
FILM PHOTOGRAPHY
NOW BOOKING AUSTRALIA, BALI, AND NEW ZEALAND
My photography is rooted in deep witnessing
As an oracle who sees into the true nature of my clients, my work is intimate, intentional, and transformative. I capture the truest expression of you and your natural gifts/artistry/expression, calling you out into who you most authentically, boldly, and divinely are. The co-creation journeys of my photoshoots is a ritual of returning to your inner muse, purest divine light, empowered self, and powerful embodiment as a woman.
In a photo session, we connect intimately to the land we are creating on, to our hearts, our visions, and the fire in our bellies. We create sacred space, commune with the elements, and dance with the shadows and the light as an alchemical process of becoming is unveiled. Each photoshoot becomes a story told by the sacred humming of our hearts, the heart of the Earth, and the rhythm of creation.
I have been creating with analog photography for 15+ years.
As a child, my grandmother would give me a disposable film camera and tell me to go take photos. I would run around the neighborhood capturing birds of paradise, hibiscus, and other tropical flora on the swampy lands that raised me, and anything I found beautiful. Film was my first creative medium, and not much has changed since.
After my grandmother’s passing as a teenager, I inherited her film cameras. Creating art with them became a big part of my grieving and becoming process. I fell madly in love with witnessing the beauty, miracles, and cycles of life through film and noticed how it moved life through my system at the same time, becoming a medium of transformation. It became the lens through which I processed and felt the transformational cycles of living as a sensitive woman here to radically transform and embody my divine nature, creative power, and oracular gifts and lead others through this feminine and creative liberation process.
Along with working with fashion and jewelry designers, bands, and musicians in NYC in my early 20s, I spent many years traveling around the world, photographing nature through her cycles of decay and bloom and cultures through cycles of expression, seeing these reflections of creation mirrored in myself and my subjects. Seeing with my outer vision attuned my inner vision as I communed with the natural world, which was a training and initiation that led me to a fuller expression of my soul's purpose.
When I was 25, I got into a car accident with a drunk driver and obtained multiple injuries, one of which was a broken shoulder. I was in Cambodia at the time, and there was very little healing support available from doctors or even English-speaking humans. As needles and different native tongues were coming at me left and right, I found out the extent of my injuries through a game of multi-language telephone. One of my injuries was said to take 6-12 months to heal, and I would potentially need surgery when I got back home to the States. A week later, my spirit defeated, suffering in pain, and processing the trauma of my experience, I was in Aotearoa (New Zealand) for the first time. It was here that Spirit led me to completely surrender myself to nature and begin the practice of self-portraiture with the land. I couldn't lift my arm due to my shoulder injury, but in this raw, vulnerable, and physically and emotionally beaten down state, I took photos of myself with the sea and the stone beings that guided me. Within a couple of days of this devotional practice of presence, empowerment, embodied expression, and self-witnessing, all physical pain vanished, and I had full mobility in my arm. Shocked and in awe, this is when I awakened to the awareness that the most powerful forms of healing are nature, presence, the feminine force of creation, and embodied expression. From then, my practice with clients evolved, and I began bringing more and more women to sacred places in nature to experience the healing of being witnessed fully, being held by the Earth, and letting the fullness of who they emerge through any layers of pain, shame, or fear that may hide their light.
I continue to travel around the world shooting 35 mm, 120 mm, and polaroid film art for designers, brands, bands, artists, healers, mystics, muses, mothers, online and print publications, retreats, and also for myself as an avenue of deep healing, freedom, and empowered embodiment, intimately witnessing myself and others through this lens of raw and primal presence.
What I love about analog photography as a medium is the grounded presence, intention, trust, surrender to the mystery, and patience it asks of you. There is no instant gratification or immediate results. It isn’t a medium of expression that can be rushed or even perfected, which is very different from our modern age of social media, Instagram photographers, iPhones, and apps that distort your appearance. With film, we are not focused on the outcome but on the experience of being present in co-creation with nature and the nature we are. When working with film, we surrender to a more natural beauty, unbridled energy, and essence of creation that dances as a flame through the heart and belly of a woman. It is a medium that beautifully captures energy that cannot be so easily seen with the naked eye alone, which is why it has always resonated with me as someone who naturally sees into the otherworlds. Shooting with film is like seeing the world through multi-dimensional bee lenses! The creativity is limitless, the colors are healing, and the spirit of life is vibrant and fertile.
Check out my offerings below, and let’s create magic together in ceremony with the natural world, your spirit, and the spirits who walk with you through this life.
OFFERINGS
FULL DAY WITNESSING CEREMONIES
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A full-day of ceremony, transformation, and co-creation that includes multiple locations. In preparation for this special embodiment ceremony, we will connect to discuss intentions/visions for your expression/transformation. The focus in these collaborations is the story being told through the body of work you are sharing, your unique creative expression, and the energetic signature of yourself/creative work. Let’s make magical art together that transforms, liberates, and expands as I witness and capture your most authentic and embodied soul essence.
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The starting rate for a 1-day Witnessing Ceremony (up to 6 hours), up to 2-3 locations, and 44 final edited art images is $1,500 NZD. Additional photos may be purchased, and prints of all sizes may be ordered. Payment plans may be available through Klarna or PayPal.
HALF DAY WITNESSING CEREMONIES
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Experience a 2.5-hour portrait session in nature to capture your embodied magic and soul's wild essence. These sessions are a ceremonial healing session to be witnessed in your truest unfolding essence. Connect in heart-to-heart, body-to-plant communion as we drop in for ceremony, casting intentions and prayers, before grounding and preparing to capture your essence through film.
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The rate for 2.5 hours of connecting/capturing in one location, with 18 edited final images, is $500 NZD. Additional photos may be purchased, and prints of all sizes may be requested and purchased as well.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
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I love collaborating on exciting projects such as larger editorial shoots shot over multiple days and locations, curating, directing, and shooting videos, traveling to new lands to create on, capturing retreat photography, photos for books, art shows, and more! Have a big vision? Get in touch!
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Inquire with details on your project/vision for a quote
PORTFOLIO
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THE ONES WHO SEE
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THE ONES WHO MUSE
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THE ONES WHO BIRTH
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THE ONES WHO LIVE
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SELF-PORTRAITURE
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SPECIAL PROJECTS