Coming out of my shell 🐚
I’m usually behind the camera — styling spaces, directing shoots, capturing women in their light.
But this time, I stepped into the frame.
Because the way I photograph others is how I see the world: soft, powerful, a little surreal — and always worth celebrating.
Same eye, same instinct — just seeing what it feels like on the other side.
Thank you my dear friend @mashamel for helping me to capture this moment. Photos incoming!
Let me reintroduce myself 🌞
Yulia Lebedeva’s visual world is one of shared dreams and desires, pleasure and sensuousness. Across a broadly female domain, her portraits draw on classical mythologies of deities, power, and seduction, forging links between past and present. Working to imbue her subjects with a positive sense of being seen rather than merely gazed upon, Lebedeva captures the intricacies of human relationships while also querying contemporary conditions of representation, self-presentation, and identity in an image-saturated era.
Text by @annasouter
A difficult post to make, but one I feel I should share publicly.
A few weeks ago, I sent my professional camera equipment — including my Sony A7IV and Tamron lens — to MPB using the delivery service arranged through their platform.
The parcel entered the courier network. The items never arrived.
Upon receipt, MPB informed me that the camera and lens were missing from the package. An investigation followed between MPB and DPD. Despite the equipment disappearing during transit, liability has now been denied.
The reasoning given is essentially that because they “cannot determine exactly how the items were removed,” the loss is being treated as an “unexplained disappearance.”
As a photographer, these are not abstract objects to me. They are the tools through which I work, create, document people’s lives, and earn a living.
What has been most difficult is not only the financial loss, but the feeling of being passed endlessly between corporations, insurers, courier systems, investigations, and terms & conditions — while no one ultimately accepts responsibility for property that vanished within a managed delivery chain.
I’m sharing this not out of bitterness, but because I think people should understand the risks involved when sending high-value equipment through third-party transit systems, even when using established companies.
If anyone working in logistics, insurance, consumer law, or media has experience with similar situations, I would genuinely appreciate hearing from you.
And to fellow photographers and creatives: document everything.
Serial numbers.
Packing process.
Photos.
Weights.
Receipts.
All of it.
You never imagine needing it until you do.
@mpbcom@dpd.uk
At Claude Monet’s House and Gardens,
everything feels considered -
colour, light, placement.
Not just a home,
but a world built over time. Building my world a day at a time…
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