Em Hampton Photography

Em Hampton Photography Em Hampton is a twenty one year old photographer creating intimate portraits through lenses of life and love. Em attends SUNY Purchase but is based in LA.

Sam.
06/19/2022

Sam.

part three
10/28/2021

part three

part one
10/28/2021

part one

My Memories Don’t Match (pls read caption)---Selective memory, repressed memory, dissociative amnesia. Due to pressing a...
10/20/2019

My Memories Don’t Match (pls read caption)
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Selective memory, repressed memory, dissociative amnesia.
Due to pressing and traumatic events in my life, I often find myself blocking out my own memories. These can be good times, bad times, great times, or awful times, and I hate it.
Taking photographs initially started as something I did because I loved it. Now at age 22, after trauma and through growing pains, I still love photography, but when I look through my hard drives and at all the images from long ago, I can’t remember taking them. I don’t know what I was feeling, where I was mentally or emotionally, and it’s hard for me to place myself behind the camera, in front of whatever or whomever the subject was. After getting the diagnosis of PTSD, I didn’t understand at first what affect the things I have been through had on my whole life. Now blocking out memories that might be even slightly painful has become a survival skill. I don’t like that I’ve withheld so much of my life from myself, shut the door on past moments that weren’t singularly related to the bad. I know that my brain is protecting me from spiraling into dark times and dark thoughts, but I wish I had clung to some of the good ones and could feel those feelings once more. I’ve never spoke so candidly on this account before, but I want to be 100% authentic with who I am behind the screen and on.
I’m starting an archival based series at the same time I’m continuing my regular work.
This is the second batch.
The images are from 2014-2017.
I was 16, 17, 18.

My Memories Don’t Match (pls read caption)---Selective memory, repressed memory, dissociative amnesia. Due to pressing a...
10/20/2019

My Memories Don’t Match (pls read caption)
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Selective memory, repressed memory, dissociative amnesia.
Due to pressing and traumatic events in my life, I often find myself blocking out my own memories. These can be good times, bad times, great times, or awful times, and I hate it.
Taking photographs initially started as something I did because I loved it. Now at age 22, after trauma and through growing pains, I still love photography, but when I look through my hard drives and at all the images from long ago, I can’t remember taking them. I don’t know what I was feeling, where I was mentally or emotionally, and it’s hard for me to place myself behind the camera, in front of whatever or whomever the subject was. After getting the diagnosis of PTSD, I didn’t understand at first what affect the things I have been through had on my whole life. Now blocking out memories that might be even slightly painful has become a survival skill. I don’t like that I’ve withheld so much of my life from myself, shut the door on past moments that weren’t singularly related to the bad. I know that my brain is protecting me from spiraling into dark times and dark thoughts, but I wish I had clung to some of the good ones and could feel those feelings once more. I’ve never spoke so candidly on this account before, but I want to be 100% authentic with who I am behind the screen and on.
I’m starting an archival based series at the same time I’m continuing my regular work. This is the first batch. The images are from 2014-2017.
I was 16, 17, 18.

@ New York, New York
11/07/2018

@ New York, New York

buddies ! @ New York, New York
11/07/2018

buddies ! @ New York, New York

umbrella man
11/07/2018

umbrella man

Massachusetts/Vermont - 2018.
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Massachusetts/Vermont - 2018.

Massachusetts/Vermont - 2018
11/05/2018

Massachusetts/Vermont - 2018

Los Angeles!! Looking for headshots? Family portraits? Senior pictures? Or maybe just an artsy new Instagram post? I’m a...
08/12/2018

Los Angeles!!

Looking for headshots? Family portraits? Senior pictures?
Or maybe just an artsy new Instagram post?

I’m available!

$30*, 1 hour, you get all the photos & 5 edited ones for free!

I’m here for 1 week, let’s shoot!

(310) 975-4292
or
[email protected]

*Prices may vary depending on your party size.

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