We live in a world of loud headlines and perfect images from social networks. Unfortunately, authenticity and the virtue of being oneself without masks and facades are not too widespread in the media space. However, it's comforting to see that this trend is being recognized and gradually changing. More and more people who come to me for a photo session ask for live and natural photographs of themselves, their family, or their mastery in a certain field.
What is valuable to me in photography?
The sincerity of emotions, feelings, and those moments we are living now. I strive to reflect through photography your natural manifestation in the world that triggers the creative process, not its simulation or conformity to certain imposed images. Your individuality is what is valuable to me.For me, it is valuable to see in you, first of all, a living person. A person who has their own values, stories, experience, one who is endowed with feelings and experiences a wide range of different emotions and states today.I strive to be sincere first and foremost with myself and to honestly transmit myself to the world. And I am overjoyed when similar people come to me to interact through photography. I thank you!
My approach
Speaking of my approach in photography, I try not to get lost in the search for forms, angles, and light, but to capture what is essential. It's about capturing you in it. To convey your values, your meanings through photography. To preserve the moments where you, are you. Sometimes by moving away from what we think about it.My approach is careful and attentive, gentle, where there is room for everything, and there is room for life.
My approach is about the space we create together. This space is free from judgments, criticism, and condemnation. A space of acceptance. This space is the guarantee that our joint session will be created naturally and interestingly for both me and you.Also, a session with me is about the value of the present moment, about what we already have today, about who you are today, about being aware. Noticing this is very important, just as capturing it with photography is.
That's why we always communicate with you before the photo session. We allocate time for a live meeting consultation if possible, or communicate through video link or chat.We prepare for the photo sessions. I help by consulting you on all the questions and concerns you have about the process, assist with finding the location, and everything necessary for our photo session. We can create a mood board or references, what we would like, how we roughly see it, make a map of our journey.
I direct attention to the fact that it's also important for us not to have excessive expectations regarding the final picture and not to forget to surrender to the process during the photo session, leaving room for creativity.
It is important for us to know what we want, but the process of the photo session is also important. Enjoying the process of the photo session and feeling its participant is no less important!If it's a family photo session or a session for a couple, I suggest discussing all the details in advance. Both with me and with your close people, with whom you will be photographed.
It's important that your partner or family have a common vision of this process and enter into it with their own desire. That they participate in the preparation process to some extent, feeling involved in it. Then the process will be more pleasant for all its participants.If there are children at the photo session.(Read more in a separate article)
Children
I suggest not forgetting that children are also participants in the photo session, and the process may not go as we adults plan and see it. And that's normal, that's life. As a mother of a 5-year-old daughter, I understand you very well, and I know how much resource goes into the preparation for the photo session, and on the day of the session itself, I want to ask you to be more attentive to yourself and your children, possibly not planning additional activities that take a lot of resources and energy on this day or the day before the photo session. For children, this is usually a big event. And let's remember, it's not the children who initiated it. And children tire quickly and don't have the same focus as adults. Especially when it's their first photo session.
Support your children in this experience. It's great to prepare for the photo session in advance if we have the time resource, it will give you a certain peace of mind. And on the day of the photo session, on the contrary, I advise you to let go of control in the process itself and allow this celebration to happen with you.
I will help make this process as comfortable and pleasant for your family as possible.I really want that in 10 or 20 years, when we return to archival photos where you or our creation, our product, our family are depicted, that we recognize ourselves there. Exactly ourselves. That we could engrave this memory with warmth in our hearts, as one that was about our life and our values at that period of time.Let's create moments beautifully, let's be this beauty. I will help capture and convey your values through photography.Hugs.
Hugs Julia Myroniuk.
