THE ICONIC YEAR
A private, year-long experience for the
woman ready to become more fully herself.
What if the photos weren’t the transformation?
What if they were simply the evidence?
For over twenty years, women have stepped in front of my camera believing they needed to become more confident before the photographs were taken.
I’ve watched the exact opposite happen time and time again.
Confidence rarely comes first. It arrives after we decide we’re worth of being seen.
The Iconic Year isn’t about documenting twelve months of your life. It’s about you living those twelve months…intentionally.
And making sure you have the evidence that you were there for them.
This isn’t four fancy photoshoots
It’s one story.
The Iconic Year unfolds through four distinct portrait experiences, created across a year of your life.
Each one sees you differently.
We’ll create. We’ll strip things back. We’ll document what’s already there. We’ll leave home entirely.
And between them, we’ll make space to notice what’s changing.
Not because you need to emerge twelve months from now as some shiny, perfected version of yourself.
The woman at the beginning matters, too.
This is about witnessing all of her.
THE FOUR CHAPTERS
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We begin by creating.
An editorial portrait experience built entirely around you. Hair, makeup, styling, creative direction, beautiful light...and permission to take up the whole damn frame.
Maybe you’ve been dreaming of something cinematic. Maybe glamorous. Strange. Powerful. Romantic. Fashion-forward. Larger than life.
We’ll figure out what this chapter looks like together.
And to be clear: we are not inventing a better version of you.
It’s actually wildly powerful to see what happens when you stop playing yourself down.
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This one belongs to your body.
Not my idea of sexy. Not the internets. Not the version of femininity you think you’re supposed to perform.
Yours.
Come dripping in rhinestones and corsets. Wear the heels that make you six feet tall. Show up soft and bare and ethereal. Bring the boy shorts and the off-the-shoulder T-shirt.
Turn it all the way up or strip everything extra away.
Unmasked isn’t about removing the glamour until we find the “real” you.
The glamour might be the real you.
This is an intimate portrait experience built around however you feel most at home, most alive, most powerful, most sensual, most yourself in your body.
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Then we stop creating altogether.
No elaborate production. No perfect outfit. No need to perform for me.
I step into your real life with my camera.
Your home. Your rituals. Your people. The way the afternoon light falls across the room. The coffee you make every morning. Your hands doing something they’ve done ten thousand times. The dog who follows you everywhere. The kitchen everyone somehow ends up standing in.
The things that feel ordinary now...
and will someday be priceless.
This chapter is less about posing and more about preserving the texture of a life you are still in the middle of living.
Because your real life was art before either of us decided to make a photograph of it.
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And finally...
we leave.
For the final portrait chapter, we take you outside the places where you already know who you are.
Together, we’ll choose a destination within the United States, including Hawaii, based on the story we want to tell, the season, and the experience we want to create.
For three days and two nights, you get to arrive and let me take care of the rest.
Your accommodations. Transportation once you arrive. Hair and makeup. Meals during our experience. The locations. The creative direction. And something memorable chosen specifically for the place we’re in.
We’ll photograph you across two completely different environments, with room to actually experience where we are instead of racing through a destination collecting pictures.
Your only responsibility is getting yourself there.
Once you arrive, you don’t have to touch a steering wheel unless you want to.
Sometimes we need to leave the places that know us...to meet ourselves somewhere new.
BETWEEN EACH CHAPTER
Integration
Every portrait experience begins with a private 90-minute Integration Session.
We’ll meet in person or over Zoom and talk about what you’re navigating, what you’re noticing, what has shifted since the last time we created together, and what this season seems to be asking of you.
This isn’t therapy or coaching. It’s room to hear yourself. To think out loud. To be witnessed. And to understand what we’re about to create before either of us picks up a camera.
Embodiment
After each portrait experience, I’ll create a personalized Embodiment Guide for you, with reflections and prompts drawn from our conversations and the chapter we’ve just created.
And once your photographs are ready, you’ll be able to see them in your private viewing gallery while you continue moving through the year.
The photographs become reminders.
The real work happens while you live.
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
THIS YEAR HAS A LIFE BETWEEN THE CHAPTERS, TOO
You’ll begin with a professional color analysis at The Aura Room...another way of seeing yourself a little more clearly before we begin creating.
Throughout the year, you’ll receive thoughtful surprises from me along the way, access to The Iconic Circle for the duration of our work together, and the kind of communication you’d expect when we’re making something this personal together.
You aren’t disappearing from my world between photoshoots.
We’re building this one chapter at a time.
THE REVEAL
And then we get to see what we made…
After the final chapter has been photographed, I begin bringing the entire year together.
Your photographs. The behind-the-scenes moments and moving images captured along the way. The woman who walked into the first chapter...and every version of her who followed.
We’ll meet for a private closing evening over dinner, where you’ll experience the completed film and receive the physical collection I’ve created from your year.
A substantial, lay-flat heirloom book designed to live on your coffee table, not hidden in a drawer.
Selected fine-art prints.
Your complete digital archive preserved on a crystal drive.
A year of your life made tangible.
Not a trophy for becoming someone better.
Evidence that you were paying attention while you became more fully yourself.
Your year includes…
Four private 90-minute Integration Sessions.
Four bespoke portrait experiences: Becoming, Unmasked, Life as Art and Elsewhere.
Personalized creative direction and styling throughout.
Professional hair and makeup where appropriate to the experience.
Four personalized Embodiment Guides.
Access to a private online viewing gallery as each chapter is completed.
A professional color analysis session at The Aura Room.
One year of access to The Iconic Circle.
Thoughtful surprises throughout the year.
A three-day, two-night Elsewhere destination experience within the United States, including Hawaii.
A custom 3-5 minute film created from your year.
A substantial, lay-flat heirloom book.
Selected fine-art prints.
Your complete digital collection preserved on an engraved crystal drive.
A private closing dinner and reveal.
A note about Elsewhere...
Your transportation to and from our chosen destination is not included.
Once you arrive, your accommodations, local transportation, meals during our experience, professional hair and makeup, and the details we’ve planned together are taken care of.
IS THIS FOR YOU?
Have you been waiting for permission to live your life?
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Have you been waiting to feel ready?
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Do you feel like parts of you have gone unwitnessed for too long?
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Did this page stir something powerful in you?
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The Iconic Year may be for you.
"Mary helped me feel so comfortable, sexy and empowered. My anxiety went out the window. And my photos came out perfect."
— MS. BROOKE
TESTIMONIALS
"Mary is one amazing human being. The power she commands is like nothing I have ever seen, and she does it all in the most caring, loving, humble way. Her energy is nothing short of healing and it comes through right on time. If you're looking for a mentor in life, womanhood, or finding yourself again, Mary is the one."
— MS. RACHEL
"Mary made me feel beautiful in my skin and that's hard to do. She's the greatest hype girl and I felt so sexy. Highly recommend Mary. You won't be disappointed, and you just might happy cry."
— MS. JOY
THE INVESTMENT
The Iconic Year is a $40,000 investment when paid in full.
For women who prefer to extend the investment over time:
4 payments of $10,500
$42,000 total
or
18 monthly payments of $2,500
$45,000 total
The four photographic chapters unfold across approximately one year. After our final chapter, I’ll begin bringing the film and heirloom collection together before we meet for your closing reveal. If you choose an extended payment option, your payments may continue beyond the photographic year. Each payment option represents your commitment to the complete Iconic Year experience rather than a month-to-month service.
