As a teenager, everyone knew me as the ‘girl with the camera’. Everywhere I went, my little hot pink Sony, cyber shot camera came with me. For me, it was about capturing the moment, being able to delve into that exact moment in time and cherish my youthfulness, old friends and family, both past and present. Now, I carry that mind set with me into my photography except with a lot more knowledge and desire to capture others; in their real, raw, vulnerable and blissfully happy moments.
I come from a very traditional Eastern European family in which it was a must to go to University and finish a degree that I could carry under my belt, that would offer me life long job security. Photography was just not ‘good enough’. So I went with what I knew I was good at, being an empath, wanting to support people within my community so I completed a Bachelor of Social Work in which I went on to working within the disability sector - a sector that will forever hold a very special place in my heart. Although I loved every single moment doing what I was doing, there was a little void in my heart in which I knew that I was not where I was destined to be in this lifetime.
The birth of my son in 2020 was also the rebirth of me. The birth of the creative. The creative that was trapped in the body of a well conditioned hard working employee who had another 40 years of work left ahead of her. Supporting others, but forgetting herself. My work was fulfilling, but mentally and spiritually straining. I wanted to give my son and more importantly myself, the fluidity to transcend into my different life stages with an open heart, a nourished soul and fully functioning mental capacity. So I re-found my love and passion for photography. Amidst the beautiful and very new newborn and infant chaos, cluster feeds, constant wake ups, poop explosions, all whilst trying to maintain a healthy marriage and good level of self care and self love, I began educating myself, learning about shooting in different light which would allow me to capture not only ones physical being but internal too. I am completely self taught (with the exception of short online courses) and it completely baffles me that my younger self would have thought that being self taught was not ‘enough’ to start your own business and that without the 30+ thousand dollar University debt, I couldn’t possibly do a complete career change. I will prove her wrong. And I will make her ever so proud!
My little humans - my sons - are my purpose. They are the light in my life and the reason for my complete flip of mindset. We have been conditioned our whole lives to believe that there is little room for people to grow and prosper within their own dreams and that making that dream a reality is something that can be achieved but only in the distant future, that’s if you don’t burn out before then. Birthing not only allowed me to give life to my sons but to myself. Becoming a mother has allowed me to question all and to enter a complete different state of knowing and understanding. Entering this new phase of my life both spiritually and physically has been nothing but a god send. I had been asleep for most of my life and now I am intuitively awake and ready to welcome everyone and everything that allows me to be creative and free both physically and mentally and to give a bit of myself to what and who I love most. My passion has been ignited from a two small humans and I want to share that passion and fire with you!
So come and have a chat with me! Tell me your story and allow me to freeze those special moments in time, in all your realness, in all your perfectly imperfect phases of life. So one day when we grow old and old me must become. We can sit and reminisce, savour those precious, tiny details once more, those uncertain and terrifying moments of parenthood and say, I did it. Then graciously pass on those frozen moments, into the capable hands of those you helped bring here.