A Woman with a Camera

One year to reinvent myself. Again.

As I started writing this, a bird landed on my head! ..wait what? yep. a. bird.

Maybe you know me from uni, the INSEAD MBA, or one of my business jobs. Maybe you know me as a therapist and energy worker (less likely on linkedin, but still, could be) or maybe you don't know me at all but we connected at some point over the years.

It's strange how we all stand for something. how at some point in your life you look back and it hits you. you're a freaking unicorn. completely different from everyone around you. for so long i tried hiding it. I didn't feel comfortable voicing myself. like at.all.

today, probably after the toughest, roughest, most challenging couple of years, it seems like I'm catching a breather.

I keep changing my life around, from one profession to another. from one corner of the earth to another. going through bubbles, living there for a while. and hopping into a new one. sometimes i was completely alone and isolated in my bubble. to reflect, to understand. sometimes, i met the most precious of people.

already as a kid, i grew up in many different countries. later, not really knowing what to do with my life, I studied business, and went for this amazing international career. I had all I wanted, all I needed. But something was telling me there's something else I needed to uncover.

Within a couple of months, I left it all behind, the friends, the colleagues (so hard!). I left behind my security. and a promising future.

at that time I thought to myself. "well Laure, it can happen, you were not on your right path". So i went inwards, discovered personal development, emotions, i opened this little box called "sensitivity", and well when i opened it. it was a bit like this bird that landed on my head earlier.

*quite something!

I started to allow myself to feel again and to give words to all those feelings. I started to see and feel and be and move energy. My own, and what was around me.

Very soon, I could feel people's energies and knew what they needed to do or hear or say to feel better. So I opened my practice. I lost count of how many people I met over all these years. I just know I gave all I could, and still now, I am receiving heartfelt messages from people telling me how working with me has changed their lives. It is beyond touching. Part of me still can't believe it.

Written like this, you may think "oh sweet". Well let me tell you. It wasn't all rainbows and butterflies. It was hard hard work. On myself first and foremost. So much to heal, to see, to understand and let go of.

During that time, I was on a mission, I truly thought I had found my purpose. That it was it. And I wanted so bad to hang on to it. To hang on to my way of living. To my new friends.

But deep down, when I was honest with myself, I knew. More was to come.

OMG and i m forgetting all about COVID. When everything was shutting down, there was this part within me that had always wanted to do a start-up. So we went for it. Had a cool idea, raised funds, worked our asses off. Hated it. (I mean truly). Got super sick. But I could finally let go of a lot of really deep sh*t. It took me a while to recover. It changed me forever.

After 6 years, I knew it was time for another change. I knew my time within the spiritual bubble was closing. I had to move on. An urge. An itch. Something that is pushing and you don't know why. I had felt it years before.

It took me a year to reinvent myself. again.

It all started when in 2022, I was at an event, and the only thing that was interesting to me was the guy with his camera. I wanted to be the woman with the camera.

I thought to myself: you're crazy. for sure it's just a wild feeling, it will go away.

but it didn't. I went into a shop and held in my hands the camera I wanted to buy. and OMG. i felt it everywhere.

I knew in that instant, i was a photographer. that would be my next step. (I am of course purposefully leaving out the months of personal search, not having a clue what i wanted to do next)

from there on, the road was steep. Putting my pictures out there was tough. Finding confidence. I still thought I "had to do" things "the right way", so i went into weddings and elopement photography, because that sounded like something solid. Booked Clients, Bought an expensive class. But I absolutely hated it.

It challenged me from my guts. Was I really a photographer? How could I live from what I loved to do? Is that even possible? Was I good enough? Was my art good enough? ..that's when it hit me. as a photographer, I'm embracing even more wild open space. Showing even more of who I am, and to a wider audience. There is no holding back. There is no doing things the right way. There is just me learning to be me in the middle of a wild world.

I hope you enjoy being the witness or the participant in this next step of mine. Where I express with a camera what makes us humans. Where I help others voice themselves through fabulous images that are fully in tune with who they are.

Officially, I'm a creative portrait photographer. I work with professionals to create images for their socials, website, press releases, book covers and albums.

And I work with anyone who wants to take a seat in front of my camera, and live this beautiful experience of being seen.

Unofficially, I'm a woman with a camera.

..until it will be time to change again.

to check out my work: www.lauredussuet.com

you'll find my showroom, offers, special shooting day events, and all my socials if you want to connect somewhere else too.