Felt like kids again, frolicking in the canola fields with @pansyco ❤️🌼 Dreams come true 💛
I went on quite the wild goose chase 😂trying to find a farmer with canola fields we could shoot with. Thank you Farmer Austin for making this all happen! And for the best team bringing it to life. @_chretienne_@emilystarpoole@annacanfield
Kelly, and a snowy celebration of life, now featured in @cheadsmagazine .
I first met Kelly in 2023 when we connected on Instagram and I shot her swimsuit line in Portugal. This was a monumental project for me — the first time taking a project international and the first time I felt like a brand really trusted my vision. (This also happened to be the project where 4 hours before call time my Airbnb got broken into and all my gear was stolen 😝 but I scrambled and made it happen regardless and still some of my fave images to this day! )
Fast forward to last August. Kelly reached out to me, updating me on her life over the past year. Breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, surgeries, reconstruction. And a deep desire to live life BIG. She sent me an email: “I want to document me at this stage with a photo shoot. But not the typical cancer free or whatever. I want creative and fun.” Because I can. Because I’m literally alive to do it.
What an incredible honor getting to photograph Kelly. Her writings and the images are now featured in @cheadsmagazine . We shot this on the mountain I grew up on with the sunniest day of the year. Sometimes life has a way bringing you right around full circle and what a joy to be a long for the ride. BECAUSE WE CAN! @pr413
Today, our attention turns to Kelly – to the responsibility of “deciding who you become when crisis no longer gives direction.” After a cancer diagnosis came treatment, and then the unfamiliar after: the moment when the medical structure falls away, and you’re returned to life without instructions. Nothing comes back the same. As she puts it, “Survival didn’t feel like a finish line. It felt like renegotiation.”
And with it came the snowkini series she had imagined for years, shot on film with a vintage sensibility, rooted in nostalgia, presence and physical freedom – a refusal to postpone, and choosing the moment anyway.
“You’re returned to your life without the illusion that it’s all going to hold together.” What follows is a conversation about moving forward without guarantees.
Photography by @clarin__j
Muse: Kelly @pr413
Full post on #cheadsmagazine
