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Nico Nelson Photography

Personal Brand and Portrait Photographer 🌸 Go to my website to learn more: www.niconelson.com

04/06/2026

Tired and yet somehow wired, either a perpetual caffeine hangover or living at the edge of apocalypse/re-birth portal here we are. 📞😒👻

03/17/2026

I have 1 space available for March for one of my healing ritual embodiment photography sessions 📸 🌹❤️

What people say about the benefits of working with me:

- Seeing themselves in a new and more loving way
- Experiencing Soul Retrieval
- Turning fear into FUN in front of the camera
- Finally having images that truly feel like THEM
- Feeling deeply met and understood and supported with a big life transition

This is the power of the witness. When you invite me to see you, what we create is healing for us and for all ❤️‍🩹🌹

03/12/2026

There isn’t any other way I know how to move through the world besides seeing women and the feminine as divine and the center of the universe.

I just want to photograph us forever and create ritual and devotional spaces for art as healing that ripples out through the world and time.

I don’t think it’s a lot to ask really.

I have some 1-1 session spaces open for California in March and then in Europe in April so holler at your girl if one of these is for you and you also want what I want 🌹

03/02/2026

We are unable to imagine a God who proclaims , a God who says , a God who stands not atop the social hierarchy, but at the bottom with the people who have been cast aside, silenced, and forgotten. When god is solely male, he can only show up as fatherskygod who is nowhere near us.
- Christena Cleveland, God Is a Black Woman

Deep bows to for her writing and teaching on the Black Madonna (follow her, read her writing, take her classes)- we are not authorities here just devotees sharing a message of love and what has been healing for us.

The beautiful thing about this path is that it’s one of direct experience. You must contact Her yourself to Know and that is freedom for a neurodivergent non-intellectual like me (nico).

You feel Her and the truth of your own divinity through your BODY and that is what the Black Madonna has taught me thank goddess!!

So we go on pilgrimage in April not to “teach” you anything but to provide space in community to be in devotion together to feel the truth that is undeniable when we connect to the darkness in our wombs and the blood and any part of us that can get connected to the fertile void and mystery - this is the gender expansive feminine.

Come with us to France in April 17-21 on pilgrimage to write, connect to the cosmic womb and literal womb and lay at the feet of the divine mother in her dark, earthy, red, embodied form (the Black Madonna in Marseille and the Magdalene in her caves)🌹🩸🖤

02/28/2026

Now is the time for critical, dissident thinking. For Love with a capital “L” and for cultivating peace in all we do.

Not peace that suppresses as in people pleasing peace but peace that liberates, that comes from true a real understanding and Love.

I turn to my teachers, great thought leaders and people who have lived through war and oppression and violence who chose Love above all.

Now is the time for us to choose who and how we want to be.

I am grieving the innocent children and all those killed by US and Israeli bombs and guns and state violence today and turning towards my teachers as beacons of hope.

As someone who carries the intergenerational trauma of war and colonization in my body I have my own vows to be and spread peace in my life. And it’s not always the easy thing to choose with so much inherited rage within me.

May these quotes give you refuge and empower you to think critically as they have done for me.

Om shanti shanti shanti

02/25/2026

I’m a photographer, and I’m also more than that but I love session work with people who really want to go *there*

And by “there” I mean inside out to where our edges unfold into something profound, undiscovered and yet heart achingly simple.

Booking a session with me is a journey home to a place you’ve simultaneously never been but remember through your blood.

Also it’s fun 😛

Brand + Personal photo sessions available for March in California and April in England and France! 💞

ALSO ps I really would love to start doing pregnancy sessions again I absolutely love them so if you know someone who wants glorious pregnancy photos pls send this to them or tag them!

02/19/2026

We are going to France to return to our wholeness. We go to the cave, we walk in the forest, we listen to our wombs, put ourselves at the feet of the Mother to remember - we are whole and holy in these bodies.

Comment “Magdalene” for more info!!

For those of us who live in the mystical roots of religion we know that all spiritual traditions have sprung from raw, direct experience.

At some point along the way, people, usually groups of men, decide what is truth and what isn’t and that’s how religion forms.

The Council of Nicaea was a patriarchal boys club that convened in 325 C.E. to decide what would become christianity and what would be exiled, excommunicated, buried, and persecuted.

It didn’t just let these other truths go silent into that good night. It brutally persecuted everything that was decided to be wrong, unacceptable, and out of line with a few men’s world views.

Literally. The christianity that exists today is the result of the brutal exile of people (mostly women), direct experiences, nuanced truths, and eco-centric worship of The Mother in all her forms.

The Magdalene, her gospel ,which was found in 1896, and her life was subsequently relegated to obscurity and exile - along with the feminine power and wisdom that would have made christianity whole.

This is what the patriarchy does. It exiles parts of us. It banishes aspects of our being. And does it with punishment, persecution, and brutality.

What the Magdalene represents is the reclamation of those parts. The honoring. The inclusion. She helps us make ourselves whole again.

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Join us for this vibe in France, April 17-21!!

02/16/2026

Truth time ⚡️

Just in case you wondered, I am constantly moving through layers of self-doubt and a core wound of not being good enough.

🕊️

02/05/2026

I am literally in the business of making dreams come true.

You want to feel powerful and embrace your ancestors while honoring your entrance into perimenopause?

Done.

You want to serve CVNT on the streets in a pair of n**e tights without underwear and own your bold ass dreams of being a performer (or rather the fact that you already are!!)?

Done.

Don’t tempt me with a good time because I will go there with you. There are back again and take the wheel.

Some of my fav shots from recent shoots featuring these powerful beings:
to.wild

If you’re not already following them…please do, you won’t regret it.

Here for the full spectrum of expression this year y’all hmu with yours.

02/03/2026

Read some of the Epstein files and had to chant and sing to like 50 deities and smudge the sh*t outta my whole situation over here bcuz WOAH.

Turns out if you have a core wound that you’re a “bad person” that can get cleared up pretty quickly when witnessing the horrors done by actual “bad people.” Those that are letting their most base instincts take over are a real strong contrast to me hating myself just because I sometimes struggle with some very understandable human things. Go figure.

Literally I just want us all to have some perspective. If you are not purposefully causing harm. If you are actively examining the ways in which you may unintentionally cause harm and are taking steps to change that behavior. If you are being a real f*cking person and treating other people, animals, and the environment with dignity and respect you are honestly doing amazing.

It’s a tall f*cking order to be alive right now. And I honestly look around at my friends and community and I’m in awe at how everyone is stepping up to the challenge.

I am inspired by each of you for holding your candle in your own, important, beautiful way. And I am buoyed knowing y’all are here right now so thank you for doing you.

I trust in us. I trust in the power of Love and what can happen when we fully lay ourselves at the feet of it. I trust in the essential goodness of people. Of this life.

We must not let the evil we witness shape us. We must shape IT. Take it and turn it into something that gives life instead of takes it. That heals instead of harms.

I saw a license plate today that said URMGIC - and that is absolutely what we are. Magic. And we shouldn’t forget it.

01/22/2026

It’s not my shame, it’s our shame. We share it. We all know it.

What messages does shame have for you? I invite you to dialogue with your shame too. AND if you can. If you’re willing…share the wisdom your shame has for you. Bcuz lawd knows it feels so good to remember we r not experiencing it alone.

You can read more from this dialogue on my substack - LIB.

AND I want to share that this beautiful opening came through due to an incredible HORSE CONSTELLATION THERAPY session with the amazing whom I have the privilege of sharing land and heart space here in Ojai on Shambala Ranch with.

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