Reviews — Transformational Photography

“For having the eyes and the heart to see one of the places where I need to take a closer look at myself. Thanks for being brave and clear enough to call me out as spider woman and let me crumble around the truth. Thank you for holding the space after that, and shooting me with love. I wanted to let you know it has been a really different world since that decision.”
“It is a willing entry into a world of phenomenon where magic, mystery, transformation and enlightenment come into play.”
“Expertise in asking ‘wonder questions’ which peeled back the onion layers of my ego. Structured to shed healing light into the areas that I don’t often acknowledge. Art visually recorded these diverse aspects of myself, my different personas, as we journey together into the labyrinth of my life. Ability to provide love and support in my emotional unfolding…”
“Traveled through epiphanies and revelations of laughter and tears, finding and exposing my soul’s authentic essence in brilliance to be captured through a master’s camera lens. He’s a light worker, healer, shaman, most curious student of life I’ve ever met.”
“Facilitator, transformational guide, a lover of life. What a beautiful, soft, radically, mind-boggling transformation I experienced playing with Art. I am forever changed in how I see myself and how I choose to show up in the world. And I have a whole bunch of amazing, breath-taking photos to enjoy.”
“For capturing my essence, my playfulness, my heart so beautiful, I feel alive and flowing with blissful energy …”
“I saw myself as a playful, genuine being, willing to take the word as it comes, and express myself willing and with love and authenticity, playing with the moments as I live them. I saw all the different sides of myself, and this time I recognized each one as me. Not trying to be anything as I judged myself the first time, but simply existing. So thank you, Art, for capturing the ‘me’ that I didn’t know was in there. I love you for uncovering me before I did, and still masterfully allowing me the space to find her within myself.”
“I judge you to be a wizard, seer, and a light in others, the Grand Illuminator. I see myself and loved the me that laughs and moves, plays and challenges …”
“You captured nearly every facial expression I make. In your photos I see all of me.”
“Only beginning to grasp the magnitude of this gift you have given me … the gift of this experience of captured time, space and self that we created together.”
“I appreciate the magical ways you captured my movement. Art took me where no one else could. As I told him I wanted to push the edge, he did. He took me on a rollercoaster ride of emotion that included joy, sorrow, playfulness, intensity and intimate connection. The entire ride was captured on film. And now when people see my flyers, they get a feel for the real me.”
“Art’s amazing gift for easing my anxieties, and the patience with which he coaxed me out, resulted in an interior journey that can never be expressed in day-to-day language.”
“I don’t know if it’s the click of the camera, the steady rhythmic dip into the soul that you do with each little look-see, or what the overall causation is. But if your goal is to transform, you certainly hit the mark. When I look at the pictures, I’m filled with a move towards truth. This unabashed feeling of the self in all my parts: fucked up, loved, crazed, feared, longing, devastated, sexy, shamed, out-of-body, sweet, being used to being naked, get angry and crushed … all of it.”
“Arthur provoked the boldness of who I am – the softness, vulnerability and lovability of a woman exploring the knowing, forgetting and remembering who I am, and the awareness that I choose every moment. Every click of the shutter is another part of me.”
“Arthur is a master of light. Knowing how to use light to accent the beauty already present.”
“Arthur unwrapped the dark, or unknown, or unlooked places in me in an unyielding, fierce illumination of love.”
“Some photos make you feel like a passive voyeur of life’s secrets, some make things shining clear so you want to buy them, and then some bring out the architecture and beauty of the human form. Art Durand’s photography easily does all of the above while simultaneously piercing all of the surfaces we’ve come to know in the art of photography. He moves into the art of the human being. And, as one of his subjects, I know.”
“You find that what you were thinking is twisted, turned, and exploded into more layers of living life in that single moment than you could have imagined could be seen in your face, your body, and in that fern behind you.”
“The unique beauty of each moment unfold in a shoot … flexible and innovative while photographing … impressed by the combination of his passion for photography, his extremely professional demeanor in regard for detail, which results in tremendous satisfaction with the outcome of the shoot.”
“I’ve been moving from core all afternoon after the shoot and I’ve been enjoying the new feeling in my body and in myself tremendously. Our session together gave me the opportunity to drop into my essence space, to feel, explore, discover and be in me … this is the me from which I want to be in relationship with a man and the world.”

“It is a willing entry into a world of phenomenon where magic, mystery, transformation and enlightenment come into play.”

“Traveled through epiphanies and revelations of laughter and tears, finding and exposing my soul’s authentic essence in brilliance to be captured through a master’s camera lens. He’s a light worker, healer, shaman, most curious student of life I’ve ever met.”

“For capturing my essence, my playfulness, my heart so beautiful, I feel alive and flowing with blissful energy …”

“I judge you to be a wizard, seer, and a light in others, the Grand Illuminator. I see myself and loved the me that laughs and moves, plays and challenges …”

“You captured nearly every facial expression I make. In your photos I see all of me.”

“Only beginning to grasp the magnitude of this gift you have given me … the gift of this experience of captured time, space and self that we created together.”

“Art’s amazing gift for easing my anxieties, and the patience with which he coaxed me out, resulted in an interior journey that can never be expressed in day-to-day language.”

“Arthur provoked the boldness of who I am – the softness, vulnerability and lovability of a woman exploring the knowing, forgetting and remembering who I am, and the awareness that I choose every moment. Every click of the shutter is another part of me.”

“Arthur is a master of light. Knowing how to use light to accent the beauty already present.”

“Arthur unwrapped the dark, or unknown, or unlooked places in me in an unyielding, fierce illumination of love.”

“You find that what you were thinking is twisted, turned, and exploded into more layers of living life in that single moment than you could have imagined could be seen in your face, your body, and in that fern behind you.”

“The unique beauty of each moment unfold in a shoot … flexible and innovative while photographing … impressed by the combination of his passion for photography, his extremely professional demeanor in regard for detail, which results in tremendous satisfaction with the outcome of the shoot.”