Noel McGuinness - Morningside AFL Legend
2021
In collaboration with Feros Care, Katie is seeking to ensure seniors across Northern NSW and the Gold Coast feel visible.
Using her storywriting and artistic styling skills, Katie will take key snippets of life stories, and together with her team take highly artistic photographs of seniors showing that beauty never fades, we just lose sight of it.
It has always been a passion of Katie's to ensure that our elderly feel not only loved by others but feel a strong sense of self-worth.
This project is her gift to help spread self-compassion, understanding, and visibility.
In addition to gifting the participating seniors with printed and framed images from their photoshoots, print outs of their life stories and digital copies of the above; we aim to host multiple exhibitions of these important works across the country to showcase to everyone how important our seniors are and how much they still have to offer all of us, we just need to give them time. We are also considering a coffee table book, podcast and a TV slot.
https://www.feroscare.com.au/visible-me
Throughout July I had the absolute honour of meeting and interviewing 30 dynamic, interesting, and incredibly different seniors across our region, with ages ranging from 80-100 years old.
I am currently transcribing these interviews to put together snippets of their very diverse lives.
In September we finally got a Covid break and were able to photograph the 9 Queensland based participants. Everyone was thrilled to see a full photographic studio being set up in their homes and loved the banter between all of us working on the shoot. I could see people fill with joy that all these women were fussing over them, doing their hair and make-up, styling them, and ensuring they were comfortable and felt incredible, like the incredible people they are!
These moments reminded me of what an important thing it is we're doing with this project.
Click here to see a few of the 'Behind the Scenes images and videos from these shoots.
In collaboration with Feros Care, Katie is seeking to ensure seniors across Northern NSW and the Gold Coast feel visible.
Using her storywriting and artistic styling skills, Katie will take key snippets of life stories, and together with her team take highly artistic photographs of seniors showing that beauty never fades, we just lose sight of it.
It has always been a passion of Katie's to ensure that our elderly feel not only loved by others but feel a strong sense of self-worth.
This project is her gift to help spread self-compassion, understanding, and visibility.
In addition to gifting the participating seniors with printed and framed images from their photoshoots, print outs of their life stories and digital copies of the above; we aim to host multiple exhibitions of these important works across the country to showcase to everyone how important our seniors are and how much they still have to offer all of us, we just need to give them time. We are also considering a coffee table book, podcast and a TV slot.
https://www.feroscare.com.au/visible-me
Throughout July I had the absolute honour of meeting and interviewing 30 dynamic, interesting, and incredibly different seniors across our region, with ages ranging from 80-100 years old.
I am currently transcribing these interviews to put together snippets of their very diverse lives.
In September we finally got a Covid break and were able to photograph the 9 Queensland based participants. Everyone was thrilled to see a full photographic studio being set up in their homes and loved the banter between all of us working on the shoot. I could see people fill with joy that all these women were fussing over them, doing their hair and make-up, styling them, and ensuring they were comfortable and felt incredible, like the incredible people they are!
These moments reminded me of what an important thing it is we're doing with this project.
Click here to see a few of the 'Behind the Scenes images and videos from these shoots.
The Visible Me Photos and Stories
Click through to see the incredible photos and moving stories we captured with our Queensland participants.
Due to Covid-19 we've had delays getting the northern NSW photos completed, however they are booked in for Mid-November, so check back late-November to see the 20 participants and their powerful photos and moving stories.
Due to Covid-19 we've had delays getting the northern NSW photos completed, however they are booked in for Mid-November, so check back late-November to see the 20 participants and their powerful photos and moving stories.
My Team
Martyna Celeste
Martyna is a talented photographer who brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the Visible Me project.
Coming from a wedding and portrait photography background, Martyna always makes her client feel effortlessly at ease, beautiful, and in good humour. She has won a multitude of awards and commendations for her work.
Visit her personal site at Life, Love and Light Images.
Sarah making over Janice
Sarah Duffy is the make up artist for half of our Queensland participants. She has been a professional hairdresser for over 14 years and more recently a makeup artist. "I am so thankful to have a career that I love so much - It is not just the artistic aspect of the job that I love, it’s my clients. When I can transform how someone sees themselves, turn them into the character they love or find different ways to connect with neuro-diverse children - It’s what makes this job so special and rewarding".
You can find her on Instagram @lilli_gwyn_mua
Emilia making over Lyn
Emilia-Maria Krenzel has been a makeup artist and hairstylist for nearly 7 years, and worked with half our Queensland participants.
"I am passionate about makeup as I struggled with self-image growing up, and slowly obtained my confidence in learning to do my own make up, and that is where I found my love for it. I love making people feel beautiful, seeing themselves in another light and sometimes even changing their perception of how they look and who they are. I always try and advance their natural beauty in most situations, unless asked to create something different". Emilia has received many awards including being placed in the top 3 Australian Bridal Makeup Artists of the year in Queensland, and winning in 2018.
Find her over at www.emiliamaria.com
"I am passionate about makeup as I struggled with self-image growing up, and slowly obtained my confidence in learning to do my own make up, and that is where I found my love for it. I love making people feel beautiful, seeing themselves in another light and sometimes even changing their perception of how they look and who they are. I always try and advance their natural beauty in most situations, unless asked to create something different". Emilia has received many awards including being placed in the top 3 Australian Bridal Makeup Artists of the year in Queensland, and winning in 2018.
Find her over at www.emiliamaria.com