FRIDAHM to Jenneffer Vazquez

FRIDAHM, and what it means to me. First of all, Fridahm means just that, what it phonetically sounds like, "Freedom". Freedom is something very important to me, being that I am a woman with a lot of compassion for things, after all I am a Pisces, I am also a politically aware person. You see, I believe we live in such a wonderful place in time and a great Country. It is in this country where I have come to learn that freedom is one of the human's most valuable treasures.

When I created FRIDAHM Photography, I wanted take a name that would describe my values and me. But there is a little more of a back story to FRIDAHM. Frida Kahlo, whom I fashioned the name FRIDAHM from, was a woman Mexican painter. I identified with her because she is of my same origin, she had originally wanted to study Medicine, (I wanted to study Law), she had an accident on a trolly that broke her back into several pieces and for the rest of her life she lived in pain. While on her bed rest after the countless painful surgeries she would paint. Unlike Frida, I did not have an accident, nor do I live in such pain. But I did experience a change of plans and much like her I am making the best of what God has given me. I was pregnant at 19, had my son at 20, married a Marine and moved all the way across the nation to follow my husband from California to Virginia State (much like Frida followed the love of her life, the famous muralist, Diego Rivera, when he was commissioned to paint a mural on the Rockefeller Building across foreign barriers to the U.S.) And so it was the identification with Frida and now I will admit that it was a sort of Romanticizing that I had with this woman's story that I chose to name my photography after her.  However somewhere along the line I got captivated in creating an interesting name that now I feel like I left the me out. And so in the midst of debuting my website, in less than two weeks. I have finalized my decision to drop FRIDAHM and make my photography just that, mine.