In the news

  • Heather Gallagher takes a photo from her car window at the beginning of COVID. She is wearing a mask and gloves.

    Austin American Statesmen, "Austin photographer captures life from the front seat of her car during coronavirus"

  • A Black mother breastfeeds her baby while holding her toddler daughter. The mother is smiling at her daughter and the daughter is smiling looking into the camera.

    Austin Woman, "Meet birth-to-death-photographer Heather Gallagher

“In both businesses, what the through line is, is that I am a witness first and foremost,” Gallagher says. “I really strive to hold space and to empower people in whatever they're going through.”

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Decibel by Austin PBS; “The Life Witness” January, 2020

KVUE Austin, May 2020

'It's a picture of humanity' | Austin photographer documents households during COVID-19 pandemic

With many people staying home, Heather Gallagher is hoping to capture as many households as possible to show us we're more similar than we think.

Print features

Public Speaking

  • Current Conference 2019, Austin, TX

    Moderator for the panel “Building an inclusive brand”

  • Misfits Fest; Austin, TX 2019

    Speaker: “How to tell your parents you’re not an engineer”

  • Future Front Texas (formally Boss Babes, ATX), 2018

    Panelist, She Talks: Me, Myself & Parenthood

Podcasts

  • Universal Language

  • Home birth to hospital transfer birth story

  • Anti-Racism & Privilege

  • Inventing a language and living across the spectrum

  • Inspire: Normalizing birth, death and everything in between

  • Using photography to love beyond words