Yéss Pt 2.

Here is the second part of the shoot

Modelo: Yess Lerma

Maquillaje y Peinado: Marcia Roman

Vestido: Nadia Vazquez

Locación: Undsprfcto

Fotografía: Monica C. Salomon

Yess Pt 1.

After months and months and months I managed to gather some motivation and plan a shoot.

To be honest, the pre-production of a photoshoot is NOT EASY.  First I have to think about the look and feel that I want for the photographs and then start to look for people that would suit that look.

I have to look for a model, stylists, make up artists and someone who wants to colaborate with clothes. Fortunately, I found an amazing team and they were all super helpful and talented.

I don't consider myself a girly girl, but lately I've been liking the color pink and getting so much inspiration from it, so I decided to make it the principal subject of the shoot.

This is part 1of 2 of this day long day of photographs!

Model: Yess Lerma

Make Up and Hair: Marcia Roman

Clothes: Kaes Ropa

Styling: Terri Miller & Patty Torres

Location: Undsprfcto

Photography: Monica C. Salomon

Pretty things can come out of scars.

One time I read something along the lines of: 

“There is people that still thinks that pretty things can’t come out of scars”

Let me tell you: they can.

pretty things come can come out of scars.

they come with a ravishing force waking you up at the middle of the night.

they come in the form of obsessive thoughts.

of anxiety attacks.

and tears.

For me, all of this is beautiful.

I have scars because of all of that.

Or I have all of that because of my scars, I don’t really know.

some people think that you can choose not to be like this.

but let me tell you again: you can’t.

thats why they are called scars.

scars fade, but never go away.

for some you are a walking complication.

to others you are chaos.

sometimes you cry black, sometimes you cry pink.

but don’t you get it?

pretty things can come out of scars.

Maybe I am a walking complication.

maybe I am chaos.

Or maybe you are.

Maybe this is me trying to convince myself that pretty things can come out of scars.

-M

Monica.

Self Portraits.

December 2015

(I've been having the worst writers block ever, so yes, this is shit)

I will die too (I GROW FLOWERS SERIES)

I grow flowers.

I always have.

I do my own thing because it is only me.

and it will be only me for quite some time.

I grow flowers.

I plant my own seeds and grow them.

But sometimes I find myself watching them die as well.

I sit and watch.

and I watch them fade.

I watch the weather do its thing.

the heat do its thing.

I watch the world do its thing.

and sometimes I sit there not doing my thing.

I grow flowers.

I plant my own seeds and grow them.

but yes, sometimes I grow them and kill them.

sometimes I never let them bloom.

I want to let them bloom.

I want them to bloom so much so that I could get lost in them.

get lost in a beautiful garden.

get lost in such beauty and never be found.

I want to live in a never dying garden.

a never dying spring.

a never dying happiness.

But I am human.

and just like everything else I will die too.

-M

Self Portraits
May-July 2015

(I took this photos in May and I just got around to upload them)