MY APPROACH

creating a loving container

commitment to truth & honesty  

you feel safe, heard & understood 

guidance with deep love 

commitment to being gentle with self 

everything is welcome

love all parts of yourself 

nothing is unlovable 

listening to what wants to be seen 

experience your many selves

making contact with all of you 

exploring

noticing 

moving energy 

revealing essence 

a magic mirror 

a playmate 

feel a sense of freedom 

full range of expression

transformation

becoming

MY PROCESS

INTAKE & INTENTION

I want to hear it all. Where you’re coming from, where you’re going, what you’re seeking, and who you’re becoming. Together, we will discover when the most poignant time will be to create images together and what’s needed to create the right container for your shoot.

MEETING RESISTANCE

After our call, you might feel triggers arising. I’m here to talk through what’s surfacing. Our photoshoot begins the day we schedule our discovery call. I’ll be available for anything that comes up as you prepare to meet for our session together.

SHOWING UP

This is, by far, the hardest part. And you don’t have to go it alone. We’ll take our time, as we slowly and gently ease into your shoot so that you to feel comfortable and relaxed. I always set aside an entire day for your shoot so we can stay patient with a natural, emergent process as it unfolds.

THE JOURNEY

As we both listen into your innermost heart, and as we both listen into the present moment, we will find our way. Often, a shoot begins with the persona. But every part of you is welcome to show up here, and we take our time with each, embracing all of you. Change our location, change your clothes, change your mood. I am here for you as you unwind, explore, stay curious, and go deep. This is where the magic happens. In being witnessed with deep love.

REFLECTIONS

After our time together, I will send you a batch of images. But I don’t just toss you a link in your inbox, I meet with you virtually so we can unpack them together. Seeing the many facets of yourself can be enlivening, evocative, and tender. Together, we tame your inner critic and lovingly explore how to see yourself, your essence, with reverence.

INTEGRATION

Over time, you may revisit the images and see something new. I want to know about what’s arising for you. I want to hear about how our time together sparked and kindled your healing, your growth. I love to reconnect, in your time, to support your process in all that we shared.

“Being photographed by Art Durand is no exercise in vanity.

It is a willing entry into a field of phenomenon where magic, mystery, transformation, and enlightenment come into play. With Art's expertise behind the camera and his heartfelt, compassionate expertise in asking 'wonder questions' we peeled back the onion layers of my ego structure to shine healing light onto the areas I don't often acknowledge. All the while Art visually recorded these diverse aspects of my 'Self', my different personas, as we journeyed together into the labyrinth of my life. His natural ability to provide loving support in my emotional unfolding encouraged me to go deep in unloading stuck energy from past experiences.  And this re-awakened inherent light in me as I reveled in gifts of my history not previously realized.

I traveled through epiphanies and revelation, on laughter and tears. I came away feeling electric, ecstatic, and filled to the brim with joy, all for finding and exposing my soul's authentic essence and brilliance to be captured through a master's camera lens. Art Durand is no mere photographer. He is a light worker, a healer, a shaman, the most curious student of life I've ever met, a facilitator, transformational guide and lover of life. The value of this was more than the fantastically documented results of my visual quest toward spirit recognition. It was supremely valuable to be seen, felt, appreciated and embraced by the highly conscious embodied spirit who is Arthur Durand.

I encourage you to come play in the field of his artistry and you will come away in enriched appreciation of who you are and how you are seen in the world, with visions of your magnificence still to be realized.

Kevin Spitzer | SparrowHawk

“The experience began before even one picture was taken and continues even now.

 Art is a masterful wizard for invoking both the sexy goddess, and the total innocent...all in one photograph.  He captured my polarities and assisted me to feel my wholeness through my imagined contradictions.   I felt myself melt through my own layers, with his loving presence, to remember, see and experience myself in ways that I previously had only imagined.

Audrey HazeKamp

“When I think of you, I think of the power of your attention, your laser-like ability to see through my outer layers and capture parts of me on film that I knew were in me but that I couldn't see.

It's as though my experience with you unearthed and showed me where I wanted to go next - to have my inner radiance reflected back at me by how I show up in the world. And, I have been naturally heading in that direction ever since.”

Kate Rouze

COMMON QUERIES

  • During your free discovery call, we’ll find a day that feels good and easy for you.

  • Your photoshoot can happen at your own home, a studio, a favorite place you feel most alive. What matters most is you feel comfortable and we can talk more about this on our call.

  • We set aside the day for our shoot. When we begin is flexible. If you're a morning person we’ll begin earlier, if you’re more of an evening person, then we start later.

    We explore until we’re done and we will both know when that is. Suddenly, we’ll look at one another and say something like, ‘yes, we’re complete for now’. I’ll pack up my gear and leave you to take excellent care of yourself.

  • Absolutely!

  • Bringing a friend is rarely a good thing. Here are my feelings/thoughts about this. Boils down to this. Something I read years ago in a book about Frank Fools Crow. He said something like this, “it’s difficult to change when everyone around you is reminding you of who you’ve been”.

    You are coming to be seen anew, fresh, no stories, no baggage, no have to’s, no should’s, no body to remind you of who you’ve been. You’re showing up to be discovered, seen, appreciated, loved, evoked, celebrated, danced alive into playing with who you’ve always been but have been waiting to show the world.

    With this, is your time after the shoot. This is a precious time, a time of holding close your experiences, your revelations, your celebrations, understandings, ah ha’s, and WHOA’s. It will be a time to take all of this to your dreams, your waking moments of wonderment, your moments of emptiness when suddenly something brand new comes into your consciousness and you blush with excitement, swell with joy, giggle with glee or just breathe gently into a new sense of yourself.

    Sharing your experience too soon, as well as your images, with another invites perspectives from someone who has known you and wasn’t there. There are those who can be absolutely for you, listen without putting in their thoughts and actually be a space for you to explore further and this takes a special kind of person. If you have that person, perhaps they can be there, maybe drop you off and pick you up afterwards. Cook you dinner and tuck you in after a good long day of self discovery.

  • I’ll put up a password protected web gallery just for you. There will be somewhere between 30-75 images. If you’d like, we schedule a call to go through them together the first time.

  • You’ll be able to order prints directly from your personal gallery. In your gallery, you’ll be able to choose favorites. This is a powerful thing to do and here’s the reason. As you come back your gallery, come back to see yourself over and over again you’ll begin to see yourself differently. You may see images a month later you never saw when you first went through them. Why? My thought is it takes time to see the magnificence of ourselves, time to let these new reflections of yourself shine through to your own heart. As you assimilate more, you are able to take in more. And this is why selecting favorites is a good exercise. Very often your favorites will shift and that, to me, is a wonderful thing.

  • You will not own the copyright of the images of you. The copyright will be mine and you may use your images for whatever you want short of selling them for stock image use or things of that nature. If you’d like to rent a billboard and have your amazing heart beaming across the highways and byways, you can absolutely do that. Seems like a wonderful thing to me.

  • The images we create together are yours but for the copyright. The images of you do not go into circulation, are not sold or published. I may want to use some images of our time together along with some words from you about your experience to help others understand more about what happens during a shoot. The more of these the better as everyone’s shoot is unique. Before I put anything up on my website, you will be shown the images for your approval. Totally up to you.

  • If you find you absolutely can’t get yourself in to be in front of the camera, I’ll understand. We’ll work something out depending upon how close to the shoot date it is.

    Here’s the thing.

    There’s often a protective part in us who doesn’t want to be seen for one reason or another. Usually these parts are trying to keep us safe and these parts are afraid of things changing. And they have every right- because things are going to change. You are going to say things, express things, show aspects of yourself and once seen, well, there’s no going back to the way it was.

    So, let’s love up that protective part of you leading up to your shoot date. Let’s explore how we can create safety for you to emerge in a way that honors all parts of you. Tending to your integration is an important part of our process together.

  • Click here to book a free discovery call

    Or email me:

    transformationalphoto@gmail.com

    There’s no such thing as too many questions.

    Someone once said to me, “The first people had questions and they were free. The second people had answers and they were enslaved”.

    Once we book a shoot, you’ll be able to call, text, email or send up smoke signals.

    We’ll talk about anything you need to talk about so you feel as clear as possible to begin your shoot.

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