Photography Afriel: freelance

New year.. new office!

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2014 was a fantastic year, and by far one of the biggest highlights 
had to be Graham and I buying our first home in October. And with this 
new home came something I have wanted for longer than I can remember: an
 office space! 
 
A few months have now passed since we 
moved in, and for a while this room was half-office, But now that all of
 our worldly possessions have been tidied away and the moving boxes have
 gone in the recycling, I now have a dedicated space to work in and I am
 just so excited and grateful. 
 
It's a work in progress 
but I am already really happy and can't wait to see how this room will 
evolve over time. I've always struggled to "switch off" from work at the
 end of the day, and now that I'm no longer working in my bedroom and 
finally have a door separating my work and our home life, it will be 
really interesting to see how this impacts our life (and my business) 
for the better. 
 
So with a nice tidy workspace, goals 
for the next year set and all my work from 2014 safely archived away.. 
I'm ready for you, 2015!

2014 was a fantastic year, and by far one of the biggest highlights had to be Graham and I buying our first home in October. And with th...

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I have to be honest - these photos nearly didn't see the light of 
day. Despite liking the result, I felt so bound to my style of 
self-portraiture: the dead flowers, the vintage dresses, the standing in
 fields, that I felt that these didn't deserve to be shown if they 
didn't add to my cohesive portfolio of self-portraits. 
 
So I closed down Lightroom and walked away from my computer. They'd just stay there. 
 
A
 few hours later it hit me - as somebody whose entire being is defined 
by their photography, maybe a big part of loving and respecting myself 
is embracing these bursts of inspiration and letting them take me in 
whatever direction my work wants to go. To let my personal work evolve 
naturally, without constraint, worry or pressure.

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I have to be honest - these photos nearly didn't see the light of day. Despite liking the result, I felt so bound to my style of se...