Lovely Animals Project // Personal work // San Francisco Portrait Photographer

This is an ongoing portrait project exploring the relationship around a symbol of animal power and the human expression of it. I present the antlers to each person and ask, "How do these make you feel, holding a piece of a wild animal, a symbol of their power?" - the responses vary from Powerful, to Delicate to Conflicted and Savage. We work together to create a variety of emotions with each pose. --and it's a little challenging, these antlers are heavy! The idea is to capture something beautiful and confusing, a bit mystical, emotive and inspired.