this one is for the weary.
This one is for all the nights you clung to the floor. This one is for the battered, and the tired, for the sink full of dirty dishes and the black funeral clothes. This session isn’t about makeup, or outfits, or posing. Nobody is going to curl your hair or tell you how beautiful you are. You are beautiful, of course. But not because of how you appear in front of the camera, gussy-ed up and ready.
You are beautiful because you showed up to capture something much greater than beauty itself: resiliency.
When we are bogged down by pain, when we are in the thick of it, it is so hard to see our own power, our own strength, our own resilience. But I promise you it’s there. And I promise you I will be there to show you how beautiful you are even in the muck of it.
This is a space for the unseen to feel seen. This is a baptism of another kind. This is a reclamation. From the birth. From the divorce. From the rape and the abortion and the miscarriage. From the years of chronic pain, and shitty luck, and reaping something totally different than you thought you sowed. This is where you let go of the weight we all carry in some hard way, blistered and beaten with it. This is where you uncurl even just one little finger.
This is for every woman brave enough not only to step out from behind shame, but take their own tired story and hold it up to the light.
I’ll see you in the water.
Amanda
In your intake form, you will share a bit of your story. It is from that I will learn more about who you are and why you are in need of a session like this, but it is also where I will create a blackout poem for you, just like this one.
“Thank you for such a beautiful experience this morning. I can honestly say I wouldn’t be able to trust any other photographer to let me break down like that and truly release my grief. The authenticity of your story telling and ability to radiate the feelings inside your soul to those around you is a magical thing I’ve never experienced before.
I feel lighter, less conflicted. Free. ”
I CAN'T WAIT TO HUG YOU
I CAN'T WAIT TO HUG YOU