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photographing the art of your everyday
I am.
“I love how a photograph captures the unspoken feeling. Evoking an emotion that you simply can’t explain.”
Why hello there.
So happy you are here!
I am a sunshine lover, composition seeker, shadow explorer and colour enthusiast - these words not only spark joy in me they formulate an expression of my visual language, being a photographer.
I crave the sun on my skin, the welcoming smell of my mum's cooking and the feeling of kissing my babies so many times in a day. Coffee is totally my jam, although this is closely followed by a glass of red from my husband's ever-expanding wine collection…
My happiness is hearing my boys unchartable giggles and belly laughs. And my passion is the visual image. Whoever thought that taking pictures would bring such a deep knowing and sense of heart.
I see life in a frame and use my camera as a way to connect with the world around me. Capturing emotional depth and the aesthetic of a moment, exploring compositions that resonate with the soul.
I am Marie. I am a mother, photographer and seeker in the art of the everyday.
My passion is for mothers to exist in the nurturing, emotive moments of life with their babies. Capturing the curated chaos of honest, precious love that represents this season in their family journey.
So, for the Mama’s, the big huggers and the little families. I would love to connect and tell your story. Capturing the centrepiece, that is you.
WE ARE famiLEE.
‘Sometimes you get lucky and find a soul that grooves with yours’ - Author Unknown
It all started with cooking onions and garlic…
And late night conversations, thunderstorm watching, Leicester square kisses and Ikea day dates…….
It was 2006 when I met my biggest love.
Meeting my husband in a London Autumn.
We lived the “Gucci lifestyle” (as we called it way back then.) Cocktail sipping, fine food loving and early morning dancing. Travelling when we could and working the London days (and nights) all the while I was carving out my career.
Our days together had a sense of magic and many serendipity moments; freeing and doing what we love to do.
‘If you want to change the world go home and love your family’ - Mother Teresa
And then there was our X & O.
Our boys.
My 2 little big loves (or you could call it the making of the matrescence) both became my new beginning and our little famiLEE.
These 2 precious souls have given me a love like no other, moments to dream and finding a story that was true to me and my being, through nurturing my authentic vision.
“Mummy, you’re comfy like a pillow!”
Yes, this is what my toddler Xavier loves to tell me; cringey worthy to my body but I love the fact that I feel like home to him. I will have time back again, one day to “work out,” but for now I’m happy to be ‘the comfy pillow’ that makes my child love and hug me the way that he does.
Who doesn’t love that moment when your head hits the pillow after a hectic day - agghhhhhhh and breathe, right!
So for now I will be the comfy pillow whilst continuing to be an inspiration to my babies. To motivate their little minds and hearts, to live and feel a life worth living. To teach them to love fiercely in all that they encounter. Every child deserves love, a childhood and just to be a kid.
I will be an example of what I want my children to learn so they can feel connected, valued, seen and heard. To always embrace kindness into their everyday life and to bring love into their beautiful existence.
‘By nurturing and being present with our children, we are creating kind humans. This will lead to a conscious and connected community. They will become our future community by leading with kindness; to re-create those belonging human connections, the world so lovingly needs.’
MY MANIFESTO
‘To feel seen, to be heard and feel connected, it starts from within. So feel your vision and radiate your inner smile for the good of humanity.’
Photography has given me a voice to communicate and connect, to be intentional with my approach and in search for a visual expression. I just feel called to step into it. I don't have the answers. I don't have to know where this is going to go. Maybe it’s a moment of personal transition where I can come alive and find reverence through my inner knowing. If it means something to me, then there’s just a chance it will mean something to you.
‘By Nurturing the mother this will bring greater love for all.’
Maybe through photography I could give people the experience of feeling the wind go through their hearts, to find that inner smile. To find and share their story, their message. Encapsulating the feeling and making that connection with themselves and others.
Birthed in the undoing
Open up in the receiving
What a relief it is just to feel this,
that in this moment, you are enough.
So today,
I will love myself just a little more,
just as I am. In this moment of time.
