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ashley.thalman@gmail.com

@ashleythalman

801.319.7114

If you feel drawn to make authentic/raw/real portraits of women…

then become the subject of such images.

Embody what you desire…as your own true muse.

Discomfort will be invoked and you will listen to it and develop a pallet for such

Bits of life…
My beautiful child
A torn ACL
Lilacs blooming
A favorite song
Spring light
Stacked custom Backdrops in a Bag @ultravioletbackdrops for @nicolechapmandesign

Shot on an exclusive film stock that’ll make you cry because d

It’s easy to see why the minute I hung this up I said, “That’s my backdrop”.

Handpainted backdrop by @ultravioletbackdrops
Pictured: @nicolechapmandesign @molly.in.the.sky @nrdnrd
Film #candidostudio400 which holy shit get

Ultraviolet Install for @nicolechapmandesign
Hand painted parachute @ultravioletbackdrops
🎞️ Kickstarter exclusive #candidostudio400 @thefindlab this film stock is nuts! Honestly one of the truest and most “how it felt” films. Buy a ro

@jonathancanlas @thefindlab are creating an affordable inclusive 🌈 place for folks to experience belonging, explore a powerful medium, and share their perspectives with the world. 🎞️ 📷

I can’t wait to see how this thoughtful space impacts

The best thing about this is witnessing the story behind it. Where the viewer may see the image. I see hundreds of hours of experimentation and work that led to Matthew create this beautiful alien thing soaring in the wind barely tethered to two Josh

Devotion of a kind.

📷 🎞️ for @ultravioletbackdrops and @nicolechapmandesign

#ncdretreat #film #womeninfilm

When ur a mom and dad but also artists and lovers and you’re reborn and baby that’s the way love goes.

Love goes on and on billowing and blooming color and smoke and shadow and snails and lizard brain and god moments. Love goes up up up

♾️ 👯&zwj;♀️ 🩸 🐦&zwj;⬛ Happiest Birthday to the only @incrediblejulk who is my best in all forevers.

All for one and one for all.

Co created portraiture with @mollyspins

We made this image back in February of 2020 during a punishing wind and rain storm. After the session I asked her how the shoot felt:

“This was, hands down, one of the most empowering experiences of my life.”

Same.

Every detail of this image. I am grateful for my sight and for those who invite me to make their portraits. @lauraereksonart

The film color being so bonkers is like urmom.

At the intersection of “let go and let god” and “everything is a projection”.

Where @laphil and @moca meet.

🎞️ @thefindlab

3/4 Our access to the making of images is a rare fucking thing.

It’s so rare to be able to do this. To make or to take an image. To be a subject, to buy a camera- even now with all the cluttered muchness and content and experts and industries

2/4 I am drawn to the wild seers that gather the light and shadows and color and form and present them in truth, in image that indicates something more than technicality, something more than session, something beyond the image and industry.

Dev and

1/4 The most valuable images created during our time last year in Cuba are the ones I made of my friends. I’ve always practiced portraiture not for hope that the image will outlast the life or even indicate or represent it but that our fates of