One doesn’t really know a person unless they’re in front of the camera. Looking through the lens, there’s another layer uncovered than the familiar face we post to the public. Maybe that’s why personal photoshoots are more intimate, you go through the layers of you, unveiling the different layers of your personality. This was the […]
Launching my 2016 Gold Book, a retrospective of my work in 2016. Partake to this wonderful experience. Life is to be celebrated.
Femininity: The quality of being female; womanliness. Feminism: The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes. – Oxford Dictionary ” My notions of femininity and feminism have always existed in the interstices between race and class. Growing up in rural California in the 80s, and like so many of […]
Portraits for me, speak about self- love and loving your body. So many women struggle with their image, as we are judged on impossible standards of appearance. This insecurity is passed from generation to generation. This is why it is so important to teach your daughter to love herself now, the way she […]
I was mentioning last time that the first step to love is, self love. Well, I continue here with the next step. This one is easier and fun: Love your girlfriends. Acknowledge and celebrate your girlfriends! They are your support system. They are there for you. They hold you when you are low and […]
Since this is the month of LOVE, I would like to kick start it with a portrait reveal of someone who took their first step to love. Self Love. I believe it is impossible to love someone else or to care for someone else until you really love who YOU are – EVERY aspect. Of course this is not […]
What would you say to your younger self, the insecure teen girl that is complexed by her looks and lets that affect her life experience. Would you have found a way to let her know how beautiful she is ? To stop worrying about her appearance ? How would you raise your daughter’s self esteem? In a […]
How do you see yourself ? Allison from DailyOutfit has been a long time supporter of me and my business endeavours. She was first a strong believer in me, while I was working at my 123dressme project, and then, when I decided to move on and start this new genre in photography, Glamour Portraits, she became my biggest ambassador and one […]
The mother and daughter relationship is the biggest there is, the biggest bond. It has a powerful connection that goes beyond words and physics. Scientists say: “Each of us takes in at a cellular level how our mother feels about being female, what she believes about her body, how she takes care of her health, […]
I love printing my work. It is another dimension of photography that I was missing before I held a print in my hands. In 2010 my mentor in photography, Paul Butterfield, gave me a present. He printed and matted twenty of my iPhone pics. Right then I realised that a photo is so much more than an […]