HUXLEY BIRD

Kat 🌱 Part 1 💔

Added 2024-01-19 08:15:27 +0000 UTC

Hey friends, writing to you from Hawaii. I'll be here for the next few months, creating new art and cleansing this year away.

This is Kat, she wanted to make art out of how she was feeling. It was pouring rain and she was visiting from Canada and we only had an hour. I wrapped my camera in a plastic bag, shot with one hand while holding an umbrella over me with my other hand. I directed her, mainly reminding her why we were shooting and what to think about and things to try. Yelling, throwing herself to the ground, crawling/grasping, tearing at her clothes, letting herself be held by the earth, going numb, running... some kind of Photo-Therapy session.

"All the content we see if of people at their best. No one wants to be seen at their worst. I want to capture psychological pain at a very profound level." -- another client had written that to me and I shared it on my instagram. Kat saw this and asked me if I could help her do that.

So what I love, is that even though we talked about it a bit, and I did guide her through it, the whole thing felt real/candid, very emotional, and produced something closer to stills out of a movie. For me, this is a breakthrough shoot. All shoots are pretty intimate, vulnerable, emotional and sensual for the models, but this is the first time that we intentional set out to capture exactly what the person was feeling in that moment as the purpose of the shoot.

This is part 1, this isn't even what we intended to shoot. We started in the grass. And then we went down to the mud. I'll share those tomorrow.

Hope you enjoy, thank you for sticking with me ❤️

XOX

HUX