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Phoenix Rising — The Visual Series
Project type
Photoshoot
Date
January 2026
Location
Sugar Camp, WI
Credits
Shelley Novotny, Designer and Vision
Amanda Anderson Studios, Photographer
Emily King, Model
Rainey Jordens , Makeup and Hair
Documetary Filmmaker and Videographer, Nate Sheppard
Videographer, Andrew Egan
Photoshoot
Photoshoot for a Documntary Fiilm
Project 1: Phoenix Rising — The Visual Series
This photographic series captures the embodied expression of Phoenix Rising as created for Nate Sheppard’s documentary. Through elemental textures, layered adornment, and grounded yet powerful presence, the imagery reflects transformation not as performance — but as lived experience.
Fire is symbolic here, but the rising is real.
Each image holds the tension between vulnerability and strength, ash and ascension, surrender and sovereignty. The wearable art becomes both armor and offering — a visual language of rebirth shaped by reclaimed materials, earth tones, and movement.
This series documents a threshold moment: the claiming of creative authority and the quiet, undeniable return to self.
