Please welcome Natasha Komoda, founder of Femmeography, who is now a Seattle-based Regional Photographer for A Beautiful Body Project for any women in the Seattle area who would like truthful photoshoots without digital augmentation. Read on to learn what inspires Natasha & why we selected her!
My goal: convince women that they are beautiful without trying...without time-consuming styling and photoshop alterations. It’s very simple - all they have to do is just breathe.
I believe that a woman is at her most beautiful state when consumed with positivity in the present moment. A photo session focused on movement and booming music (of her choosing) causes self-conscious, negative thoughts to drown away. This process allows the creation of beautiful portraits - photographs of the woman completely immersed in the light of her own love and acceptance as she dances and moves around the room.
Why is it important for women to know that they are beautiful, you ask? Well, I know from personal experience that there is a lot of wasted time and energy that goes toward feeling sad, angry, and dissatisfied with our bodies. Once I truly accepted and learned to love my body, I noticed how much extra time and energy I had! This is what I want for other women - to be able to focus on living their lives fully and positively.
What would happen if women conserved the amount of money and time they spend on make-up, hair products, fashion, and crying on the bathroom floor about how ugly they are? Where could those extra resources go...Travel? Volunteering? Quiet “me-time” that we’re always complaining about not having?
So, I challenge you with this - get over yourself. You are beautiful, trust me. How about you skip the concealer and hair styling today and use that time for self-healing and fun. Of course, if you need a little more convincing, I am happy to photograph you to show you how absolutely gorgeous you are...all you have to do is breathe.
Here are the Femmeography experiences of three beautiful women I had the pleasure of working with, in their own words:
Anya
“Normally I experience my body in extremes: alternately, a clunky mass weighing down my soul or a proud certificate of steadfast starvation. Natasha encouraged me, “Beauty is waking up in the morning, breathing!” So I puffed out my cheeks, messed up my hair, and burst out of my imaginary corset.”
Marie
“I am a larger woman with a missing breast and a huge scar-all due to cancer therapy and recovery. When you come out on the other side of a near-death experience you tend to quit worrying about your vanity and have a vastly different view of your self-image. [During the session,] I felt completely at ease and really liberated. I showed my scar and and am glad that it will be shown in an honorific and beautiful light. I also hadn't felt that flexible, graceful and gorgeous in years. I was nearly giddy when we finished. The experience of just being seen and have it be reflected in such a positive way will be with me forever.”
Amy
“I just…move…and dance…and spin and spiral into the place where I no longer care. Because there was a time, before the veil of invisibility began falling with the turning of my 40th year, before I was divorced and felt ugly and unlovable, before society’s ironclad ideas of beauty overpowered my own, that I felt completely free. Femmeography therapy is about forgetting and remembering.”
Natasha Komoda is a Regional Photographer for A Beautiful Body Project based in Seattle, Washiongton, USA.
To learn more about Natasha & her work: Click Here
To book a session, contact her at [email protected]
Website: www.femmeography.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/femmeography
Twitter: www.twitter.com/femmeography
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