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Emotional Tourism

Atmospheric photographs with a person worth to know about
Hi! Here you'll find a story about charismatic person along with atmospheric photography.
Xenia
Photographer
Few random things about Antonina:
Lie no more
She can read my face.
And probably yours, and also almost everyone around her. Probably life was bringing a variety of obstacles, so she got to know KGB tactics of reading faces.
Like a rockstar
For the last ten years, she was organizing huge festivals, and concerts with worldwide known artists.

And she can make you feel like a rockstar for some gratitude
Experienced
To know to get the full experience from San Francisco, she went through experience of being homeless
Manifestor
Human design and all that jazz.
She can tell you more about it.

It was the beginning of September 2020. I am coming back to my home in LA from a temporary one in Sonoma, where I spent a beautiful two-month living side by side with my tribe.

Short overview: I live in a house with two friends of mine: Liza and Anastasia. We call our place Anaxata - heart collective. This time girls were both traveling somewhere and subleased their rooms.

Antonina. She moved in just for a week since Liza subleased her room for the timeframe of her trip to Europe.

I hadn't met her before I came back home. So it was a surprise
We have a few dozen friends in common and all of them from the most upgraded version of my tribe. At this moment, that didn't surprise or fascinate me at all: the thing how small this world. It feels more like I got into the flow of social interaction, where I stick to those energies who I click with the most.
We got along pretty well. In one of the conversations, Antonina mentioned that she is working on a tech project. "Emotional tourism" she said. It's like you got to be in somebody else's shoes for a day. In 5 days, I got to know a lot about her without having too much of conversation. No, I cannot read people's mind; she was pretty structured, presenting herself.

We clicked on the same idea:

"I am crazy about people obsessed with something, in a good way. Especially if the managed to dig deeper in their niche. "- I said.

The core base of her project is "guru" who will guide clients into an experience. Guru - usually an industry leader, well known and acknowledged in their niche.

My idea was to promote a series of podcast 10 min, each with people from different industries. With an idea to promote commitment and constancy by creating a structure for creating a content. At the moment, we might work together or at least try to see what we can co-create.

"Let's meet sunrise at the beach! And you leaving to San Diego tomorrow, can I take a few portraits of you?" I said.

Commit to waking at 5-30 am at midnight was risky. That made me get up early, and I am glad that happened. Foggy Overcast! What could've been better for cinematic shots to highlights her personality?

Here is what we've got.

Emotional tourism

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  • Antonina
    The guest
  • Xenia
    Photographer
    I believe that heartwarming environment creates space for revealing our full potential. My goal is to embrace this feeling of safe creative container by listening and demonstrating what I've heard.
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