Charity shoot (Jada Poon Photography x Hope of the City), May 2021
Celebrating and Appreciating Motherhood @ Mother's Day Appreciation Exhibition by Hope of the City)
Each year, Jada together with her team, aim to organise a non-profit shoot and collaborate with one non-profit organisation for a specific meaningful cause.
For Mother’s Day 2021, we collaborated with Hope of the City to do portrait shoots for single mothers and their families (many of whom never had a proper portrait taken of themselves or with their family). Whilst we hope to celebrate the efforts of single mothers in raising their families through the family portraits, through our solo portrait shoots of each mother, we also aspire to celebrate and appreciate the beauty of each of these mothers as women.
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"A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that He finds her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in Him, she is enough."
John Eldredge
Charity shoot (Kindred studio x St James' Settlement), aug 2023
In the summer of 2023, we collaborated with St James Settlement to do family shoots for patients under their end of life care and their families.
Whilst we walked in preparing for heaviness, the amount of joy and gratitude that we witnessed and encountered surprised and inspired us - as we were told by the families how much they appreciated this opportunity where they can just gather as a family and enjoy themselves (which has been a while), and lay down their often stressful role of either care-giver or care-receiver - and simply be in the present moment.
The joy and bonding captured are precious.