Jade made me feel comfortable, loved, accepted, excited, and free. She made me feel beautiful.
I moved to Tucson and found a photographer online (Jade Beall Photography) who did artistic and healing photography for women. She really moved my soul and her photography never stops making my heart tremble. I really feel like she captures the divinity in people. When I found her, I told a very good friend in Illinois about her and shared her work. Then, for my birthday, my friend purchased a photography session for me for my birthday. I was so excited to have this experience, to have someone bring out the beauty in me, and to become part of her portfolio. She is so gifted. This was my first real experience with Self-Creation in front of someone else's camera. She made me into something beyond words for me, and I have never gotten over it.
Shortly after having my picture taken with her, she went viral with a photo and became internationally known. I have lost touch with her since, but I feel her all over downtown. She had a studio on 9th Street, and I remember going there in a used dress, and just having a ball. No makeup, no jewelry, no shoes, no special props, just myself and joy. She will forever be part of my experience in Tucson and her work is breathtaking.
I offered our promotions services to her one time, in the beginning, and we never followed up about it. But she went viral shortly afterwards, and it might have been better for us, since we were first starting out. I am not sharing her pictures now for her business, but more for the fact: I never have been able to share her before, and say how she impacted my life, how she made me feel gorgeous, uninhibited, and free, and I have never felt such freedom before in front of the camera.
Photos by Jade Beall Photography, circa October 2012
