Archive for July, 2025

SEEKING: NYC-area women 21+ with inspiring stories for portrait painting series by Adesina:

• Character faces, older & interesting looks encouraged
• Cast for your story, not your appearance
• Maverick mavens, wise women, nonconformists, accomplished intellectuals, neighborhood heroines welcome!

Know a woman who fits? Send her this way!

LOGISTICS:

• Location: Manhattan NYC studio
• Dates: Weekdays, July 25 – August 15
• Pay: $175 stipend + copy of photo (+ copy of final painting if one is created)
• Time: Half-day shoot per participant

WHAT YOU’LL GET: Fine art photography shoot with professional hair, makeup & styling. Reference photo for highly detailed painting to be exhibited publicly.

TO APPLY: Submit via form: CLICK HERE>> (opens in new tab)

• 2 clear photos (close-up + full body, no filters)
• Your inspiring story (under 300 words)
• Name, Age
• Availability weekdays July 25-August 15
• Social media links if available
• Deadline: July 25

THE GOAL:
This is a collaborative, heart-centered project celebrating YOU. We’ll work together to ensure you feel comfortable and authentically represented. You choose whether to be credited by name or remain anonymous.

ALL TYPES NEEDED – IF YOU HAVE AN INSPIRING STORY, READ ON!

We are creating ROLE MODELS for the next generation of women, by reimagining historic female archetypes we don’t often see in today’s media, and inspiring young women to BE THEMSELVES, pursue their calling, and not follow the herd.

ARCHETYPES WE’RE CASTING:

• Warrior: Defended something/someone you believed in
• Wise Woman: Life lesson that changed you or helped guide others
• Scholar: Formal or self-taught expertise that benefited your community
• Wild Woman: Stepped outside expectations with positive results
• Unique Beauty: Redefined beauty on your own terms
• Mother: Selflessly nurtured others through challenges
• Maiden: Young at heart, refuse to become jaded
• Huntress: Pursued a goal single-mindedly until achieved
• Medicine Woman: Healed others (medical, holistic, etc.)

NOTE: This isn’t about conventional beauty; it’s about celebrating the power and wisdom that comes from lived experience. I have deep respect for your story and am honored to help bring your archetype to life. – Adesina

Submission form: CLICK HERE>> (opens in new tab)

Good luck and we look forward to your submissions!

Usage:
The photos will be used as reference images for a series of paintings which will be shown publicly and made available for sale. You may or may not be recognizable in the final painting. Not every photographed subject will make it into a final painting. The photos themselves, your written or spoken story, as well as behind the scenes video taken at the shoot, may be displayed publicly in Adesina’s portfolio, social media, and website, for behind the scenes purposes, but will never be sold. Artist reserves the right to display and use the photos & your written story (you can be credited by name or remain anonymous — that is up to you) for the above mentioned purposes in perpetuity.