Victoria BC Boudoir Photography | Grateful for each and every one of you

Hello, friend. If you’re here reading this I just want to say thank you. Thank you for being here, thank you for choosing to participate in my journey & furthering your own.

This week I lost my Instagram account to the Puritan overlords, and it was quite heart breaking to lose countless hours of work and energy cultivating that space. It seems trivial that it causes so much distress to my heart, but aside from the loss in energy + connections, it also has a deeper meaner. The active pursuit of censorship and deplatforming of artists, sex workers, BIPOC humans, marginalized communities, and anyone who doesn’t fit inside their “approved” box. The weight of this censorship is not lost on me. I also recognize that I was able to exist on this platform moderately successfully whereas others with less privilege than I may have been removed and put into compromising positions much sooner.

This all hurts, deeply. However my heart was able to find some solace throughout this, in the out pouring of love and support from this community.

I don’t take a single client, follower, supporter for granted - a single opportunity to connect soul to soul and leave my handprint on the heart of another (and have their handprint left on mine in turn).

It feels like I’m starting from scratch, as that account was a huge way in how I connected with people and found clients who wanted to make magic together. But the outreach from so many amazing humans has shown me otherwise. So if you’re still here, and you’re still reading this: thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

PS: if you’re a photographer please create a newsletter list and keep up with your blogs because the social media overlords are coming for us. Love you all and cultivate your communities in spaces you can control and give deeper connection to your people!