Intimate Fat-Positive Portraits with Ms. A in Las Vegas | Body-Positive Photographer in Seattle, WA

Intimate Fat-Positive Portraits with Ms. A in Las Vegas | Body-Positive Photographer in Seattle, WA

I met Ms. A in a hot tub in Vegas. No, seriously. Those of you who know me know that Vegas isn’t my scene and are probably doubting this story already, but I swear it’s true. At the last @naafaofficial conference there was a delightful pool party after hours, and Ms. A and I met…

Gardening with Mx. O | Body-Positive Portrait Photography Sessions in Seattle, WA

Gardening with Mx. O | Body-Positive Portrait Photography Sessions in Seattle, WA

Environmental portraits — where the subject is involved in an activity or an environment they love — are some of my favorite photographs to create. Almost everyone is more relaxed when they’re doing something they enjoy in a place they like to spend time! For Mx. O’s session, we chose a topic together: gardening. I…

Camp Heal for Project HEAL: Eating Disorder Recovery Event Photography in Los Angeles, CA
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Camp Heal for Project HEAL: Eating Disorder Recovery Event Photography in Los Angeles, CA

Some events are just events. Some events are transformative for everyone involved, and Camp Heal was one of the latter. Around a hundred people gathered in Angeles National Forest for three days to explore, laugh, cry, improve their body image, be vulnerable, move forward in recovery from eating disorders, and enjoy a body-safe camp experience….

Beautiful River Portrait Session in Washington State with Ms. G | Body-Positive Photography in Seattle, WA
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Beautiful River Portrait Session in Washington State with Ms. G | Body-Positive Photography in Seattle, WA

It’s generally quite cool year round here in the Seattle area, but in the summer it can get hot enough to make a dip in a nearby river refreshing. Ms. G and I spent her body-positive Confidence portrait session at Flaming Geyser State Park (named for a flame created by coal miners discovering a methane…

Wildest Dreams Session with Ms. D at Red Rock Canyon | Body-Positive Photographer in Seattle, WA

Wildest Dreams Session with Ms. D at Red Rock Canyon | Body-Positive Photographer in Seattle, WA

This plus-size beauty queen and Nevada’s Red Rock Canyon = magic. It was 95 degrees at sunset, but luckily Ms. D is used to the heat and I had plenty of water with me, so we took lots of breaks and it worked out fine. Better than fine, in fact. She’d chosen a sparkling sequin…

Ask a Fat Creator: Sculptor and Artist Chrissy Brown
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Ask a Fat Creator: Sculptor and Artist Chrissy Brown

Chrissy Brown is an artist who works primarily in 3D, and as a fat, disabled, queer, femme she wants to make sure she and others like her feel welcomed to take up space in the world. Her subject is fat liberation and body positivity, and she’s trying to strip away all ‘performance’ we, as fat…

Small Business Visuals: Thekla Richter, Author & Coach

Small Business Visuals: Thekla Richter, Author & Coach

Thekla Richter’s small business branding photography session was so much fun! The weather cooperated perfectly, which is rare for Seattle in November: a beautiful sunny day with air crisp enough to keep us from getting sweaty. Thekla (pronounced Tech-luh — I was dying to know, too) writes middle-grade fantasy books (ask her about the space…

Portrait and Boudoir Photography without Toxic Beauty Ideals: An Underpinning

Portrait and Boudoir Photography without Toxic Beauty Ideals: An Underpinning

I do still believe that there’s value in teaching people how to enter the walled city of acceptability, even if just for a day. But it’s the value of teaching self-defense to women who walk dark streets. It’s the value of teaching a left hook to a bullied child.

Big Beautiful Heroines: An Interview with Fat-Positive Author Pat Ballard
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Big Beautiful Heroines: An Interview with Fat-Positive Author Pat Ballard

Authors who write long-form works like novellas and books seem to get the short end of the stick with the Internet, I sometimes think. Unlike us photographers, who regularly produce pretty visuals to post on social media, authors work just as hard at their art but have less to show for it in the short…

Body Love Box February Sneak Peek: My Stretch Marks are Sexy (with Transcript)

Body Love Box February Sneak Peek: My Stretch Marks are Sexy (with Transcript)

Today I’m demonstrating how one of the products for February’s Body Love Box gets from my supplier to your box. Take a sneak peek at the item, a My Stretch Marks are Sexy enamel pin from Golden Tooth Club, and see me prepare an individual pin for inclusion in the box. The transcript of the…

Body Positive New Year’s Resolutions: The Complete Resource Guide
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Body Positive New Year’s Resolutions: The Complete Resource Guide

Depending on your personality and life commitments, the turning of the year may be a time for deep peace and reflection or a wild whirl of parties and celebrations. But as New Year’s Day approaches, many of us are becoming more aware of the day’s ever-present accompaniment: Resolutions. New Year’s resolutions are by their very…