When I started photography, no one was lining up to work with me. I searched, I reached out, I got ignored, and slowly I built trust one collaboration at a time. Today it’s different. Most models contact me. This article is the honest story of how that shift happened, why trust matters more than tricks, and how respect, patience, and genuine human connection completely changed my creative life.

There is something special about the last day of a HEATWAVE Escape. Everyone slows down, the villa feels like home, and the best moments suddenly stop being planned. In Málaga, that moment arrived somewhere between the final barbecue bite, the last bit of sunlight and the realisation that I had barely even photographed the pool all week. So we picked up the camera again, laughed our way through the last light and somehow captured the exact feeling of a trip that no one really wanted to end. Warm light. Easy energy. A villa full of life. And Cheyenne, right in the middle of it.

The strongest photographs don’t just show something. They make you feel something. They live in that beautiful tension between control and chance, between what really happened and what your mind invents around it. In this piece, I talk about that magic, and why it’s at the heart of my photography.

We have worshipped naked marble gods, censored nipples online, and argued about the human body for thousands of years. The problem has never been the skin itself. It is the fear, rules and hypocrisy we build around it. Let me explain.

Not every sexy photo is a thirst trap. Sometimes it is not a performance, a strategy, or a plea for attention. Sometimes it is simply someone feeling free, confident, powerful and alive, and choosing to express that without shame or apology.