I've struggled for my whole life with self confidence.

I'm finally at a place in my life where I can recognize my strengths and successes and wanted to capture that on film. I treasure the art of photography because it can capture things within us we could never see in the mirror.

I wanted to celebrate loving myself for exactly who I am.

Transparently, I thought I would feel more unexpected emotions. I thought, in some aspects, there would be this tremendous sexual awakening where I would feel some hidden power I did not know was there. That might sound a little dramatic, but I sometimes feel pretty suppressed, so I was expecting a lot from myself. But I can't stress enough how important it is to me that everything felt normal. That, in its own right, meant a lot to me. I was comfortable. And because of that, I felt like I could just be myself.