Hey - you with the body - let's chat.

Remember when Lizzo said “Mirror, mirror on the wall, tell me what you see / It’s that, oh my God, it’s lookin’ heavenly” - did you feel that? Maybe you didn’t. Every person has a complicated, raw, beautiful, meh or great relationship with their body.

As someone who has struggled with my appearance for as long as I can remember - my weight, my freckles, my smile - I know that body confidence or lack of there of is something that can affect your daily life, your mood, your relationships and decisions. Now I am gonna gonna harp on about loving yourself. I don’t think you need to, I think your feels about your body are yours to feel and I won’t be patronising enough to tell you to feel otherwise.

BUT - I am here to encourage you to celebrate that relationship. One of the things that made me connect with myself is self portraits. It was not long after I got my first camera, that I turned it on myself. It helped me express myself at a time when I was in a toxic relationship, hurting and trapped. I’ve done self portraits when I am happy. I have done them when i’ve hated myself, when I loved myself and when I was just about okay with most of my body. And I don’t regret a single image. But my journey is not as complicated as for some.

I channelled this when I began to photograph other people. My very first paid photoshoot was for a someone who had not had her photo taken since her wedding day 14 years prior. I did my best to make her feel confident and to feel herself. And although she wasn’t at ‘the weight’ or ‘as young as she’d like’ she bloody loved them. She blew one up and put it her own bedroom and said ‘I felt so much like myself and I loved it’ and it taught me three key things:

1) The power of producing authentic photography
2) The power of being authentic
3) Self confidence is powerful

I also had the joy of photographing someone who had worked really hard to make big changes to become the person on the outside that they have always been on the inside. We did a confidence photoshoot and it is still, to this day, one of my favourites.

Which brings me to this, I am officially offering body confidence photoshoots again. This is something I began doing in 2019 but realised I needed to go on my own journey first. And friends, I am back and I am here to tell you that you, babe, just as you are RIGHT NOW- are worthy of celebration.

This goes deeper, for every photoshoot I book, 20% will be donated to a cause I really believe in. We live in a society where some of our community do not have their basic needs met and we have to work to pick up the slack, one day I hope for change.. But in the meantime, I’d like to introduce you to Soph in their own words:

’Hey, I’m Soph. I am a mixed, skater, sci-fi loving, bass playing queer non binary person. I am raising funds for top surgery and am about two-thirds of the way there. Gender dysphoria sucks; it’s a daily grind I have felt since I was 10. Raising funds during COVID is a nightmare. I found myself without a job in the summer, and I lost my home. I am only coming out the ass end of it now. I am looking for help. Help anyone can give me to access basic health which should be freely, easily available but it’s not. It would mean the world to me’

Please go and read more about Soph HERE. And check out their Instagram too.

SO - if you have made a change that makes you feel like your authentic self. Or would like to spend some time with me helping you feel like a badass in your own skin. Or if you have over come a thing, or let go of a thing. Or really just wanna celebrate yourself exactly as you are in this moment. Drop me a line below to register your interest in a Body Confidence Photoshoot or check out the packages here.

Let me tell your story. Be visible as your authentic self. Celebrate yourself & your story.