Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Sofia Katherine. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Sofia, appreciate you joining us today. Let’s talk legacy – what sort of legacy do you hope to build?

My visual art I have created for so many amazing humans in all parts of their life will remain alive I hope for many lifetimes past my time here on earth. Life on earth is complex and beautiful and I push myself (sometimes too hard) to always innovate and keep showing everyone life experiences in ways they haven’t seen yet.

I hope I am remembered for my drive, passion for challenging the norm and ultimately my kindness.

Sofia, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I have always been in love with photography and video. My first job at 13 years old was in my local home town’s film lab. I bought my first pro camera in 2010 and in 2012 photography became my full time job and has been every since.

I have photographed primarily weddings and couples for most of these years but my passion started when photographing my high school friends who were talented musicians. In recent years I have specialized in low light photography and videography and have become well known for my night photoshoot experiences for couples and females.

I’m incredibly proud of my portfolio and I know my younger self would think WOW if she could see where I have been fortunate enough to travel to and create art.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

2020. Oh man that year.

I was packing my bag for a wedding in Mexico. I had another wedding in Cuba right after, and then in France after that one.

As we all know the world came crashing down that year. So did my little wedding business, especially the part of it that was focusing on destination weddings.

I seen a person do a virtual photoshoot over a facetime call and thought wow that’s really dumb but then a good friend convinced me to do one with her.

I said fine. But it has to be in the dark at night so it’s “Sof vibes”.

It was amazing. I ended up booking an entire 2 months of work from these little virtual shoots, so much that I didn’t qualify for cerb because I ended up making over the amount of income allowed. I even ended up speaking at a photography conference about these shoots after they went viral.

The most amazing part of that experience tho was night after night, I would have facetime calls with women telling me how badly they felt, how sad they were, how overwhelmed they were at home. And every night I got to watch another woman smile and say things like “OMG that’s me??? I look beautiful!”

I feel like I have always thought outside the box and this proved it to me in a major way.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

I think non-creatives will never fully understand the pressure of being a creative.

The bar is constantly being pushed higher and higher and higher. It becomes harder to “top” your best work year after year because everyone has “seen” that already from you.

The imposter syndrome is next level somedays.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.sofiakatherine.ca
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/sofia_katherine AND www.instagram.com/nicturna