Laura Highberger | Documentary & Storytelling Photographer

Boy wearing mirrored swim goggles floats peacefully in a sunlit swimming pool

Young boy watches as his mother and grandmother prepare ceremonial thread during his Upanayana (sacred thread) ceremony

Young girl joins her grandfather in prayer on the Delaware House floor before the legislative session begins.

Close up portrait of young boy with his pet millipede on his shoulder, looking up at him

Child, mouth agape, plays a dinosaur-themed arcade game beside the image of a roaring Tyrannosaurus rex.

Close-up of a newborn wrapped in a knitted blanket, their tiny body nestled in their father's large hands while grasping his finger.

Father tosses his child high into the air above a crowded outdoor swimming pool as water sprays upward.

Black-and-white photograph of a mother resting beside her sleeping child in a hospital bed, with a visible forearm tattoo reading "F U Cancer."

Hospital chaplain administers the Last Rites at a patient's bedside while a child quietly reads Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles, Angels & Messages from Heaven.

Black-and-white silhouette of two children playing chess across a table as one reaches to make a move in front of a sunlit window.

Museum visitor walks between colorful portraits during the Delaware Art Museum's Martin Luther King Jr. Day exhibition, with a large image of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. filling the adjoining wall.

A young girl sits with her arms crossed and pouts while her mother styles her hair from the couch behind her.

Delaware • Philadelphia • Mid-Atlantic

Hey there!

I’m Laura, a Delaware-based documentary and portrait photographer who loves the art of storytelling. Both a nerd and an artist at heart, I’m a biologist turned photographer turned wife to an Army veteran and mom to five kids, with two Great Danes (and the occasional millipede or caterpillar) rounding out the family. When I’m not photographing clients or my own family’s shenanigans, I’m usually powerlifting, noodling around at my sewing machine, or dabbling in a new language.

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