Eva

– Photos taken in 2022 and again in 2025 –

2022 – “Age 33/34 – A Birthday shoot in my Birthday suit!”

33 was an odd age. I finally started realising my potential and understanding my rights and beliefs. It was about putting those into practice, becoming more self-aware and learning how to engage with others in a way that didn’t exhaust me or encourage me to take drugs.

Eva in blue tutu standing just in the water at Brighton beach.
Eva in blue tutu standing one one leg, arm raised, laughing - just in the water at Brighton beach.

I completed my MA in scriptwriting and got a distinction, I solidified good relationships and spent less time on the draining ones. As in most years, I aimed to find a balance of work, health and socialising, but I feel like I’m closer now as I turn 34.

Eva in blue tutu standing just in the water at Brighton beach.
Eva naked, tree pose, just in the water at Brighton beach.
Eva naked, standing on one leg, arms raised, just in the water at Brighton beach.

I’m not particularly happy with my body in these images but I know how it can fluctuate. I know that my self-worth and happiness don’t depend on the size of my belly. I will be bigger, and smaller, and wrinklier in different places at different times.

Eva with a mermaid's tail - Brighton beach.
Eva's offerings to the project - a large multicoloured lollipop, a pink bracelet with a metal, turtle shaped clasp, a head band with pineapple patterns and a pot of spider plant babies.

As I grow older, I realise what’s truly important is what my body is able to do, how I treat it and what I put inside it. I wish to be kind to my body. My brain doesn’t always oblige, but if there’s anything I’ve learnt in 34 years; it’s that feelings change, the people, influences and opinions around you change, and your body changes.

Eva with a mermaid's tail - Brighton beach.

But you can’t escape your body. So make peace with it, be good to it and ensure that others are good to it too.

2025 “The perfect day arrived, it felt like magic.”

It wasn’t easy this time around to carve out time for a photoshoot.

Between my fatigue flaring up and juggling work and training (not quite pacing myself as well as I should), it took a while to make it happen.

But when the perfect day arrived, it felt like magic.

The day unfolded beautifully.

My confidence had grown, and I was brimming with ideas for poses and costumes.

I’ve learnt over the years to love my body (for the most part) and to celebrate its lines and curves.

Along with dance, yoga and pilates, tutoring and modelling for life-drawing have played a huge part in this –

I no longer see myself through the lens of the ‘male gaze’ or as a ‘pretty (or unpretty) girl’.

I see my body as strong or weak, and I wonder what different things I can make it capable of.

I felt playful and imaginative—and for the first time in what felt like ages…

I felt genuinely free: in my body, in my creativity, in myself.

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