“When I’m not feeling my best, I look at my photos and they make me feel fantastic.”

Confidence looks good on you.
• Portrait photography in Chicago, focused on presence, not performance. •

Personal Branding, Corporate Headshot Days,
Transformational Portait Experiences

If you never thought it was possible to enjoy being in front of a camera…
If you don’t feel your current photos represent the real you…
If you ever uttered the phrase, “not photogenic…”
You’ve found what you’re looking for.

OUR CONFIDENCE MAP • a different kind of portrait experience

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Calm Before the Camera™

Guided tools that dissolve camera anxiety and reconnect you with your natural presence.

Experience

Portrait Sessions

Personal Branding, professional headshots, and transformational portrait experiences created in Chicago and beyond.

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Unbeautifying

Conversations, writing, and speaking that challenge beauty myths and help show up more fully in life.

Personal, professional, or group?
All portrait services
begin here.

Design Call

Because being photographed is not always
easy, there’s a unique system
built into our studio approach.

Prepare with the Confidence System

How do you want to be seen?

PERSONAL or PROFESSIONAL

GROUPS or CORPORATE TEAMS

SOCIAL MEDIA & VIDEO

Seven powerful truths to turn your dread into confidence.
Transform how you experience the lens… and the mirror.

START Calm Before the Camera™

Begin before the camera turns on.

Chicago Portrait Photographer

“Beauty is not confined to magazine covers.
Beauty is not an unattainable object.
Beauty is what happens when we love who we are.”

Meet the Heart Surgeon with a Camera

years of branding

years of portraits

global cities serviced

faces photographed

portrait success

Media

The Psychology of Being Seen

Listen to Meka discuss confidence, disrupting beauty myths, and visibility with podcast hosts and industry leaders.

Media

Photo of Kate Hall, created by SpiderMeka

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in front of a lens?

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Streams of Silk

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SpiderMeka’s Silk Studio is located at 4311 N. Ravenswood Ave. Suite 301, Chicago, IL 60613

• for professionals, creatives, entrepreneurs, corporate teams, and those whom do not enjoy being photographed •

“When I’m not feeling my best, I look at my photos and they make me feel fantastic.”

Confidence looks good on you. • Portrait photography in Chicago, focused on presence, not performance. •

Personal Branding, Corporate Headshot Days, Transformational Portait Experiences

If you never thought it was possible to enjoy being in front of a camera… If you don’t feel your current photos represent the real you… If you ever uttered the phrase, “not photogenic…” You’ve found what you’re looking for.

OUR CONFIDENCE MAP • a different kind of portrait experience

Personal, professional, or group? All portrait services begin here.

Because being photographed is not always easy, there’s a unique system built into our studio approach.