ABOUT THAIS
I wasn’t always someone who took up space.
I come from a long lineage of women who swallowed their words, softened their edges, and lived in the in-between, between what was felt and what was allowed. For years, I lived inside a quiet contraction, where expressing my truth felt dangerous, where my voice was buried beneath layers of fear and silence.
Photography came to me not as a career, but as a code, a way to speak what my voice couldn’t yet say. It cracked me open. It became a language I could finally trust. Through the lens, I found a way to see what was sacred, subtle, and unseen, not just in others, but in myself.
My journey with Soul Portraits is a journey of unhiding. It’s about honoring what is tender, cyclical, messy, wild. It’s about reverence for transitions, for the moments when we are no longer who we were, but not yet who we are becoming. I work with women and healing artists in these exact thresholds. Not to fix. Not to pose. But to witness.
I live between worlds, between Hawai’i and New York. Each land I’ve touched, each ocean I’ve prayed to, each sacred pause, teacher and relationship initiations has shaped the way I hold space. I don’t work with formulas, I much rather cultivate presence. I attune to what’s alive in you, what’s ready to be remembered.
I am a healing artist, mentor, muse, somatic guide, yet I resist being boxed into any title.
And I’m here, not to define you, but to remember you, with you.
For over five years, I photographed beauty and lifestyle campaigns in New York for brands like L'Oréal, Garnier, Coca-Cola, Bloomingdale’s, and Glow Recipe. My lens has moved through luxury hotels like The Fairmont and The William Vale, and captured iconic faces like Jessica Alba and Yaya DaCosta.
My photography has been featured in renowned publications including:
W Magazine, British Vogue, OprahDaily, Glamour, USA Today, Parents, HuffPost, Refinery29, ABCNews, and PopSugar.
I now bring that same standard of artistic excellence into deeply soulful, honest work.
I used to shoot for the biggest brands.
Now I guide the deepest artists.
I carry an ancestral mission to contribute to collective healing, a quiet urgency to liberate hidden parts: sensuality, voice, presence, truth.
There is a sacred ache in me to honor the poetry of women's seasons — motherhood, aging, rebirth, the spaces between.
Time and again, I’ve noticed: the healers, the space holders, the midwives of culture, arrive at a threshold where something in them is ready to be freed, to be seen.
Soul Portrait was born for this. I create photography as a healing art. A somatic, ancestral, deeply devotional practice. My clients are often artists, teachers, healers, leaders, and mothers, people who hold space for others and rarely get to be held themselves.
Soul Portraits are where you come to meet the part of yourself you thought no one could see.
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