HEY YOU, I’M…
Sophie Spencer
EMBODIMENT PHOTOGRAPHER, STORYTELLER, ULTRA TRAIL RUNNER AND THE FOUNDER OF BRANDING BY SOPHIE.
It’s so lovely to have you here and it makes me smile that you want to get to know me on more of a personal and professional level. In short, I’ve been a photographer for the last 15 years, designing websites for the last 5 and holding the most intimate, empowering photographic experiences for women since 2020. But away from the work I do, I live and breathe trail running, absolutely dig spending my time in the outdoors and am a sucker for a boogie.
MY BACKGROUND
✦ Bachelor of Photography | Photojournalism & Social Documentary major.
✦ Former food photographer & travel blogger.
✦ Mentoring emerging photographers in embodiment & emotional storytelling.
✦ Reflector 2/4 | Gemini Sun | Pisces Rising | Capricorn Moon.
✦ And when I’m not behind the lens or working on my business? I’m living a life of adventure and pleasure...
✦ Two solo bike-packing trips (just me, my bike, the road) The first from Passau, Germany to Bratislava, Slovakia and then Hobart to Launceston.
✦ Solo travelled from age 19. I am a world traveller and spent a huge chunk of my 20’s off gallivanting across the world having new experiences and getting well and truly out of my comfort zone.
✦ Hiking, paragliding, trail running, swimming in wild places and getting really sweaty on a workout makes my heart happy.
✦ But equally does, going out to a flashy wine bar on a hot date, swimming topless at a secluded beach, dancing my sweet little heart out at a contemporary class or diving deep into a new book with candles lit.
MY MISSION
To empower women to live their most unapologetic and aligned lives by walking the talk myself.
Ever since I was 19, I was passionate about empowering women to go off and live their most courageous, vivacious lives. One where fear or doubt didn’t stop them from their dreams, in fact, it motivated them. Over a decade on from my first solo backpacking trip, the deep desire to empower and inspire women hasn’t left. If anything, it’s continued to grow. I hope that through my vulnerability and honesty, that other women can find the courage to do the things that both scare them and lit them up.
MY DHARMA
Helping women heal their body image wounds and celebrate their own unique expression.
I started taking intimate, documentary style self portraits of myself in 2015. The images were triggering initially, but I continued to turn the camera towards me to capture my forever evolving body and self. In 2020, my best friend at the time asked me to do a topless photoshoot for her and it scared the living day lights out of me. That was the beginning of the embodiment work with women and starting to see just how much women need spaces to neutralise their body, their sensuality and feel celebrated exactly as they are.
