In this episode of Photography Adjacent, I chat with Mervyn Reid Nelson, the body confidence photographer behind You At Yours. On the surface his work looks like boudoir photography, but Mervyn is at pains to point out that it is something else entirely. Over eight years and 800 sessions he has built a practice around helping people, mostly women, see themselves clearly, often for the first time. When it gets down to it, Mervyn explains in the episode why the photograph is almost beside the point. This is a conversation about bodies, power, desire, and what it means to feel seen.

In this conversation, David Shoukry shares his journey from a musician to a successful portrait photographer. He discusses the evolution of his unique style, the importance of client relationships, and the transition to educational photography. David also reflects on the impact of his studio space on creativity and offers valuable advice for aspiring photographers.

In this episode of Photography Adjacent, I sit down with Sissela Johansson — an editorial portrait photographer from Denmark, based in Sweden — to talk about burnout, hustle culture, and what it really means to build a photography business on your own terms. Sissela shares her experience of chasing the American dream, reaching six figures, and ultimately realising that outward success felt hollow without inner alignment. The conversation weaves through the pitfalls of copy-paste photography education, the underrated power of community, and the importance of knowing your own values before making any business decisions.

I've had six studios over the course of the last five years, and each one of them brings a different character to the type of work that I do, whether that be in the background walls or the flooring, or the position of the windows to produce different types of light, the size of the space, the height of the ceiling, or in something less tangible - the atmosphere in the space, whether it feels like a domestic space, whether it feels like a creative workshop space, or more of a corporate office space.