Model: Janessa Swaby
MUA: Deanna Bigas
May 2013

Miniver Sail live at the Casbah, Hamilton
May 1, 2013

Fantastic music, and fantastic people.
Check out their Facebook page and Bandcamp.

Model: Janessa Swaby
MUA: Deanna Bigas
May 2013

Thanks for a great shoot girls :) More to come.

My final project for this semester is now up online! A huge thank you to all of my subjects for allowing me into their homes and sharing their stories. Please feel free to let me know your thoughts.

The Pageant

“…This series is a collection of environmental portraits made of young women in the Greater Toronto Area who have participated in pageants. Each image features the subject in full pageant dress, shot in various areas of their homes. The photos are meant to juxtapose very personal and intimate aspects of each girl, and their very public image as an ideal of beauty…”

Some outtakes from my newly-finished project on pageant participants and winners. The final images will be uploaded soon! 

A film featuring my performance of the makeup process, and certain adornments to satisfy a very westernized idea of beauty. I want to highlight the tedious, slow, and clinical aspects of such process, and the obligations and turmoils that one may experience when facing these societal expectations as a young woman.