I fell in love with her coconut-buttery skin when I was 12. Or maybe I was 10. Desa Rea has always been an inspiration of …
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2.4.11 Photographing 3 Generations of Ceremony
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10.16.10 Photographs of the Mother Land
The first time i landed on her red-tinted soil, my entire selfish world changed. I silenced my words and opened my eyes and learned how to …
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10.15.10 Photographing Authentic Beauty.
Photographing Authentic Beauty.
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10.14.10 Photographing Hard Work
Click here to open the gallery. Blackie is in his mid seventies, has somewhere around 13 children and works hard landscaping in the Sonoran desert …
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9.28.10 Photographing Ripe Bellies
My dad tells me that I am fascinated with these ripe bellies because I am “vicariously living through them”. Maybe. Maybe not. I do have the most …
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9.9.10 Photographing Dancing Aspens
Click here to open the gallery. Last fall i went into the hills and photographed the changing of sacred season… It is such an exquisite time to …
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9.20.10 Jade Beall Photography Blog Begins!
i am on a mission of photographing and dancing and yoga-ing with Goddesses… wanna join in the ecstatic bliss of beauty?
1.6.12 Photographing a Tribe, a Family, a Clan: Your People
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
{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 …