portraiture
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at home
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musicians 
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pet portraits
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engagement portraits and documentation
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weddings big and small, for everyone
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dinner parties, birthday’s, sponsored events, dj sets, live music, gatherings
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product photography and porfolio documentation for others
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pov diary (on-going personal project)

mitzvah 2023–Present

Mitzvah began as a question, a release, a quiet dare. Born in the long shadow of my Saturn Return, this photographic seriesis an act of self-witnessing shaped by memory, desire, and deep reclamation. Over two years of making, I’ve returned to moments once saturated with shame, confusion, and silence—not to relive them, but to reinterpret them. To create from the version of myself who is no longer surviving, but beginning to trust again. A good deed, for myself. Shot on film, Mitzvah spans intimate self-portraits, still lifes, and daily snapshots. Each image is a reimagined scene honoring past selves not with critique, but compassion. A sacred act that started as a contained body of work, but has become a lifelong practice: a way of moving through the world with tenderness, curiosity, and creative agency. A celebration of autonomy, queerness, pleasure, and the quiet magic of choosing tokeep going.

© leah wendzinski 2025