Kobey Beauchamp Photography

06/01/2026

Thank you to everyone who has been voting for me in this competition!!

Voting ends on thurs to get me into the top 5!! I appreciate everyone who has supported me and my journey!!

https://peoplesartist.org/2026/kobey-beauchamp

05/28/2026

Hope is a Dangerous Thing, Winter Garden, FL, 2026 / Art

I became so consumed by my own mind
that even hope started to feel dangerous.

There are moments when the mind
becomes so overwhelmed by anxiety and depression
that it begins to feel impossible
to separate yourself from them.

Living inside those thoughts
can feel trapped between wanting relief
and struggling to hold onto yourself.

The weight of these thoughts can become suffocating.

There is a particular loneliness
in fighting your own mind every day
while the world continues
as if nothing inside you is collapsing at all.

There are wounds the mind creates
that no one else can fully see.

I did not notice I had become a ghost
until I could no longer recognize
the person still standing in my place.

05/27/2026

My Mind on Fire, Winter Garden, FL, 2026 / For Ryan

Some thoughts become so loud
they begin to consume everything around them.

The mind becomes a place of collision,
where fear and anxiety blur together
until nothing feels still anymore.

Intrusive thoughts slip so deeply into existence
they become impossible to separate from reality,
turning the act of remaining present
into a slow unraveling.

There is an exhaustion
in carrying too much for too long,
in surviving beneath the weight of thoughts
that never fully quiet down.

Eventually, silence and destruction begin to sound the same.

Some forms of suffering become so familiar
they start to feel like identity,
like something stitched permanently beneath the skin.

And at a certain point,
the fear is no longer losing yourself,
it is realizing how long you have already been gone.

05/25/2026

Melisa Irizarry and Dakota Treloar, Coronado Springs, Walt Disney World, Orlando, FL, 2026 / Portraits

05/24/2026

Ashley Rosine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 2026 / Portraits

05/15/2026

Thank you to everyone that helped me make it to the top 20 round in the competition!!

I appreciate everyone who has supported me through my career and now we gotta vote every day to get me into the top 15.

Thank you again for everyone!

05/13/2026

Ever since I started my photography career, my dream is to have my work displayed in a gallery.

I’ve been selected for Johnny Depps Peoples Artist competition to have my work featured in Artforum Magazine and have my art displayed in an exhibition.

In order to make the top 20 round I would need votes to get me there I would appreciate anyone who has supported my work and who can vote!!

I Love Creating Art Because It Lets Me Romanticize The Parts Of Life That Once Hurt Me.

04/22/2026

Make a Wish You Can’t Wash Away, Winter Garden, FL, 2026 / Art

Some things are only supposed to exist for a moment.

You close your eyes and ask for something, expecting it to stay small, something that disappears as quickly as the candles go out.

But what if it didn’t?

What if the things we wish for didn’t fade
what if they changed us in ways we couldn’t undo?

Because some desires don’t end when the moment does.

I used to think making a wish was harmless.

A wish is supposed to disappear.
But some don’t.

And once they do, there’s no way to go back
to the version of you that never made them.

You think it’s just a moment.

But instead, it stayed long enough to turn me into proof that it ever existed.

04/17/2026

The Life We Missed, Winter Garden, FL, 2026 / For Victoria

It’s strange how someone can feel like they’ve always been part of your life, even when they weren’t.

How two lives can move completely separately, collecting different years, different versions of ourselves, until one moment brings everything into the same frame. Like we were always meant to cross paths, just not at the same beginning.

We didn’t grow up side by side. We didn’t share the earlier versions of who we were becoming. But somehow, none of that matters the moment we exist in the same space.

There’s a version of life where we met sooner. Another where we never met at all. But this is the one that actually happened, the one where timing didn’t give us everything, but gave us enough.

And maybe that’s what makes it feel so certain.

Because even if the timing was different, I don’t think anything about this would change.

And the worst part is knowing there’s no version of me that doesn’t find its way back to you, even if we had never met at all.

02/26/2026

Then & Now

Ten years ago, I picked up a camera and I started capturing moments. I didn’t know I was capturing my evolution. I thought I was just capturing the world, it turned out I was capturing myself. Photography became my escape.

A way to step out of reality, even for a moment, and show the world how I see things, through my eyes, through my imagination. I started to treat every frame like a scene in a film, composing moments like cinematography, shaping light and color to tell a story that only existed in my mind.

Over time, this escape became my language. The colors, the shadows, the way I moved through space, all of it became a reflection of how I felt, how I thought, how I imagined. Each image became a small portal, into memory, into fantasy, into the way I experience the world.

The work isn’t just about technique. It’s about obsession, about creating a space where I could be honest, vulnerable, and bold all at once. I didn’t just show the world how I see, I showed myself who I could become.