Some Couples Have
Baby Showers.
They Summoned Beelzebub.
Just your average maternity shoot — with less pink and more pentagrams.
I’ve always loved passion projects — but my “why” shifted. I stopped waiting for approvals or budgets and just started creating the ideas that keep me up at night. They don’t feel like work anymore; they feel like therapy with strobes.
So when Lama & Scotty called right before their due date asking if I had any ideas for a shoot, boy, did I.
Addams Family Values has always been one of my all-time favorites — funny, grim, ridiculous, and somehow wholesome. There’s a baby launched off a roof, a summer-camp nativity musical turned hostage situation, a gold-digging lunatic and one of the greatest onscreen dances ever filmed. I also loved the way Morticia came with her own moonlight, and how Gomez’s devotion bordered on religion. As a kid, this all just made sense to me. While everyone else watched Disney, I was rooting for the woman with a lighter and a motive — and quietly wondering how the fuck they lit Morticia’s eyes like that.
And then it hit me — the movie starts with Morticia telling Gomez she’s having a baby… and we never see her pregnant again. So why not live in that missing moment?
I wanted to give them something guests might double-take at — the kind of photo they’d politely compliment, discuss awkwardly in the car, and that their son will one day see and think, “Explains a lot.” Lama, nine months in, gave full Morticia: calm, eerie, flawless. Scotty brought Gomez energy and Oscar-worthy theatrics.
Together, they were to die for.
