sunrise beach boudoir session | ft. Rachel Tenpenny

lately I've found myself feeling a bit demoralized. I've been labeled as a “persistent violator” on instagram for sharing my boudoir work [and had to have a conversation with a robot to even find that out]. as a result of my refusal to accept that a grown woman’s curves are ever inherently offensive, my posting privileges have been revoked, and it seems there is no obvious recourse for me to try and get them back.

it feels dystopian, to speak with artificial intelligence about how its algorithm has been trained to find the living, breathing bodies of women to be “explicit” and “sensitive.” the images below are meant to be somewhat of an answer to that.

I wanted to play with light and shadow, to celebrate the way that a woman’s curves are not unlike the natural shapes made as wind and water mold the sand, how her limbs are the same as those of the trees that give humanity shade and oxygen and countless other resources. I wanted to showcase a woman completely merged with these elements and spaces, all to say that both She and the Earth are not only beautiful and worthy of protection, but essential to the continuity of Life itself.