Photography has been my passion for so long, since I was a little girl playing with my father’s Polaroid. I just realised how, through this passion, I got to live the life I live today. Back then, everyone told me it was silly to leave my safe corporate job to study photography. EVERYONE.
And here I am, all the big, life-changing experiences came through photography. It brought me to Australia, gave me citizenship and allowed me to stay. I got to work around the world and met people, places and parts of myself I wouldn’t have met otherwise. I feel like everything started from that one decision.
Through this journey, I also found people trying to push me down, trying to make me doubt myself and my skills. The times it worked were the times I was already doubting. It took me a while to own it, but I know now that no one can make you feel small unless something in you agrees.
I am the only one responsible for how I feel and I get to choose wha I believe, what I carry and what I let go.It was easy to blame others, or life in general. But the moment you see it and take ownership, something changes. So thank you to everyone who challenged me in that way, who doubted me, it helped me understand myself better and sharpened something in me.
I’m so grateful for this passion, for having something that keeps calling me, that gives direction, that gives me a reason to move and create and to keep going even when things don’t make sense.
Passion can change your life if you follow it and the people around us are part of that too. We get to choose who we keep close, people who see us, who remind us of what we’re capable of. We can walk away from those who don’t.
I can’t wait to see where you take me.
