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Nature Portraits for women
We all have our tender places, intricacies, I like to call them. I’ve come to love mine as I get older and now willingly step in front of the camera. My biggest epiphany about acceptance came when I turned 40, I only have this one body, this one experience and chance at life…
Documenting your life , the vulnerability of saying yes.
J. was turning a new leaf after years spent in Montreal, building a community, relationships, a career. She was setting off alone to South America, not to start from scratch, but to continue becoming the version of herself she had purposefully chosen. She wanted to mark this journey of growth and exploration that had led to this moment, when she could finally pursue her dream. She wanted to commemorate it, document it, with flowers.
Documenting motherhood; a breast feeding journey
After many hospital visits and late nights, Alice was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. She very quickly lost weight, and became very weak. Suddenly Erin's refusal to stop breastfeeding wasn't just love, it was a lifeline. When Alice was so unwell and couldn't eat, when insulin needles and bruises became the new normal, nursing was the one source of comfort that held and kept her safe. The thing people had pressured Erin to give up became the very thing that helped her daughter through the most difficult period of her young life.
Take The Picture
Photography is vulnerable. It’s an intimate exchange of trust. It breaks self image wide open. I know that feeling. That the shape of you is wrong. It’s the feeling that is wrong, not the shape. And the more I hear it the more I understand that it’s rarely, truly coming from the core being of the person in front of me. It’s taught. We are taught to pick ourselves apart. Yet each time I hear some version of 'let me hide', it’s still jarring.