Hey you!
It’s Kotryna here, I finally decided to do it. I started a newsletter! I have been putting it off for way too long just like I do with most things on my to do list.
I’m gonna try to keep this consistent. I like writing a lot, especially about something deep. I like questioning things and I really like talking about photography. This newsletter will be a bit about everything. I’ll share whatever comes to my mind, so it will be a slightly different topic every time. I’m happy to take you with on this journey of my life.
I have a big trip coming up starting December so I wanted to start this right before I leave. I will be sharing stories and thoughts from my travels alongside with a lot of photography.
So far my main source of ‘letting my thoughts out’ has been Instagram but lately I’ve come to realise it’s not a super friendly platform. I want to make this place more personal and free. I wanna share whatever I feel like sharing without being judged. You’d be surprised how much people do judge.
I’m gonna start off by sharing a couple of self portraits from the beginning of July, 2022. I had gone through some stuff mentally over the past couple of years and was slowly getting back to myself. At this point I had stopped feeling so anxious as I used to do but was still not fully mentally stable, you can really see that on my skin. To me a lot of creativity and my best work usually comes from sadness. Isn’t that ironic.
pics taken about 15min apart.
I started feeling so happy and so grateful for life it hit me when I started traveling again. Just recently in the beginning of October I went on a trip to Nepal. It was my first trip to Asia. I had 0 expectations (learnt that from experience of having too many expectations always leads you to disappointment). So this trip was beyond amazing even tho I did get sick and did not feel 100% myself most of the time. I still enjoyed every minute of it! I can share more about that on the next couple of newsletters but for now I will share some photographs I took with my little point and shoot camera, samsung slim zoom s145. A camera that my dad found in the trash room of his building in central Stockholm a couple of years ago. It just once again shows that photography is really not about the camera it’s about what you see.
That’s all for now. Thank you so much for reading I hope you’ve enjoyed it and that you will come back and read more!❤️
Feel free to leave a comment or let me know if you have any thoughts or if you have any specific topics you would like me to talk about in the near future