30/10/2026
A little update from me, Beyond the Spectrum Photography, and something that’s been weighing heavily on my mind.
To all my beautiful clients, past, present and future, I want to reassure you that yes, I am absolutely still photographing beautiful humans and creating beautiful still moments.
In fact, I’m as busy as ever, juggling photography alongside a few other business interests I’ve created over the past couple of years. Photography has been part of my life for so long, and my love for capturing genuine moments, connections and memories hasn’t changed.
What has changed, however, is how I feel about sharing those moments online.
Some of you may have noticed that my social media presence has become considerably quieter in the last eighteen months. This hasn’t been accidental.
As you know, last year, I made the conscious decision to stop sharing photographs of children online. Not because I stopped loving what I do, but because I am increasingly uncomfortable with what is happening in the digital world, particularly with the rapid development and misuse of artificial intelligence. Quite frankly, it concerns the hell out of me.
AI is changing industries at an extraordinary pace, and photography is certainly one of them. The ability to create, manipulate and reproduce images is becoming frighteningly sophisticated. Images that once represented a genuine moment, a real person or an authentic memory can now be altered into something entirely different.
As photographers, we have always had to deal with our work being copied, stolen or used without permission. But AI has introduced a far more disturbing element to that conversation.
We are now seeing innocent photographs taken from social media and manipulated into inappropriate, degrading and sometimes sexually explicit material without the knowledge or consent of the people pictured.
The recent case involving a stolen graduation photograph in NSW being used inappropriately is a confronting reminder of just how vulnerable our images can become once they enter the online world.
And when those images involve women and children, the implications are particularly horrifying.
I cannot, in good conscience, continue sharing photographs of women and children simply to maintain an online presence or satisfy an algorithm when I know there are people capable of using those images for such abhorrent purposes.
I have spent years building relationships with families who trust me to photograph their most precious moments. That trust means far more to me than likes, shares or social media engagement.
Furthermore though, I also believe this conversation needs to go much further than photography.
As women, we have a responsibility to protect not only ourselves, but each other. Particularly the younger generations growing up in a world where technology is evolving faster than our understanding of its consequences.
We need to be part of the conversation about artificial intelligence. We need to understand it, question it, challenge its misuse and demand accountability from those developing and using it.
Because if we don’t, I genuinely fear future generations of women will find themselves fighting battles for their dignity, privacy, autonomy and rights, much like the women who fought so hard for feminism and equality before us.
Those women fought to give us a voice, to give us choices and to give us control over our own lives and bodies. We need to make sure we don’t lose those rights in a digital world.
While AI has enormous potential to do wonderful things, we cannot ignore the damage it is already capable of causing. Progress should never come at the expense of someone’s dignity, safety or consent.
I am not anti-technology. I’m certainly not suggesting that AI doesn’t have its place. But I am deeply concerned about how casually we are embracing something without fully considering the long-term consequences, particularly for women and children.
So, to my beautiful clients, I’m still here. Still working, still creating and still doing something I genuinely love.You just won’t see as much of my work appearing in your newsfeed anymore while I try to find my way in this new digital world.
My online presence is changing, but my business isn’t disappearing.
Perhaps it’s also a reminder that not everything beautiful needs to be shared with the world. Some moments deserve to remain exactly where they belong, with the people who were there to experience them.
Thank you to everyone who continues to support my photography, whether you’ve been with me for years or have only recently discovered my work. And please, let’s start having these conversations. Not when the damage is done, but now. Because protecting the next generation shouldn’t be something we think about after the fact. ❤️
Ohhhh and my lovely photo courtesy of Red Hill Collective ✨
