Alchemy Portraits - Body Positive Intimate Portraits and Boudoir

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Puerto Vallarta
Alchemy Portraits - Body Positive Intimate Portraits and Boudoir

Alchemy Portraits is intimate portraits and bo***ir centered around the ideas of body acceptance and being body positive.

05/05/2022

"I knew literally from the age of like 12 that I wanted to have piercings and tattoos. I just thought it was aesthetically pleasing. I obviously waited until I was 18 to get some piercings and then I started college.

I got my first tattoo the day before my 19th birthday. By the time I got home for Christmas, I had seven and by the time I got home for summer I had 14. So, I really went like you know, whole hog in Kansas.

I just kept getting them because I like the way they look. I like the way that you can alter the appearance and your body but I feel like I don't necessarily put a lot of forethought into some of my tattoos. I've definitely woken up and just thought, "I'd like something green here on my elbow." But that's also why this is a cover up. So...*laughs* yeah.

Probably 15 years ago my mom got her first tattoo with me, we got matching tattoos. And since then we've had probably five or six together and my eldest sister has also joined in and gotten two of the same ones. Sometimes we get like a little alteration or sometimes we get the exact same one but it's like a nice bonding experience and it's really cute, I think, of my mom to try to support me and things I like through getting it, you know.

She lives in a small town in Kansas so she's definitely kind of like a wild woman there now because she has some tattoos.
I feel like it's a really sweet bonding experience and also kind of like just a real journey because both my mother and I have chronic pain and getting a tattoo when you have chronic pain is like a special kind of intense. Your body just has no endorphins left essentially. So it's like we're really going through some s**t together."

13/02/2022

“After years of avoiding
I gather courage
To look at my naked body.
Stripped away from people’s comments
Unclothed from society’s judgement
Bare of peer pressure
Disrobed of self-hate
I see a perfectly flawed body
That is distinctly mine.
I see me.
I finally found me.”
- Amena Azeez
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07/11/2021

Some thoughts I jotted down while waiting for dinner last week:
“Sitting in a brewery in Mexico waiting for take out and the white stripes come on the speakers. It makes me suddenly very aware of how fu***ng surreal it is that something so familiar can still feel familiar a thousand miles from home and after two years of absence from my life.

People watch sports on tv and drink beer at the bar and it could be anywhere in my city but in Spanish and added to this surrealness is the deep feeling of contentment I have of doing it alone, something I usually hate doing. Being quarantined with my partner 24-7, the last two years haven’t had much of that… alone… but also, somehow, far too much of it.

The last 2 weeks however have been a healing potion for my soul. 2 groups of women completely distinct from each other coming together to dig deep into the awkward, difficult, squishy, scary parts of themselves in front of strangers turned soul sisters. And in witnessing them beginning (or continuing) this work of self image and the millions of non-body related layers that lie just underneath that I found a space to be completely myself. Without the masks I’ve always used to tamp down the things I think others might find off putting. And in that space found radical acceptance of me, completely unfiltered by people who had no reason to be so loving except that we were always meant to come together in this way, in this moment, for these exact reasons.

So I finish my IPA, and I whisper to the universe my gratitude for helping me reconnect to people and to travel and to adventure and to the shift in perspective the pandemic has granted me and to recognizing the immense growth that has happened recently even when I never seem to realize it in the moment.”

25/10/2021

I’ll write more about this past week soon but for now I need you to know that I had a few moments when nothing existed but my body, the sunshine, the humid air on my skin, and I felt the unleashed power of my spirit embodied in that moment. That is some powerful s**t because even looking at these now, I’m taken back to that feeling and can only see that power. What a gift 🖤

Art by the incredible ***ir

12/10/2021

It’s been a long, slow, process of trying to reconnect, even before March 2020.

I’m not sure if the pandemic broke me, or if maybe it just gave me the space to see all the ways I’d sort of accidentally fallen, haphazardly into a life lacking intention. Scrambling or hustling or whatever plucky lingo we use to make chronically working past burnout seem like just another Tuesday.

Whatever it is, I feel like I’ve stepped out of a dense fog I didn’t even realize I was in. One that made the panicky feeling of drowning in my own day to day so commonplace I forgot you could feel any other way.

New things are on the horizon. Empowered, exciting, truly connected things and I’m really looking forward to having you join me.

25/03/2021

I bought the clothes. I wore the masks. I counted the calories and starved myself and punished every shortcoming or failure with a treadmill. I prayed to be seen, to be accepted, to be thin, to be less weird. It didn't work. And I was left, looking around, at all the pieces of me I had broken off to be less "too". Too loud, too big, too talkative, too lazy, too strange... too much.  
All these discarded and forgotten bits which were the very things that made me special. I had rejected them, hid them, creating a pallid ghost of myself hoping for the approval of people who never mattered. I'd become so good at it that even once I realized my mistake it would take a long time to give them their space to grow back into the light.

Now, little by little, as I expand my circle of others that have embraced their "too..." I'm grateful I never succeeded in faking my way in to a world that didn't want me exactly as I am.
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24/12/2020

Some really awesome super important s**t for bo***ir education coming from the fabulous Teri Hofford I couldn’t be more excited or more proud of her hard work.
https://youtu.be/tCccgnXoRgg

04/10/2020

It has been a very long time since I did something purely creative. A long time since I did something just for me and when I got the opportunity to shoot this gown as part of a ‘traveling dress’ group I honestly felt a little overwhelmed about what to do with so much choice. I put a call out for models and when put their name up for consideration suddenly ideas blossomed like magic and it felt so good to feel that creative spark ignite after a long rest.

We shot near sunset in field and forest embracing the classic boho-ness of the dress with classic boho settings and imparted a hint of autumn witchy essence. I used editing techniques I’ve never tried before including some with their warm muted tones- quite the stray from my usual contrast and color.

I hope you enjoy these images- their process of coming to fruition have played an important role in healing my heart that has felt so lost these past many months. And a huge thank you once again to Nocti for being so down for anything 🖤.
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30/06/2020

105 days in quarantine. 105 days since I made anything creative with my camera. Giggling for a couple hours with this beautiful human this weekend was a perfect way to get all the brain juices going and just like that I feel like a real person again. The power of community, of creativity, of work you love, and really good people in your life.

Model: .stuck
Dress:
Who makes clothing s-6xl with intention and love

25/05/2020

Woof. Missing my friends extra lots today. Especially the ones I create with. I think it’s the first time since quarantine started that I’ve started to feel that need for creative outlet. I’ve tried my hand at a few new things like digital watercolor which was really cool because it’s so out of my wheelhouse. But I have a tendency to lose interest quickly in things that feel frivolous or pointless (something I’m working on thanks to quarantine).

For a long while I’ve felt out of touch with the creativity side of photography. I really enjoy the business side actually, but I had these ideas, or inklings of ideas, but just couldn’t quite bring them to life the way I wanted them to. But being forced to slow down, step way, it’s been deeply restorative and suddenly I’m beginning to feel excited about the idea of creating again. Not for money, not for content creation, not for marketing, just for myself.

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Francisco I. Madero 333
Puerto Vallarta
48380

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http://www.alchemyportraits.com/

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