A few days ago, my photos were published in the April issue of
@vogue.polska , a story I created for the amazing brand
@joyinme_yoga together with an incredible team
@andrea_regues @zairadivielma @tutajmakeup
Some time ago, a publication like this might have felt like something I didn’t truly deserve, mostly because I was constantly comparing myself to others. And honestly, that wasn’t something I really had for most of my life. It only started to shift recently, probably with what Instagram has become. Somewhere in all of that, I came across a sentence that stayed with me: your art is not the art you like, it is the art you actually create and simple as it sounds, it is true, and it really made me think.
So knowing that this publication was going to happen and allowing myself to believe in it started to feel natural again, so natural that at one point I even felt a bit guilty about it. I didn’t rush to get a copy the day it came out. I actually waited two days because I simply had other things going on.
I was going to write that teenage Natalka, who used to collect those magazines, wouldn’t believe it. But honestly, she absolutely would. This isn’t about a success story, because success means many other, more important things. It’s about following something that has always felt aligned and true to me.
And soon it will be: I did a beautiful job, and it found its place on page 161 in Vogue. Which, honestly, is great, because that’s exactly what it is in the end.
