A year that changed everything and what’s coming next
If you’re reading this, you were part of it and I need to thank you.
Hey my love,
I’ve been sitting here trying to put words to this past year and honestly, it’s impossible. There were moments filled with such breath taking joy that I still don’t have language for them. Moments I sobbed because it felt like the adversity would crush me. Everything felt so big and meaningful but there were also moments I doubted it all. It never failed though….in each blip of time I was reminded again and again that this work is so much bigger than photos. So much bigger than me.
Now sadly this trip has hit a HUGE bump in the road that lead to a pivot I was not prepared for. My sweet Monroe (14 year old fur baby), had a medical emergency that required my immediate return to Raleigh. So we packed up camp in Pittsburgh and made the 530 mile push home for her surgery on Friday. I am happy to report that she is doing well and is just a happy (and high) puppy who is on the mend.
But what that means for me is that this magical trip is ending in a way I was not prepared for. It feels a little like someone ripped the ending out a novel I was loving, leaving little jagged and scraggly pieces behind that I am now trying to piece together. The sadness I feel is immense and I am allowing myself to mourn the loss of what I thought life was going to look like. In the same breath, I KNOW that every single thing happens for a reason and that there is a beautiful silver lining on the other side. I just have to be patient and wait. This is not a failure, it is an invite to pivot.
And pivot we shall. Because this year’s motto seems to keep coming back to the pivot. When I left I was on the hunt for something more and what I found was profound. This work isn’t about perfect poses or pretty lighting, it’s about watching people come home to their bodies, sometimes for the first time ever. It’s about witnessing softness where there used to be shame. About catching an exhale and not pull your stomach back in. It’s about the sentence I hear more times than anything else: “I didn’t know I could look like that.”
So if you booked me, replied to an email, whispered to a friend about wanting to work with me, or even just quietly read these words…you have been part of this movement. And I don’t take that lightly. I carry you all with me in ways you may never know and it continues to fuel my quest for more, to help more, to impact more people, to continue to shine my light as a beacon of hope in what sometimes feels like a really dark world.
So here’s where we’re heading next.
2026 is going to be the boldest, most intentional year of my life and my work. I have cherished every single person that I got to work with over the last 10 years and the art we created, but I know I can go deeper. Sessions will be more impactful. More cinematic. More truth over performance. Kinkier. More sensual. I am building experiences, not photoshoots. Identity shifts, not content. I want to make intentional strokes with my artist brush and I want it to feel like I am coming home to my art, just like you are invited to come home to your body.
And because you are literally the reason I get to do this, I’m opening 2026 bookings to this email list first, and giving you something I won’t offer publicly:
→ $499 product credit back on any session booked from this email in the next 7 days to be used towards the luxury products of your choice.
→ + 2 luxury set upgrades (Honey, Champagne, Kink, or Wet - $300 value).
This is my thank-you. My “you matter to me.” My this-work-doesn’t-exist-without-you. An offering of love to the people who have continued to love me through the mess, through the hard days and through the journey.
No pressure. Just an open door…before the rest of the world gets access.
If you feel 2026 is your year…reserve your session here. Discounts and extras will be applied after booking.
Truly, thank you. For being here in whatever way you are. For being part of something that I truly believe is changing the way humans see themselves. For leaning into softness when the world wants us to harden. And for showing up for yourself in ways that break generational trauma. You are loved, you are deserving, you are worthy and you are so cherished by me.
With love, reverence, and fire for everything ahead,
Katelyn
We love you!!!!