CELESTE MIDORI

22, toronto, diary

[celestemidori]

Your pictures make me feel so strongly!! Thank you for your art.

i love u!

[celestemidori]

a winter diary - always discovering new ways to hold, be present, to love, big love this winter. 

[celestemidori]

Hi! Love your blog. How did you learn photography? I love your unique touch!

thank you!!!! i’m mostly self taught. i went to university for 2 years (which mainly taught me technical things and how to navigate photoshop lol!!) but not much else, i learned from being around creative people and people willing to let me in to their lives and show me how to be tender and vulnerable ! n from looking at people on the internet/tumblr since i was like 14! 

[celestemidori]

Hi! I’m sorry this is such an annoying question, but I want to get started in photography and I was wondering what camera do you use? thank you! ❤️

not annoying at all don’t worry angel! at the moment i mainly use a leica m6 and my most trusty nikon fm! 

[celestemidori]

Will you be making a website of sorts? A lot of my favourite photos of yours have been removed and its upsetting.

yes! it’s on the way :-) 

upsetting for me too ! 

[celestemidori]

my baby, my sweet pea, my lover - in march

thinking more about photos as poetry and makers of feelings in your heart ! never forgetting the power of words, but just remembering, - this makes me feel too/ i remember the tenderness she has shown me

the shower in portland when we first arrive; light in ju’s kitchen in montreal; driving out to the bluffs in toronto and looking out onto the blue of the lake

[celestemidori]

Girl there’s tons of uncensored porn on tumblr. The reason ya images being removed is because one or more people are reporting them. I would guess that it’s not because u post naked bodies, but because of the shape of the bodies in question.

ok.. either way- im still allowed to be peeved about policy changes tho 

[celestemidori]

you know- i kind of hate tumblr right now - the censorship of my images here still really has me annoyed- naked bodies ≠ pornography. so many of my images have been removed from this blog :/  i’m more active on my instagram rn (that post with the link also was removed). ig: @hoardlove 

these are all pics of my sister (last one + her love) from last summer. i have a lot of new work from the fall but its all stuff that would be flagged for removal >:-( im in the process of building a website- so please stay tuned for that ! 

rly is a shame because i did love tumblr as a platform and sharing tool.... 

[celestemidori]

i’m worried this blog is gonna get flagged & removed — follow me on instagram 2 stay updated about another domain 💌🍊🔗

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damaged film from this summer </3 sorcha & the moon in falmouth.. celia in the kitchen in brussels

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fronts & backs, 2016-2018

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falmouth magic, 2018

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kiki & josh / cazandra & hibou, 2018

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little summer roundup, words from august 2018:

i am the strongest i have ever been in my life and also the heaviest, always wanting to be smaller, smaller, smaller, even as i carry my own bags carry my baby distances

waking up today at 4am what does anyone think of me and a racing heart. i have to monitor what under what conditions i am most productive…what music makes me want to write, how many times can you listen to the same heart wrenching music

angel olsen plays loud last night before celia and i leave the apartment in brussels and we talk about her ability to be a conduit so easily for something GREATER, it looks so effortless. i imagine her collapsing afterwards though

thats always how i felt coming off a stage. too seen, so much given to some abstract mass in the darkness in front of me, my voice was precious

i know what i have to do it’s just a matter of doing it now, but mum says: enjoy your life, just have fun

she’s not wrong at all but how do i do it without anything to back me up, its like walking and walking forward in either the dark or blinding lightness. both are good and bad at the same time… i have to plan for it to all make sense, i need a home to write in, i need security before anything else… life just happens, each day goes by like it doesn’t leave an imprint but it does… millimetres of progress is still progress though, just don’t leave it too long

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elena, september 2018

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in pairs, 2017-2018

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jackie & flowers, 2012-2018