Empowering portraits celebrating YOU, here and now.

Celebrating the body you are in and the ways you’ve learned to embrace it.

Celebrating the path you’ve been on and the path ahead.

Creating a sacred, safe space for you to see yourself and feel seen.

Being able to see you through my lens is an absolute honour. Having focused my portrait and teaching work for the last 10 years on body acceptance, I have a deeply rooted centred practice around making YOU feel safe and seen with compassion. With me, you don’t have to worry about comments about your body. You don’t have to worry about me trying to ‘hide your flaws’ because I don’t think you’re flawed at all. The system that tells that anything about your body is wrong, is flawed. But don’t worry, you don’t have to be at any certain place in your body acceptance path to work with me (because guess what, we’re all in the midst of figuring it all out)!

My portrait practice is rooted in embodied exploration, self-connection and curiosity. What drives me to take portraits is truly to help YOU see yourself with compassion too. For you to see your photos and see the radiant, incredible, vibrant person you are. For you to tap into the energy of being your own beloved.

Alongside my work helping people see themselves with love through self-portraiture, I am also deeply in love with the experience of helping people see their own magic, their own spark and yes, their own beauty through taking their portrait.

Whether your photos are for your new website, your author photo or to create space for self-discovery through a photo session, we can make that happen together.

And being in photos is vulnerable, I get that. Which is why I focus on this work of Empowered Portraiture in these sessions. Even as a self-portrait photographer, as soon as I get in front of someone else’s camera it is as though I become a turtle tucking into my shell and find myself feeling not present in my body. In taking self-portraits, I practice and teach tools for feeling embodied in our self-portraits and feeling in control the experience of being photographed which makes a portrait session with me a unique experience. That’s where this session is going to be unlike any other and we’ll use these tools to help you feel grounded, embodied and connected as we document the story of you through my lens.

YOUR PORTRAIT SESSION:

Your Beloved Portrait Session is a powerful 1 hour photo session designed to create a diversity of images that allow you to feel seen by you first and foremost as well as feeling empowered to share your images in the spaces you are seeking to feel seen.

As both a self-portrait teacher and body image activist, creating a body positive, empowering experience of being in front of the lens is my focus. In hour together we’ll go on a creative adventure in a location suited to your needs. My photo sessions have the kind of adventurous spirit you’d expect seeing my photos. You’ll find I’ll take a spot one might normally not even notice and turn it into an inspiring photo spot for your portrait session. There’s a magic and serendipity to our time together and we make creative magic together.

My style in our portrait sessions isn’t to pose you into uncomfortable poses designed to try and fit a visual norm.  It isn’t to try to make you look like you are in a body other than your own. It’s to help you move your way, pose your way, radiate your unique energy and be seen as YOU. As a body positive photographer my focus is to create images that help you see the incredible, radiant, vibrant YOU that we all see in you!

You receive:

• 50+ JPG images from our photo session
• Post production editing (but being body positive portraiture I don’t retouch or alter your body in any way in your images…I simply help you shine and radiate in these photos naturally).
• Full size images delivered to you in a beautiful gallery for you to make use of!
• An empowering photo experience I hope you’ll feel good about for years to come!

Investment:

The investment for your 1 hour Beloved Portrait Session is $600 CAD and you can book your session below!

I’ve had sessions with other photographers and they always came back having me look like someone else. You help me SEE myself the way I authentically feel. 

-Jillian 

THESE ARE UNBELIEVABLE! You really outdid yourself woman! I am feeling so much gratitude for you.

-Summer 

Book Your Session:

Contact me via the contact form on this site to book your session!

Questions?

Can you come to me to do a Beloved Portrait Session?

At this point, the Beloved Body Positive Portrait Sessions are located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. We will adapt the location to suit our needs but often sessions will in outdoor locations such as the gorgeous beach, the forest, some of the unique alleyways, colourful buildings in my neighbourhood of Chinatown as well as further out of the city.

Victoria is a lovely ferry ride away from Seattle and the ferries are scheduled in both the morning and afternoon with enough time for us to do a session in between if you’re coming just for the day (and I’ll come meet you at the ferry).

As a long-time Vancouver resident before my move to Victoria, I’m also most definitely open to shooting in Vancouver and taking you to my favourite vibrant portrait spots and pockets of nature within the city to shoot. Please connect with me directly via the contact form if you’d like to talk about the possibility of a Vancouver session. If this is of interest, I encourage you to book in the early months  of this year as I will have less availability to travel to the mainland for your session after June 2019.

I have a specific need for a photo shoot to get head shots for my blog or business.  Do you do portrait sessions without the self-portrait aspect too?

If you are finding yourself drawn to the style of portraiture you are seeing in the Beloved Gallery I highly recommend joining me for a Beloved Portrait Session as we use some really unique tools to get you feeling at home in your body during a photo session. Perhaps the idea of taking self-portraits feels really full of fear for you…that is totally normal and I’ll be using my playful photography approach to make you feel comfortable in the photo walk and photo session!

Do feel free to contact me about your photo needs though and I’ll see if we can create a Beloved Session that is a fit for you! Do note, prices may vary though if we go outside the parameters of the Beloved Session.