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Lourdes Unfiltered

The Unfiltered Beauty of Lourdes: A Journey to Self-Acceptance In a world constantly bombarded with messages about how women should look, act, and feel, it’s rare and refreshing to encounter a story of genuine self-acceptance and empowerment. That’s exactly what we found in Lourdes, a remarkable woman who participated in my latest portrait series for...

WWII Re-enacting

With re-enacting, the main thing that drew me into that was my interest in War World II, number one, but…I started reading memoirs, combat memoirs and biographies of a lot of the front line soldiers who went over to fight for their country at that time.