03/08/2021
Long, personal post ahead :)
So, what's happening with my photography?
I have been asked this a few times now.
I am not dependent on photography as a source of income anymore and have had a bit of a change in priorities during the past 1.5 years for several reasons.
Making art is really why I started photography in the first place, and I want to get deeper into art - especially "difficult" art. I'm ready now to embark on this journey, to play and discover and find the joy in things again.
Unfortunately, I have really fallen out of love with social media (and yet she posts it on Facebook, the irony, haha!) - the constant changing of guidelines, shadowbanning hashtags, the intense amount of work I have to put in to get my work seen at all feel like I'm in a toxic relationship where my partner moves the goalposts all the time and I can do everything right & still get in trouble because the algorithm is having a bad day.
And with the kind of work I want to do, I will definitely end up in trouble.
So I am going to make art primarily for me, and the person(s) in the photo. If it ends up on social media and doesn't get me blocked for 30 days because of a ni**le, fine - but I guess a lot of it will be on my website, maybe I will make something like a Patreon, maybe even exhibit the work somewhere....
Also, I'm looking for models of all genders, especially LGBTQIA+, disabled, fat people, tattooed people, very thin people, s*x workers, burlesque artists, ... you should be comfortable with some degree of nudity, though.
Am I still going to take your family photos? Sure! Weddings I think I'm going to phase out slowly, though - I love them but there are many people who shoot them better than me and they aren't my main thing anyway.
Still, if you want me to shoot really anything at all, just ask!
Thanks for reading 😊
Ida