“No other model holds me in thrall quite the way that Femina does. There is of course her extraordinary physical beauty which is such a joy to capture. But it also the way she combines a pleasing spirit of collaboration with a clear sense of personal artistry. It’s the latter I find both intriguing and challenging in its interiority, darkness and decidedly feminine mystery, a quality I value as it keeps me evolving in my own work, excited to experiment and create something new at the intersection of our visions.

For Femina her vision comes I believe from her personal history and how she has charted an independent course at a young age, full of reflection, and inquiry, and above all, that she is a woman, a beautiful woman, but propelled beyond a self-centered beauty to celebrate the beauty in all women. For me, a male photographer at the other end of life, it is trying to capture that divine essence of women that has such a hold on my gender, to lift the personal weight of beauty beyond the sexual to a transcendent power I associate with Darwinian evolution, the naturalist world, and exultance of being. With Femina I feel these visions are consonant. If you are looking for sexy, Femina is not your model. But if you are looking for heart-stopping visions of beauty with soul that will touch the Feminine Divine, she is.“ – Randall Hobbet