the SEEN SERIES
"I would love photos that capture me falling back in love with myself."
Something she shared with me after our portrait session stayed with me. Seeing herself through someone else's eyes gave her a different way of seeing herself. Her response to these photographs eventually became the question at the heart of SEEN: What might we recognize in ourselves if we could see ourselves the way others do?
“My strength has never been about never falling. It has always been about getting up—again and again. I can finally feel that glow up starting, and I would love photos that capture me falling back in love with myself.”
— Meara
the SEEN SERIES
SEEN is an ongoing portrait project exploring the distance between how women see themselves and how they are seen by others. Through intimate black-and-white portraits and each woman's own words, the project looks beyond what can be understood simply by looking at someone. Who is she beneath the assumptions we make? What does she wish others understood about her? And what do the people who love her see that she sometimes has difficulty seeing in herself? SEEN is not about extraordinary stories or defining women by what they have overcome. It is about giving women space to be seen as they are—and perhaps an opportunity to see something in themselves differently.
