The Glimmer Portrait Project provides free, trauma-informed portrait experiences for families navigating chronic, debilitating, and/or terminal childhood illness. The project creates a gentle, attuned space where children and families can connect, play, and be photographed as themselves, outside the clinical environments that shape so much of their daily lives.

Each session is built around choice and collaboration. Children lead the pace. Families decide how they want to be seen and who they want to be photographed with. Some portraits are playful and silly; others are quiet, grounded, and reflective. All are created with respect, care, and attention to the dynamics of medical trauma.

Every family receives a collection of high-quality images at no cost. In the years ahead, Glimmer plans to expand the project, offering archival prints, additional portrait styles, and wider access across hospitals, Ronald McDonald Houses, and community spaces.

Glimmer exists to offer a moment of calm, connection, and dignity, an experience that becomes meaningful not only in the moment, but in the years that follow.