SHANNON KATHLEEN PHOTOGRAPHY

About Me

Hello! I am Shannon, a single mother to the sweetest and most wonderful 16 year old boy who’s life goal is to become a professional golfer. I will be marrying the man of my dreams at the end of June 2021!! I grew up in the northern suburbs of St Paul, Minnesota.

By day I work full time as a Certified Medical Assistant in a Dermatology clinic. By nights and weekends I am a self-taught artist and photographer who is bound to the craft of photography by feel… I am super deeply and emotionally connected to each photo I take. This art is my passion and my creative outlet; in front of camera as much as behind it.

As a photographer, I strongly believe in the importance of getting in front of the camera myself. This allows me to have more empathy and compassion for those I am photographing.

Pulling others out of their shell is what I’m passionate about… you see, I was THE shyest person in the entire world up until the age of 14 or 15. I was soooo uncomfortable in my own skin. I hated it. I talked myself out of it and decided to do everything that made me uncomfortable, to tear out of my shell. Then I never looked back 😉

I want to inspire others to tear out of theirs ❤❤ So I started to take self portraits. I even wrote an eBook on how to create your own self portraiture — you can check my eBook out HERE

Self-Portrait work (click on image to enlarge)

Quarantined

“All of the world, people are being quarantined and are being compelled to practice social distancing. We are trying to desperately to remain sane in a world that seems bordering on the insane. So, the time is just right for us to ponder, reflect, meditate, and discover the world within our own minds.” ~Avijeet Das

Hope

“We will come out of this storm. In the coming days, we have to stay calm and confident. And for sure, we will overcome this moment of despair. How long this will last cannot be ascertained. But the one thing that we can be sure of is that we will not be the same anymore. Hopefully, we would have changed for the better. This is the way of life. This is how life teaches us its lessons.” ~Avijeet Das

The Storm

“The storm is out there an every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pray that it will shake you to your roots and break you wide open. Being broken by the storm is your only hope. When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you. Some people never get to see what is inside them; what beauty, what strength, what truth and love. They were never broken open by the storm So, don’t run from your pain – run into your pain. Let life’s storm shatter you.” ~ Bryant McGill

Take me back to sunshine and warmth

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.” ~Candace Bushnell

A new tattoo (it still has the bandage on) 😉….

“Don’t think for a second you are not a badass warrior. That’s precisely your problem, you don’t realize how amazingly brilliant and super kickass you are. Your potential is only limited by your mind.” ~ Melody Lee

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.” ~Vera Nazarian

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” ~John Joseph Powell

“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.” ~Paulo Coelho

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~Lao Tzu

“Love can only be found through the act of loving.” ~Paulo Coelho

A FEW OTHER TID-BITS ABOUT ME OUTSIDE OF MY PASSION FOR PHOTOGRAPHY:

My son, myself, my Fiancé and his 2 boys have an obsession with super hero movies!! We go see all the super hero movies the day they come out! I find them super exciting and the gorgeous men in them aren’t bad either 😉 I’m a total comic book movie nerd 😉
I love to read!! I will read any way I can whether it be an actual book or by listening to audio books. I tend to read a few books at a time and have read More about 100 books in the last year. A few of my favorite authors as of late are:

Colleen Hoover … she tends to write beautiful love stories with lots of twists and angst 😉
Brene Brown … everything she writes is profound and makes so much sense to me; I swear by her words like a bible.
Blake Pierce … this man writes about leading women heroine characters who are FBI profilers in his serial killer crime novels and I find them to be the most intriguing!

Publications:

Published in Bella Grace Magazine, Issue 18

A self portrait of mine published inside! Read more about it **HERE**

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Shannon OMalley__www.shannonkathleenphotography.com.jpg — Published on the COVER of Bella Grace Magazine, Issue 17

**Read** my blog post about this publication

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Shannon Kathleen Photography | Bella Grace Issue 15 — Published in Bella Grace Magazine, Issue 15

I wrote an article about teaching my son photography. **Read it here.**

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Shannon Kathleen Photography | Bella Grace Magazine Cover 2017 — Published on the cover and in Bella Grace Magazine, Issue 11

My image IS THE COVER and I have a personal feature inside the issue!! Read more **HERE**

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{Click “Read More” below to read about my first publication}

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My First Publication – Bella Grace Magazine Cover

Shannon Kathleen Photography | Make Minnesota — Published in Make Minnesota Magazine, The Vision Issue / May 2018

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Cover of Make it Minnesota Magazine — Published on the cover of Make Minnesota Magazine, Discovery Issue / August 2017

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Shanon Kathleen Photography published in Make It MN — Published in Make Minnesota Magazine, Wild Issue / June 2017

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Shannon Kathleen Photography in Dear Photographer magazine — Published in Dear Photographer Magazine, Volume 1 Issue 1

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Features:

Traveling Dress Project | Shannon Kathleen Photography — Featured on LOOKS LIKE FILM

daily update 1/23/18

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Picking up the pieces | Shannon Kathleen Photography — Featured on LOOKS LIKE FILM

daily update 2/28/18

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Featured artist at Our Weekend Stories. Read my interview here! 🙂
Read my interview with Inspire Me, Inspire Be.
I wrote a guest blog post for Dear Photographer regarding my favorite types of shooting style and you can read it here!!

For Sale!

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eBook

Your Self: A Meaningful Guide to Self-Portraits

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What You Get.

(1) A 22 page PDF that includes:

My Why
The How with real working tips and advice
4 complete image breakdowns showing SOOC/Final and giving you an understanding of my thought process–how I created them as well as my philosophy behind each
My gear and editing
Image breakdowns and how I edited each self-portrait session from the videos
And finally a list of suggested inspiration to help you create your own!

(2) A bundle of 5 videos:

3 editing videos of me going through and editing 2 different Self-Portrait sessions while talking you through my process.
2 videos of pull back images with me talking you through the philosophy behind my choices, the location, mood, and lighting.

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