Since you are on this website previewing this blog post you can see some changes in and around this blog post! I have finally come to a place with myself and my work to be able to create an ACTUAL logo (aside from just my name) and I wanted to give you a bit of background where all of this has come from. Let's start with the symbol behind my name:
The book that changed my life was The Alchemist and I even wrote a blog post about it when I was on a kick about sharing my favorite things. I have not only read this book a few times, I have probably bought and give another 10 to people that needed it at that moment in their lives. If you haven't read it and are finding yourself at a bit of a crossroads in your life, I highly recommend it. But anywho, the idea of Alchemy was something that I have always been attracted to: the process of transforming lead into gold (or at least trying to). I have always known that what we do here at the THP Studios is more than just photography and I really connected with this idea of "transformation." Now, as I mentioned before I am not transforming women from ugly to beautiful, but rather, we are transforming the way they see themselves. More often than not the babes that come in front of my lens view themselves as lead: heavy, burdened, plain, etc. (this is never the actual case) and then when they leave, they feel like gold (bright, shiny, see their worth, etc.)
Secondly, the variety of alchemy symbols that I decided to forge together came out of a fab quote that I came across:
(this image was found via Pinterest)I strongly believe that everyone needs to recognize this about themselves and help develop that fire within themselves. I believe that every woman who comes in for a session leaves with a stirring inside her to get her to bring forth the passion for herself once again.
(artist unknown)Lastly, if you will look closely at the dark colors that permeate my site, you will realize that it is NOT black, and rather a beautiful, moody navy. When I travel and see the ocean, my favorite has always been when it is a gorgeous dark hue...almost the color of the night sky in the autumn. It's a color I had a hard time pinning down, but when I finally came across it, I realized it was a essentially a darker hue of the teal I had been using prior. As I have evolved, so have my tastes, but the original inspiration still stays. This darker color is also more representative of my shooting style, where I shoot more for shadows than I do for light (odd thing for a photographer to say!). In any case, this is the current, evolved version of THP Studios thanks for hanging around to watch us grow!
Kintsukuroi ~ Winnipeg Empowerment Photography
For the month of November, I did an Empowerment Project featuring babes and the stories that are imprinted upon their skin in the form of scars, stretch marks, and so on. I came up with this concept after coming across a meme about the Japanese art of repair, using gold to fuse the broken pieces together, thus making it more beautiful.
I invited these babes into the studio and while I painted over their skin, they told me their stories about what brought them in and that is what you will see below. You can also check out our other Empowerment Projects here!
