Anna

cool people, vol. 2

I met Anna at a photo walk in Acworth and when I asked her how she got started in photography and she started with, "I had just learned to sew and was working in a flea market..." I knew it was going to be a good story.

As time went by, her family, friends, and flea market customers helped sharpen her craft by employing her seamstress skills — and then a new type of client started coming in to have their garments repaired.

"They were bringing me costumes and things… things I had never seen before," Anna paused and looked at me from under her brows as she said, "cause they're strippers." She laughed.

They loved her work — it was a match, and that was that. She was the new in-house seamstress and house mom, and soon enough her creations and muses needed proper documentation… and so began Anna's career in photography. She started doing photoshoots with a sheet as a backdrop, a film camera and a lot of hairspray - true glamour portrait photography from back in the day. Twenty or so years later, she's picked up the camera again, this time with a heartfelt mission.

She seeks to help women find their light again after it's been dimmed. Anna hosts and photographs boudoir photo shoots for women who have endured abuse and grief and are ready to find themselves, their power, and their spark again.

When she isn't behind the camera, she works as a hospice nurse with people who are on their way out of this life. Another perspective of a light chaser, if you will. (Which is what we photographers are, light chasers!)

If you're in the Acworth area and interested in boudoir photography - consider reaching out to her at Blue Heart Photography. She frequently hosts photoshoots with multiple models and other photographers! She is inclusive and community centered - a gem of an individual.

So happy we crossed paths! Such a cool person.