JULIE MAGNUSSEN PHOTOGRAPHY

PORTFOLIO

This work is created in conversation with spirit, shaped by light, land, intuition, and the quiet intelligence moving through each person, brand, or sacred container.

Each collection below emerged from deep listening, to the woman, to her work, to the landscape, and to what she was ready to have seen. These are not styled shoots. They are acts of recognition.

OAHU, HAWAI’I

JOY
SMITH

A spirit-led visual story for Joy’s channeled jewelry line, created around the essence of the woman behind the work and the divine intelligence moving through each piece.

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Asheville, NC

Deborah came to this session wanting images that held freedom, love, connection to nature, and a certain wildness she had not seen reflected before. Within the autumn woods of Asheville, we created a visual story of softness and strength, mystery and inner knowing, following the passage between what can be seen and what can only be felt.

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Ireland

KATE
MURPHY

A powerful storm had moved through Ireland before this session, leaving the landscape charged with wind, rain, and constantly shifting skies. We entered the day in gratitude for the elements and for whatever they were ready to bring alive. Within the wildness of the coast, the images became deep, cinematic, and wholly responsive to the atmosphere around us.

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PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION

TESSA
THOMSON

Tessa came to this session in a season of healing, return, and reemergence. On the fifty-acre farm she had recently made her own, we created a visual story shaped by childhood wonder, creativity, play, and her deepening relationship with the land. Across fields, water, roses, movement, and golden light, the images became a record of coming home to herself.

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WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

NADIA BRACKETT

Nadia is a psychotherapist whose work brings warmth, depth, and genuine relationship to trauma healing, self-understanding, and the inner life. Across an intimate mountain home, winter fields, and a nearby sheep farm, we created a visual story that feels nurturing, intelligent, grounded, and quietly mystical.

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Brand FOundation

SAMANTHA for THE SPIRAL PATH

Samantha’s work lives in relationship with plants, spirit, and the cyclical nature of healing. Through flowers, roots, water, light, and the spiral itself, we created a visual story for The Spiral Path that held both the playful beauty of the plant world and the deeper ceremonial work of returning inward. The images became an expression of her central teaching: you are the medicine, and the plants are your guides.

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“JULIE GENTLY BROUGHT MY ATTENTION AROUND to my ENERGYand SPIRIT,

the intrinsic things that make me who I am, what she saw in my eyes.”

— Fransiska

THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE WORK

Every image in this portfolio emerged from the same foundation: a complete, immersive process of energetic listening, symbolic creative direction, and deep collaboration with the land.

To understand what went into creating these sessions and whether a similar experience is right for you, begin here.

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Featured Project

JOY SANGALANG SMITH
Communion By Joy

Joy's jewelry line carries the frequency of the divine. For this session in Oahu, we followed that thread into the land, into her body, into the light on water and stone. The images that emerged are not product photographs. They are transmissions.

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