Storytelling: Photography
The photography of Skywoman Earthwoman is a visual archive of culture, spirituality, and the quiet ways people stay connected to the Earth. Through a lens shaped by anthropology and holistic healing, this work explores the richness of human experience from rituals and ceremonies such as the Yemanjá Festival or Kambala, to landscapes that hold memory and myth, to wellness practices rooted in Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and global earth-based traditions. It documents rites of passage that honour life’s thresholds of pregnancy, and birth, and the many forms of nature-led healing, from herbalism and homeopathy to ancestral cooking and plant medicine. Each photograph is an invitation to see the world with reverence, curiosity, and a renewed sense of belonging.
Rituals & Ceremonies.
Rituals and ceremonies reveal how cultures honour spirit, community, and the unseen. This collection documents traditions such as the Yemanjá Festival in Brazil, the Ryukyuan religion around nature spirits and animism in the Okinawa islands of Japan to Sufi whirling in Türkiye, and Balinese full-moon offerings, moments where devotion, rhythm, and symbolism come alive. From water blessings to fire rituals, these images preserve the ancestral practices that continue to shape identity and meaning across the world.
A Sense Of Place.
Every landscape carries a story. This section captures the essence of place, from the golden Sahara dunes at sunrise to Nubian villages along the Nile, and ancient stone circles in Stonehenge. Whether in the markets of Marrakech, the jungle canopy of Brazil, or the seas of Greece that still hold tales of Zeus and Poseidon, these images explore how land holds memory, myth, and belonging. Land is a living being thing and is our biggest teacher, having witnessed wars, tsunamis, genocides, and above all regrowth and rebirth again and again and again. The land heard the whispers of our previous generations.
Wellness & Holistic Practices.
Across cultures, wellness is woven into daily life through simple, intentional rituals. This section highlights holistic practices such as Ayurvedic preparations in India, the crafting of herbal medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine, yoga in natural landscapes, sound healing, Reiki and more. Each image reflects the universal desire to return to balance, breath, and inner clarity.
Rites of Passage.
Rites of passage mark our most meaningful transitions. This section documents coming-of-age ceremonies, bridal preparations, ancestral honouring rituals, pilgrimages, and more. From birth blessings to final farewells, these images explore how cultures around the world commemorate change, identity, and the thresholds we all cross. I’ve been blessed to document the Indian Ritu Kala Samskara, also known as Ritushuddhi, celebrating a woman’s menstrual cycle, in addition to La Cerrada, closing of the bones ceremony for postpartum women, weddings, pregnancies, newborns, but not in the conventional way… more so as a means of documenting something ancient and wild and sacred.
Healing Through Nature.
The older I get the further away I seem to go from western medicine and allopathy. As someone who’s name is a flower, and as someone who grew up between Cyprus and Switzerland, nature has always been my number one source… During my late teens and early 20s, I numerously suffered from conditions like bronchitis and I wish that I tapped into the healing properties of foods and plants earlier, for once I did, it cured everything.
Nature offers its own pharmacy, its own nourishment, its own quiet wisdom. This series follows earth-based healing traditions across culture… herbalists gathering plants at dawn, homeopaths preparing remedies with intention, foragers picking organic vegetables with care, women grinding spices for ancestral recipes and cookbooks and elders teaching the medicinal properties of roots, leaves, and flowers. From Ayurvedic kitchens to forest apothecaries, from wild-harvested teas to fire-cooked broths, these images explore how nature provides the medicines, flavours, and rituals that nourish the body and restore the spirit.
