SPIRITS PORTRAITS EXPERIENCE

Capturing you, using photography as a tool for embodiment and expression, reflection and connection.

01 Mia Gilmore

03 Suzannah Batty

02 Natalie Taliana

04 Meg Ryan

The Details

The Journey

For me, the word ‘spirit embodies our connection with nature and the unseen. It feels elemental and ancestral. It’s feels unchanging, and ever-changing.

Spirit Portraits has evolved with every new experience and person I create with, both within photography and outside. At its core, it‘s a vision for seeing more clearly.

As I have grown, so has who and what I capture. At first, it was taking photos of my sister in the backyard, commanding that she wear her hair in a side pony, pop her hip and pout her lips. It was then my friends and I filming ourselves on holidays, creating mini surf movies. It was early mornings with my dad, chasing light and slow shutter speeds. It was capturing my pop in the community garden he built, surrounded by all of his favourite things. 

Today, Spirit Portraits is a way of inviting people to be captured through my lens. It’s an opportunity to acknowledge where we are on our journey, and to anchor in and document these moments in time. These sessions are a process of exploring our relationships—with ourselves, the natural world, and our collective. 

Photography isn’t just about what we see with our eyes—it’s about seeing with all of our senses.

Acknowledging all of my teachers and those who have inspired me to do this kind of creative work, in particular to Glenn and Sue Duffus, Susie Hemsted, Carolyn Hickey and Thais Aquino.

Caity x

“We all begin as a bundle of bones lost somewhere in a desert, a dismantled skeleton that lies under the sand. It is our work to recover the parts. It is a painstaking process best done when the shadows are just right, for it takes much looking.“

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves