Womanwise 14
30/11/09 23:58 Filed in: Technique
I meet
some interesting people doing Womanwise for the Guardian. Along
with the possibilities of the photography, it’s one of the real
perks of the job. These are women with fascinating stories, real
character and unique experiences, but even among them, there are
special people and among those is Mystie Thongs, who can best be
summed up as awesome.
Mystie has a medical condition that
pretty much charts the course of her life with a sobering clarity.
She already has the answers to the questions that we sometimes ask
ourselves in idle moments, the “what if I knew what would happen
with the rest of my life question.”
Ever since I first met her online as one of my first regular tweeps, folks I correspond with regularly using the 140 character service, it was clear that this was someone who lived carpe diem with a remarkable rigor.
Meeting her in person was kind of humbling and unremittingly cool, but that didn’t stop me from trying to push past her point of comfort. At first, Mystie planned to keep me confined to her “public room,” the space where she holds her in-person meetings (much of her work is done online), but I kept pushing.
I never got the opportunity to
photograph her in her true workspace, the private world where she
plots music promotion domination, but we managed to compromise with
a look at her private thinking space, an inspiring patio that
overlooks a lush mango tree. We did some photos in the meeting
space, but the glow and greenery of her thinkspace proved to be the
big win of the session, with both photos, cover and interior,
coming from that location.
Mystie and her mom were very kind in their appreciation of my efforts, but really, these photos rise or fall based on the involvement and participation of my subjects and with this session; things just soared.
Related: The Womanwise Virtual Gallery
Ever since I first met her online as one of my first regular tweeps, folks I correspond with regularly using the 140 character service, it was clear that this was someone who lived carpe diem with a remarkable rigor.
Meeting her in person was kind of humbling and unremittingly cool, but that didn’t stop me from trying to push past her point of comfort. At first, Mystie planned to keep me confined to her “public room,” the space where she holds her in-person meetings (much of her work is done online), but I kept pushing.
Mystie and her mom were very kind in their appreciation of my efforts, but really, these photos rise or fall based on the involvement and participation of my subjects and with this session; things just soared.
Related: The Womanwise Virtual Gallery
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