Photography is an immensely important field of work. From archiving, to capturing the news - history as we know it has become reliant on great images. However, while this field of practice encourages creativity, news reporting (both good and bad,) it also plays a vital role in how we view ourselves in the era of social media. Pictures and motion get you everywhere, and yet the service of “good” portraiture remains financially inaccessible for a lot of folks.

I wouldn’t be where I am if it wasn’t for folks from my community taking a chance on me, and giving me opportunities to grow, learn and thrive. In order to uplift my community through my practice, I was honoured to be selected by the BLK Gurl team to capture events, and starting this year be able to offer free portraiture for the community.

Here are some of my favourites from the two sessions we ran this year! If you want to continue to break down the barrier for folks to access commercial grade portratiure, please consider donating to the BLK Gurl Team. If you’d like to know when they next portrait day is happening or for other events centering Black Women, Non - Binary and Trans folks head over to the BLK GURL Instagram!