1.6.12 Photographing a Tribe, a Family, a Clan: Your People

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My life as I know it is about to change:  forever.  In about 4 weeks, most likely under the guidance & protection of the full moon …

1.2.12 Photographing Skin as Vulnerable As Yours

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I have heard hundreds of confessions of sorrow by now.  I have listened to thousands of stories of suffering.  I have held in my very …

11.11.11 Photographing The Practice of Happiness: Pregnant Self Portraits & A Goddess Friend Too

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It’s scientifically proven that happiness makes the human heart grow younger.  Happiness is the abundant side effect of being interconnected with those in our life that inspire us and …

9.29.11 Photographing Goddesses. I Was Born To Rise

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I was born on an insanely hot day during July in the Sonoran desert.  Upon a bean bag chair sprawled on my Mother’s bedroom floor, I took …

9.14.11 Photographing 2 Priestesses

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I am in love with Those whom we have learned to judge.  I am drawn to Those we are told to hate.  I am best …

8.01.11 Photographing a Divine Española in the Sonoran Desert

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It’s in west Africa where I feel the most beautiful.  There are barely any mirrors in the places I seem to stay and visit.  People do not …

7.1.11 Photographing a Yoga Goddess

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My yoga practice has gone out the door.  With it has gone rising early and eating mostly raw food.  I am 2 months pregnant, unmarried and …

6.6.11 Photographing Sacred Radiance

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I carried her all the way upriver in my young arms because I wanted her to see my house.  I wanted to bathe with her in …

5.3.2011 Photographing My Heaven on Earth

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I haven’t always been able to stand naked in front of a full-length mirror and smile.  In fact, there are still days that my shoulders …

4.17.2011 Photographing My Self: I am not Afraid to be Real

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I learned how to forgive on a dry, windy and pleasantly warm afternoon in Taos, New Mexico. I had recently turned 24 and I was preparing for my first …

4.5.11 Photographing Vulnerable, Fierce and Exquisite Beauty

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I started choreographing dances when I was 8 years old on the sandy arroyo bed outside of my familia’s palapa, our hut.  I would rally with …

3.25.11 Photographing Authentic Purpose & Sacred Beauty

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{scroll to the bottom for image gallery} It can be said, I say from personal experience, that after one feels the swift brush with Death the colors …