The 60 at 60 Project

As we move through 2023 and dip into 2024, and to help celebrate my 40th year in business and my recent 60th birthday, I’ll be doing my best to capture 60 new BW personal portraits during the year. Capturing portraits has always been my ‘happy place’ and I’m really looking forward to the creative challenge of capturing 60 new ones!

“A portrait is not only an opportunity to learn about each person I get to photograph, but perhaps also a little more about myself.”

Cheers, Dwayne.

One fun aspect of the 60 at 60 project, is the impromptu nature of the series. Today while photographing Maria Ford, for some creative branding imagery for her company Phrase Strategy, we decided to capture some BW’s and create a portrait for the series.

Maria is a creative entrepreneur through and through. As a self proclaimed ‘dreamer’, she’s owned her own local dance studio, she writes, she creates marketing strategy and she also helps and coaches companies to scale and better fulfill their potential. And she does all of this with creative drive, curiosity, attention-to-detail and very focused intention. Business endeavours aside, it was also cool to hear about Maria’s recent cross country drive with her 83 year old dad and to learn that she’s originally from Alberta. (yeah, that’s where I’m from too!)

Thanks so much Maria, for sharing more of your story and lending your face and personality to the project!