EXHIBITION DATES: JANUARY 24TH, 2026 – MAY 30th, 2026

As women, we live inside a hall of distorted mirrors. From birth, we are reflected back to ourselves through the eyes of others—through the gaze of culture, men, beauty myths, and inherited ideals. These projections blur our vision until it becomes difficult to see who we truly are, apart from how we’ve been seen from the outside.

When I stand behind the camera, and a woman stands before it, something brutally honest begins to unfold. Together we create a small clearing in the wilderness of all those projections. For a moment, the noise quiets. She can feel herself again. And I can too.

These portraits are not about how women look—they’re about how it feels to be seen without distortion. To be witnessed, not judged. To remember the wild, unfiltered self that has always been there underneath it all. To reconnect with our own cycles, our innate rhythms, and the pulse of the earth that runs through us.
This work is an offering: a mirror polished with feminine tenderness. An invitation for women to see ourselves, clearly, for perhaps the first time. An invitation to remember our bodies as sacred landscapes, our lives as intertwined with the turning seasons, the soil beneath our feet, the waters that shape us, and the cycles that have always belonged to us.

This collection includes portraits of wild women at various stages of biological and spiritual transition, including self-portraits wherein I capture my own process of identity death and rebirth—an intimate reckoning with what is lost, what endures, and what returns when we step fully back into our own wild, earthly bodies.

Vanessa Wingerath is an artist, mother, birth keeper, Shakti priestess and space holder of sacred feminine experiences. She creates spaces for women to cultivate embodied wisdom and build true sisterhood. From behind the lens, Vanessa witnesses all women who want to be seen wherever they are on their journey of self liberation.

vanessa@wildroseproject.com
@vanessa_wild_art
www.wildrosewomanphotography.com