Flora.
You can call me Flo. Sensitive human, freediver, animal lover, recovering perfectionist, finding myself through art. Sydney-based, and travelling anywhere I’m invited.
I came to photography late, and on purpose.
I didn’t set out to become a photographer. I set out to feel more at home in myself, and a camera turned out to be the way in. Somewhere between the first roll of film and now, other people’s love became the place where I make sense of my own, and I stopped being able to imagine doing anything else.
I’m neurospicy, and I’ve stopped pretending otherwise. It’s half of why I’m good at this. I can go from one hundred percent hype to completely quiet, and I’ve learned to use both: I’ll bring the vibes up when your dance floor needs it, and go so quiet during the vows that people ask afterwards where I was standing. I feel everything in a room. All of it ends up in the photographs.
When I’m not photographing people, I’m underwater. I freedive: forty metres down and back on one breath. My dad hates it. I love it. It’s where I learned patience, calm, and that the best light is the kind you wait for.
I grew up in a house with four cats. I’m allergic to cats. I loved them anyway, which tells you most of what you need to know about me. These days the great love of my life is my sister’s chihuahua, Ramón, and yes, if there’s a dog at your wedding, I will photograph it, and pet it, with permission.
“Recovering perfectionist” means I’ll obsess over your photographs so you don’t have to. Every frame gets culled, edited and second-guessed until it earns its place in your gallery. The recovering part means I’ve learned that a slightly blurry photo of you laughing is worth ten sharp ones of you posing.
The camera is the last thing I think about. The first is whether the person in front of me has stopped performing yet.
We were nervous. Flora made us forget the camera was even there. Our photos look like us, not some staged version we don’t recognise.
- You’d take a quiet, true photograph over a loud one.
- You want a record of the day, not a performance of it.
- You trust the person holding the camera to make the call.
- You can sit still inside your own life for an afternoon.
Sound like you? Then write to me.
Two short steps, no obligation. I reply within a day or two.
Prefer email? hello@florapeoplephotography.com.au