hellen barbara

Hi, I'm Hellen, a creative artist that uses photography to capture images that tell a story. My focus is on travel, portrait and fine art photography, and I have a special passion for nature and wildlife. My greatest joy is collaborating with my clients to brainstorm interesting ideas and implementing them to achieve unique and creative looks. It is my mission to empower through portraiture, to celebrate the power of self love, and to capture precious moments of time. My vision pursues a modern approach with a focus on intriguing closeups and thought provoking images. I am obsessed with good, old fashioned, soulful black and whites.

I’ve recently taken some time away from travelling, and as fate would have it, I am now a farmer. My wife, Mel, and I embarked on a new venture in 2022 and are now growing a family homestead in upstate, NY. Together with our pups, Charley, Jaxson, and Tate, we are raising a variety of livestock animals and training Great Pyrenees, LGD’s, livestock guardian dogs. 

Living and capturing  snapshots of my day to day is my greatest passion and sharing my creative work brings me the greatest joy. Stay tuned for some fun photography projects on my radar and on my “list” for quite awhile. Time to dust off the Canon and hit the road again. Time to capture the essence of life as I see it through my eyes and feel it in my bones. Time to capture the beauty of the human being and the individual soul that is unlocked through photography. 

The freedom of creativity is my passport to happiness. Life is great!

“There is nothing more beautiful than that intimate moment when I feel an energy shift, a sense of trust, of confidence, between me and the person I am shooting. That is when the magic happens. That is when the soul of the person is captured in their eyes and their body speaks the most beautiful language.” -hb