Helasai Photography

05/05/2026

08/19/2025

The image becomes less about fashion as spectacle and more about fashion as survival—a way of asserting presence, dignity, and creativity in unsettling environments. It speaks to the resilience of self-expression when the world feels unmoored, and how style—even when drawn from the eclectic and secondhand—can be a quiet form of defiance.

Model: Yolie

08/18/2025

👉 “Would you thrive or fade in the middle of chaos?”

This portrait embodies the idea of self in chaos. Surrounded by a tangle of mismatched clothes, textures, and colors, the subject emerges as a figure of quiet strength and resilience. The backdrop—cluttered, thrift-like, and almost overwhelming—becomes a metaphor for the noise and instability of our times. Yet, within that disorder, she sits poised, deliberate, and unshaken.

Model: Yolie

06/24/2025

More photos taken at the mermaid workshop.
Model: Leslie Bayles

06/22/2025

Yesterday, I attended a fantastic photography workshop led by Sanjay N. Patel and Candice Ghai, where I took these beautiful photos of models Rachael Healey and Leslie Byles.
Mua: Amie Pena

Candice Ghai
Sanjay N Patel
Rachael Healey
Leslie Byles@

10/01/2023

“I don’t know whether I’m the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn’t I dominate it? I’m the one really telling it, after all.”
Anne Rice,

02/18/2023

Between the mask of emotions life happens.

02/18/2023

We hide from the world behind masks, we play the social game of multiple faces and, we are all of them.
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Sometimes, someone is willing to pose for me… and I’m grateful because is not very often.

Thank you

02/16/2023

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde.

02/15/2023

“Your heart and soul are full of beautiful, colorful, vibrant threads, and you deserve to shine.”
Jamie Edelbrock, Tangled Up