Personal brand photography in London - Intuitive Eating Writer & Nutritionist - Kate Albrecht
I loved getting to collaborate with wonderful Kate Albrecht last year, writer & nutrition counsellor focussed on intuitive eating.
Learning about her work was so interesting and inspiring. Coming from a background as a chef, Kate went on to study nutrition, which raised so many questions… she felt conflicted about how much of the nutrition world centres around weight loss, and it led her to a deepening research into a wider picture of health and our relationships with food.
Kate is passionate about sharing the message that you can be healthy in the body you’ve got, that our bodies naturally change, and that that is okay!
She loves supporting people to gain a better understanding of how food interacts with their own wellbeing, and become more informed, happier, healthier and more peaceful eaters.
To support her in her visibility, Kate needed a library of images to pull from for her posts on Substack and for her future website.
Together we explored some of the subject matter of her writing, the stories she tells, and dreamt into visions and plans for the shoot, the kinds of props to include, and activities to showcase, to help illustrate her message.
It was important that the values at the core of her work (including wholeness, compassion, non-judgement, authenticity) could be felt through the shots, while also allowing them to be super warm, relaxed, relatable and joyful.
It was such a delight to collaborate on this session and I love what we created in Kates beautiful home and her local area.
Personally, I too care about us unhooking, processing and moving beyond the harmful cultural conditioning and misguided beliefs that has us basing our sense of wellness and worth on our appearance, weight, size, physical ability… I see how our attempts to get healthier often backfire and have so many of us feeling shame and failure (a journey I continue to move with, myself). So, I was really excited learning about her work as she challenges dominant narratives around food, body image and health and offers us kinder and more truly healthy & nourished ways of being in the world.
Here are some of my favourite images. Follow Kate on Instagram at @crowded_tables, and check out her Substack here.
