Wurmwood Photography

Wurmwood Photography Conceptual portraits, fine art, avant-garde, and fashion photography.
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Specializing in conceptual portraiture, available for portraits, weddings, families, and more.

"I didn't need you all to drag me down with you, I was doing it just fine on my own."🥀🖤Model: Matt DepewHands: Lina Nguy...
04/21/2026

"I didn't need you all to drag me down with you, I was doing it just fine on my own."
🥀🖤
Model: Matt Depew
Hands: Lina Nguyen & Brandon Meadows

"The path to ruin is paved with borrowed masks.Pretending too long erases the self."🖤
04/01/2026

"The path to ruin is paved with borrowed masks.
Pretending too long erases the self."
🖤

I adore a fun BTS shot. 💟
03/26/2026

I adore a fun BTS shot. 💟

✶ｈｏｎｋ✶🤡🩵(Model: Amber Jean)
03/26/2026

✶ｈｏｎｋ✶🤡🩵
(Model: Amber Jean)

SUPER honored to have scored TWO finalist images in this year's Shutterfest Top Talent Competition! 😭🥰Thanks to my lovel...
06/13/2025

SUPER honored to have scored TWO finalist images in this year's Shutterfest Top Talent Competition! 😭🥰

Thanks to my lovely models Avery Martin & Violet Deardorff for makin' it easy for me. ❤

Out of 28,000 images, us finalists are in the top 22, how cool is that!?!?

But peep that winning image on top by James & Apryl Napier!
RIGHT?! Soooo good, and a well deserved win!! 😍

Also wanna say a huge congrats to my buddies Ricalous Lewis, Russ Turner, and Ryan Greene for their finalist wins as well! Y'all killed it as always!!

I hate how people say you dodged a bullet, even though you've felt it rip right through you.But you heal.You learn you c...
06/10/2025

I hate how people say you dodged a bullet, even though you've felt it rip right through you.
But you heal.
You learn you could take that shot.
You master the art of dodging.
And then, you overcome.
Every single time.

Model: Cody Mekale |

Loving this shot from one of my classes at this year's Shutterfest!! Model: Kaiah TullWardrobe Styling: Sethra Welton | ...
06/10/2025

Loving this shot from one of my classes at this year's Shutterfest!!

Model: Kaiah Tull
Wardrobe Styling: Sethra Welton | Praxis & Co.
Corset: Fairytas
Halo: The Gilded Apparition
Skirt: Haus of Etherio
MUAH: Refine Beauty

Another shot from my "Going Extreme Without Ai" class at this year's Shutterfest! This time of the lovely Violet Deardor...
05/16/2025

Another shot from my "Going Extreme Without Ai" class at this year's Shutterfest! This time of the lovely Violet Deardorff!
Good lighting and a great model will take ya a long way!! ❤😍

Makeup: Brandi Patton | Refine Beauty

Oh man, I missed this the day of!But as always, it's a HUGE honor to be featured on Fstoppers, especially for another ph...
05/12/2025

Oh man, I missed this the day of!
But as always, it's a HUGE honor to be featured on Fstoppers, especially for another photo of the day!! 😭🥰

From my "Dark Art Without the Dark" class at Shutterfest 2025!As mentioned in my post yesterday, to do "dark without the...
05/01/2025

From my "Dark Art Without the Dark" class at Shutterfest 2025!

As mentioned in my post yesterday, to do "dark without the dark" I decided to lean into negative emotions and portraying them with lighter imagery. In this one, I wanted to convey a sense of isolation, loneliness, and disconnection.

Here's a short excerpt of what I wrote to explain this concept:

"Here we've used probably the last color anyone would think of when picturing dark; pastel pink. We’ve dressed them up in a classic “dunce” style hat. For those unfamiliar, a dunce cap was a disciplinary method of the past, typically used in schools. It used public shame, isolation, and ridicule to punish children for misbehaving. It singled a child out and called them stupid in front of their peers. So our subject is wearing this dunce cap, perhaps signifying that the subject is someone who feels disconnected from other people and they blame themselves for it, feeling stupid or worthless. Maybe it means they are punishing themselves with this isolation, feeling they did something wrong that they should have known better about. Or maybe it means someone else is punishing them, blaming them for something and punishing them with isolation? We’ve also got the robes, ghostly in nature. Maybe they convey a sense of time passed, ghostly in nature because this person has been isolated and alone for so long? We're also covering the face, which takes the human element out of it, but not entirely. This could be used to show a disconnection with humanity as a whole, or the uncertainty of one’s identity. It could mean they’ve lost themselves and who they are, or even that they are hiding their true selves due to shame fear. But what about the pink? Well, it could convey a sense of innocence, a childlike view of the world and a confusion as to why they've been sent to this hell when they’ve been nothing but soft and kind. Maybe it’s meant to show someone who showed up for something exciting and loving, dawning all pink to celebrate the happiness they felt, and then they were unexpectedly trapped in this limbo of sadness wearing the facade of happy emotions, but locked into this never-ending prison, showing the difference between our intentions and our outcomes.
Or maybe even they are someone who is horrible to others, hiding their true selves and face from you, and the pink color and hat are misdirects. The hat being a guise for someone pretending to be sorry and remorseful, publicly punishing themselves to prove to you that they’ve changed solely as a means to lure you back in. The color pink inviting you to feel safe and jubilant in their presence, worn only as a mask to disguise what is truly underneath. Maybe it’s someone who preys on your vulnerability by luring you in when you find yourself trapped in the same empty place as them, like how one might feel if they’re trapped in an abusive relationship, with this subject being the abuser. Are they put in this place for a reason? Did someone put them here? Did they put themselves here? Is it a bid for companionship? Is it solace and comfort found in isolation? Is it a punishment? A prison? A trap? What is it to you?"

Model: Steven Bound
Styling/Accessories: Me

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