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BEHOLD: some of the film photos I co created with my clients last month. Scanned and developed by Indie Film Lab Sometim...
08/19/2026

BEHOLD: some of the film photos I co created with my clients last month. Scanned and developed by Indie Film Lab

Sometimes I've got more words than I know what to do with.

Other times I've got none.

Suffice to say, July was the best lucid dream I've ever had. Each encounter felt fated. Each person I got to create with was a teacher and friend. No one knows just when or how the muse decides to speak- I'm just damn grateful -- (and frankly a little fumbly with my camera cuz she's loud and she means business)-- when she does.

Never hurts to be assisted by soul, earth and summer sun.

I also felt I should remind the photographers who I'm trying to nudge to purchase my original TEETHKISS content (on sale for just a little while longer!) that I do in fact, still make photos. Grab TEETHKISS if you're ready to make your photos match your guts. It's worth it.

Link in bio.

(TEETHKISS IS ON SALE THRU AUG 22 link in bio)Both these things are true:1. I started my photography business to make mo...
08/11/2026

(TEETHKISS IS ON SALE THRU AUG 22 link in bio)

Both these things are true:

1. I started my photography business to make money in order to survive.

2. It's never been about the money for me.

Can you feel me? Like either a visionary or a total fool, I've always shot my shot aiming for the biggest, truest, most radical things I know; truth, beauty, liberation, alignment. 🕸️. Trying to find my own and help others find their singular note in the song bigger than all of us so we can sing together.

I know what it's like to be hungry and "hustling." Because that's been me most of my life. Growing up one of ten kids. Putting myself through college. As a married "breadwinner." As a divorced single parent (15 years). As a neurodivergent, wild woman, entrepreneur trying to stay afloat and support her children in a system that rewards conformity, self hate, deception, greed, domination and keeps us all disempowered and sick.

I also know what it's like to draw a line inside that says NO. My art will not be about survival alone.

Nor will it belong to my ambition. (Which used to be tremendous, believe me. No shame if that's your game- i just played that game to the place I felt let me keep my soul, then I had to dip)

Nor will my art be about getting validation or giving others what they want from me.

Nor will I let whatever this inner flame in me is that allows me to create ever be bought, sold or owned.

If that weren't true, I would have partnered with Amazon or the dozen other influencer platform pitch whatever--thingamajigs (i never read them that close) i get a week try to hook me with.

I've done my best to do and teach this: Use your hunger as the flame that gives you courage to act. But make the art-- make all you do -- about something bigger. Something that is both SINGULARLY you and greater than you could ever imagine.

This has both confused and pi**ed a lotta people off. They need me to be one or the other. They need me to draw a line. They need me to fit in a box they recognize. They need me to MAKE SENSE. I say NO-- then smile sadly (and cry cuz my feelings get hurt pretty easily) while throwing rainbow confetti as i moonwalk away....

Ohhhh...not much, just a little something on witness, beauty, truth, going broke, liberation, madness, listening, the re...
08/11/2026

Ohhhh...not much, just a little something on witness, beauty, truth, going broke, liberation, madness, listening, the refusal of any box, why I shaved my head and what I've been up to the last several years. 😅

I'm not really great at narrowing things down to a tidy internet post....or anything really. 🙃

Last week, I posted this in my IG stories. So many of you resonated in that human, cathartic, unifying sorta way, I figured this post deserved a permanent place in my grid.

It just took me over one morning, and I couldn't stop writing. I googled who first said "the truth shall set you free," and google's auto ai response said Jesus. 🤣 is that true? Listen, I love Jesus as much as any ex- Mormon, misfit, mountain mystic might-- but is that true???

I hope so. I also hope this text isn't too tiny?? My eyes are getting OLD.

To getting old. To liberation. To beauty. To truth. To living fully alive rather than half or mostly dead.

Sincerely,

the yanagement

Well, July has been a trip. More like one trip after another. More like jewel-lie, Yanada in Canada, I live and work in ...
07/31/2026

Well, July has been a trip. More like one trip after another. More like jewel-lie, Yanada in Canada, I live and work in my bathing suit now, what is love, baby don't hurt me, sacred sites and ritual rights and infinite spirals, and Seattle sweet peas bundles like lovers or friends or anam caras, plus q***r public discos and birthday parties, rivers, tears, trampoline and DANCING, omg it's alll juuust dancing, plus create create create----wait (dont wait, create)-- you didn't think if you kept reading this it was going to turn into an actual sentence, did you???

"If you don't know, act like you know."

I'm done making sense. I'm here to make you feel and live wholly alive rather than waste your life feeling mostly dead. Spoiler alert, anyone can do that because it actually doesn't even cost MONEY. Just pride.

Also, I'm running a sale on TEETHKISS the original content for all of Leo season. $444 bucks babies. Marked down from $1200. The link is in my bio-- or will be by morning.

TEETHKISS is an online workshop for photographers looking to make meaningful work with all their guts. You can do it all by your damn self with lots of videos of me talkin and takin pictures. Basically it's me yansplaining and trying to tell you everything I learned from living thru a lotta pain and traveling the country teaching artists and taking pictures. If you buy it, you might just find your soul or your artistic voice or your freedom.

True love decides.

And did I mention I'm never teaching TEETHKISS THE CLASS ever, ever, EVER again? If not, I tell you about it in my IG stories. Unless you see this post after my IG stories disappear into the void. Then you may just never know... (I'll put it on my substack and probably make a reel. Calm down. But I should warn you, the content is rated PG-13 for extreme spittle build up)

That's it folks. Thanks for being here. Thanks for witnessing, communing and rodeoclowning with me all these years. 💋

Sometimes I don't know how to say what I feel. Then I look up at the sky and think - that. That's exactly how I feel. Al...
06/17/2026

Sometimes I don't know how to say what I feel. Then I look up at the sky and think - that. That's exactly how I feel.

All photos here by wonder-kids Summer Murdock and Ryan Muirhead...except one. Lucky me.

*photographed on the traditional territories of the Paiute and Ute nations.

Tell yo' kids! Tell yo' wife! Yan is coming to town. 🤠📸Ever wanted to make photos together? Swipe right to see my curren...
06/10/2026

Tell yo' kids! Tell yo' wife! Yan is coming to town. 🤠📸

Ever wanted to make photos together? Swipe right to see my current travel locations.

Utah folks, email me for local rates.

Ready to book?
Follow the link in my bio.
Not ready but almost?
I got you.
Email me your questions.

Hail Mary Part Two. Beltane Edition. 🪻🔥🌷❤️‍🔥Limited release 😉 of my favorite songs written and performed by one of my o...
05/01/2026

Hail Mary Part Two. Beltane Edition. 🪻🔥🌷❤️‍🔥

Limited release 😉 of my favorite songs written and performed by one of my oldest and dearest, . Just in time for the holiday. Happy May Day Beltane Scorpio Full Moon to those who celebrate.

Hail Mary (part one).
04/24/2026

Hail Mary (part one).

I’m going to be shouting about Fall Apart all week! Have you ever wanted to help your clients stop performing and start ...
04/02/2026

I’m going to be shouting about Fall Apart all week! Have you ever wanted to help your clients stop performing and start just…being? The Fall Apart Posing Guide is a solid flow and method I have built over the past 17 years of doing just that. Combine posing and not-posing to guide your clients towards their own authentic ease, and watch your images come alive as a result. Fall Apart teaches you the foundation of my process, then gets out of your way so you can make it your own.

Inside you’ll find:
→ 111 curated poses across 250+ pages
→ Detailed descriptions with 2–3 images per pose
→ Prompts + tips for knowing when and how to use each one

Grab it now for only $88. A steal!
Link in bio.
Sale ends April 13.

I’m going to be shouting about Fall Apart all week! Have you ever wanted to help your clients stop performing and start ...
04/01/2026

I’m going to be shouting about Fall Apart all week! Have you ever wanted to help your clients stop performing and start just…being? In a way that’s true to them? The Fall Apart Posing Guide is a solid flow and method I have built over the past 17 years of doing just that. Combine posing and not-posing to guide your clients towards their own authentic ease, and watch your images come alive. Fall Apart teaches you the foundation of my process, then gets out of your way so you can make it your own.

Inside you’ll find:
→ 111 handpicked poses across 250+ pages
→ Detailed descriptions with 2–3 images per pose
→ Prompts + tips for knowing when and how to use each one

Grab it now for only $88. A steal, for real.
Link in bio.
Sale ends April 13.

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