ garages, and the Blue Ridge Parkway. I had no idea what I was doing, and those pictures are embarrassingly awful. Six years later, I have done over 200 sessions, and my pictures have landed in People Magazine.

My utmost passion is people & to collaborate with them to create things that I wish existed.

Every step I’ve taken has been blessed by the Lord, and every day my feet hit the floor, I know He’s not done with me yet. My goal for life is to fearlessly pursue the talent He has so graciously bestowed upon me.

I would be a sure liar if I were to label myself as “self-taught”. I am a result of the handful of people who have supported me through my victories and defeats. To my people- you know who you are- I am not me without you. Thank you for believing in me no matter what. I love you guys.