In my house, in my body, in my home...
In my house, in my body, in my home…
In the intimacy of my house, inhabiting my body, I feel at home.
Always accompanied by my great love, Ágata, my cat.
Surrounded by objects that in one way or another represent me, or rather have represented something of each Berni I have been over the years. The Berni who is definitely different from the one before, from yesterday’s and from tomorrow’s.
Many of the things around me here at home no longer feel like me, but somehow it’s hard to let them go.
I wanted to capture this space that I’ve been putting together over the years, decorating it, changing it, coloring it, etc.
Because this is where I move through my days and can be myself: my old self, my present self, my future self, and whoever I feel like being
JUNE 22, 2022
Because tell me, aren’t you, in your own world, the most authentic you will ever be?
Well, I am
This became my safe space, where I always feel welcomed; it’s our space with Ágata, our home.
Gosh, we have such a good time here. Sometimes I think about everything I’ve learned about myself living “alone”: getting to know my light, my shadows, my silences, my screams, my immense joys and also the deepest sorrows.
One of the most important processes of my life, I think, I have lived here, in this space you see.
It wouldn’t be possible to live it without my baby Ágata. She is one of the most important beings in my life: she is my daughter, my cat, my friend, my family, she is everything to me ♡
Thank you for existing in my life, thank you for always waiting for me with meows when I come home, thank you for being my essential companion in the process of learning to be “alone”.
Thank you to my friend Romi for being up for it, for daring, for enjoying it and sharing it with me.
Thank you Pralad for once again creating such a comfortable, fun and artistic space. I admire your talent and the way you share it.
Thank you to me hehe, because it’s always good to thank yourself and we so often forget ♡
And thank you to nudity, because: I don’t just like it, I LOOOOVE IT!!!
Berni
IG: @bern4sty
This session might never have existed, and it would have been just photos of my friend Berni dazzling in her apartment, but…
The day before, Berni tells me she has a photo session with Pralad and asks if I mind. And I say: of course not, worst case I’ll keep sleeping. She knew I had never had photos like this taken, so she didn’t push me to join. Before falling asleep I kept thinking… “Actually I’ve always wanted photos like this; if it happens I’ll tell her I’m in. Besides, what better than with my best friend, who has done it before and gives me all the confidence in the world to do it”, but I still had my doubts and thought, “we’ll see”.
In the morning I wake up and hear Berni talking with Pralad, until they started taking photos. I really liked how Pralad guided the session and handled the situation; I felt the whole moment flowed really nicely and that he was very professional and focused on getting beautiful photos and a lovely experience. That’s when I decided to join; in fact I wanted to join right away haha. So I told her: “Friend, I’m in for some photos together” and Berni, very happy, says: Really, friend? So cool. And so we began this wonderful session.
Wonderful because the photos are beautiful and because I felt so good in that moment, with a sense of complete freedom, a bit of rebellion, and letting go of fears.
Fears because most of the time women are sexualized, above all for our bodies, so much that sometimes we can’t even dress the way we’d like, or at least that has happened to me. So that feeling of freedom was honestly really good.
I hope you really enjoy this session, just as we enjoyed making it, and all that’s left is to thank my beautiful friend for being with me through everything, the good, the bad and the worst, and for bringing these more hidden versions of me into the light.
Finally, it’s impossible not to highlight Pralad’s professionalism, dedication and evident love for this art, and to thank him for giving us this moment of his time.