Gabrielle Geiselman - Milone

It’s a Christmas miracle…..
My 14 almost 15 year old let my husband take a picture of us together ON CHRISTMAS. Anyone who has had a teenager knows what a big deal this is.
It’s been a hell of a year. I’m not going to lie….between the cancer diagnosis in 2024 (Thanksgiving) and the fight of my life over 2025 I am not unhappy seeing 2025 in my soon to be rear view mirror.
With this fourth surgery I’m finally feeling a bit more myself but radiation was no joke and I’m still trying to get stronger. That’s the goal for 2026 get stronger!
I’m so lucky to still be in business as a photographer and I’m thrilled to be booking through spring. I’m coming for you New Orleans after Mardi Gras.
May the end of your year be peaceful and full of joy……
I’m going to take a nap and then get to setting my studio up and taking some pictures. Till then all my love from me and my crazy kid and husband.

On the way to Legacy Hospital for hopefully the last surgery.
St Johns Bridge decided to put on a show with the rain. It was oddly comforting.
See you all on the flip side.
Portland, Oregon
Dec 2025

Fletch and I spent the afternoon at HarBQ watching pastrami smoke and I’m not going to lie it made me hungry!
So hungry I might have to get that whole smoked brisket they are offering for Thanksgiving!!!!! Imagine not having to do the turkey right?
The ribs I ended up picking were to die for……can’t wait for the pastrami we shot to land at Lottie and Zulas!
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I’m bacccccckkkk!
Surgeries completed and ready to get back to photography and life.
What a world we all live in right?
Well here is just a sliver of how smashingly beautiful Portland is in the Fall.
It really is my favorite time of year.
Portland, Oregon
October 2025

Lottie and Zula’s is one of my favorite places to eat in Portland and that’s a huge statement in the City of the Sandwich. I’ve never lived in a place where people were so serious about the craft of the sandwich.
So I’m thrilled to share that there are some amazing things I’m working on with Lottie and Zulas coming up and can’t wait to share them with you. It’s so much fun to work in a place that not only has such delicious food but also an interior that is so arty and so inspired.
Feb 2025
Portland, Oregon

We lost a beautiful, kind and extraordinarily talented man last night. Chef Bell was as so many know one of the first chefs in New Orleans to capture my heart.
He was so kind and funny, sweet and hardworking and had not a clue as to how talented he was. He WAS humble and that alongside his creativity and craft made him a visionary and master with food.
Meauxbar and Cavan were inspired. He could make a plate sing and was obsessed with seasonal ingredients. I will remember so many dishes but amazingly enough the pickled shrimp with arugula and couscous was a fu***ng revelation.
The world will be less colorful and decidedly less delicious without him. Thank you for introducing us and letting us make beautiful things together.
They were some of the greatest moments of my life.
Tons of love to his crew, family and friends and of course to

So because I will be in surgery on my birthday (Feb 6th) 🥴 I’m celebrating tomorrow and asked for a traditional Swedish Prinsesstårta cake (Princess cake).
I’m obsessed with these gorgeously green cakes filled with cream and raspberry and covered in marzipan. I was lucky enough that from had the killer skills to make this beauty.
It’s so lovely and makes me to happy just to see it. The pink roses are just perfect and it feels so festive.
Have you tried one yet? I know for all the years we are here that I’ll be making this a sweet tradition.
Thanks Talon & Broder for bringing a little taste of my grandparents to my day.
Oh and thanks to for the matching cake stand 😂
Portland, Oregon
Jan 29, 2025

I am not a religious person per se but as a photographer I find locations where nature and faith intersect fascinating.
Today I went to the Grotto for the first time. I lit a candle and spent some quiet time in one of the most peaceful and beautiful places I’ve been in in a long while.
It was a perfect place to call upon my strength and my resolve to be stronger and better on the other side of this beast I’m fighting.
It was so nice to wander through the gardens and along the winding pathways from alter to alter and alongside the panoramic views of the city.
It was a good day and one I really needed.
Jan 28,2025
Portland, Oregon

I’ve debated sharing this but feel like it’s important to. If I can save ONE person, help ONE person with this post then it will be worth the “going public”.
I was recently diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (Breast Cancer). I have ZERO familial history of Breast Cancer and I do not have the BRCA gene. I don’t smoke (anymore for the last 14 years), I consume a few cocktails a month and I walk, dance and eat well. I don’t eat red meat except on rare occasions and use lean meat more as a condiment than a main and I have Stage Two Breast Cancer.
I also have a subset of the cancer which makes it grow quickly. I am lucky a mammogram and a rockstar radiologist (Dr Christiansen at Legacy) got in the game with me and insisted on a MRI and Biopsy.
The Breast Cancer of 2024 is not what so many Gen X’ers like myself were taught it was. PLEASE get a mammogram! Even if you have dense breasts, even if every year you have to go back for another one or a sonogram it could save your life.
It saved mine.
Fortunately I don’t have to have chemo or radiation, unfortunately I was started from the day I was diagnosed on Tamoxifen. It’s a brutal but in my case necessary drug that I will be on for the next 5 years. I also have been told I must have a double mastectomy which I will be doing on my birthday in early February.
I’m scared to death. I’m also so lucky. I have a beautiful life and having this diagnosis has made so much crystal clear about how I will move forward. It’s a s**t sandwich AND a gift wrapped in a big old lesson about perspective.
1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. It doesn’t care if you are a vegan or a carnivore, if you have the gene or not, young and old it’s striking women in huge numbers.
So don’t think it’s not going to happen to me…..because I am proof that it happens even to those who have no familial history OR BRCA.
I’m probably going to be a little quiet in the next few months. It’s a lot to process and I’ve only just begun.

My friend, collaborator and partner of many years Charlie Deaux passed away in Miami,suddenly on December 10th from Legionnaires Disease. It was a shock to those of us who knew him and loved him.
Charlie was a complicated and wildly talented man. A visionary, with a gift for storytelling and visuals that were simply otherworldly. He also possessed a streak of hard headedness that was legend.
He did life his way.
In the almost 30 years we knew each other our path was never linear, never easy but he was one of my best friends, greatest cheerleaders and gave me the most beautiful gift in the world.
Rest easy Charlie….
May you now find the peace that so eluded you in this life. I’d want that for you so very much.
Charles S Deaux
March 10, 1969 - Dec 10, 2024
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Between the bones there is a sliver of light.
Some call it hope.
I’m not so sure.
My eyes are weary…I thought I knew my way by heart but with each step I find the memory slipping away.
I’m lost, untethered the horizon eludes me.
I’ve always known the way. I’ve always been able to dig deep and survive yet now this time it feels like a free fall.
There is a freedom in falling, releasing that grip and finally relenting but I’m not built that way.
I have never been built that way.
So as the winter approaches and the daylight dims I will once again dig deep and stay vigilant.
This story is not over.
This story is not complete.
This story……

A little throwback to New Orleans. Blood, sweat and tears in the Irish Channel.
9th Street at chippewa
New Orleans, Louisiana
Sept 2016