blake@blakemyscoskiephoto.com
Hello Friend,My name is Blake Mycoskie and above all else I LOVE LIFE and I LOVE PEOPLE. However, the last 2 years that was not really the case. For a number of reasons I now understand, I experienced a deep depression the past two years that led me to a place where I found myself at the end of my rope. I was in total despair and questioning whether I could continue in such pain.
Thankfully, with the help of an amazing family, supportive friends, therapists, a plant medicine journey, a spiritual pilgrimedge, and some appropriate medicines, I started to feel like myself again this past January.
As part of my healing process, I made a list of all the things I used to do that brought me joy that I had somehow abandoned over the years. One of them was photography. In the early days of TOMS, I took my Leica camera on all the trips and loved photographing the kids and people we met along the way.
As I thought about this, I had an idea to study portrait photography, get a coach and get good enough that I could make amazing portraits of the people who have had the biggest influence in my life for my first 50 years. I would spend the next 18 months traveling around photographing all these people and then on my 50th birthday I would display all the portraits in a gallery, invite everyone, and celebrate the influence they have had on my life, and at the end of the party, give them a coffee table book with all the portraits.
I am a few months into the project and this portfolio represents that work and some other new friends and beautiful souls I have had the privilege to photograph. In doing so, I truly feel I have connected with my ikigai, igniting a passion I have not felt in many years. I hope you enjoy these special moments as much as I did capturing them.
Carpe Diem,
Blake
Lover of Life“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.”