The Spider Team
Meet the SpiderMeka Portraits Team.
Curating the best moments for the world to see, our team will make your experience an unforgettable one.
Meka
Meka Hemmons is a Chicago-based portrait photographer and creator of the Calm Before the Camera™ confidence system. For over a decade, she has helped everyday individuals and professionals look natural, credible, and powerful in their online presence.
A former team member of The Oprah Winfrey Show and OWN, Meka’s work now sits at the intersection of psychology, leadership, and visual storytelling.
She is the host of the upcoming podcast Unbeautifying: Shifting How We See to Heal How We Live and the author of a forthcoming book on confidence, perception, and the emotional architecture of trust.
Photos of Meka by Taylor Imel & Paula Palmer
Paula
Photography & Design Assistant
How lucky am I that I get to experience the magic that happens every time Meka gets someone in front of her camera? The process is a sight to behold. Such warmth, intuition, creativity, connection and power. I learn something new (on many different levels) in each session.
As an ex-Graphic Designer and Art director, it’s a joy to be a part of this creative team, not only for my own artistic growth, but also to help create the space for others to transform before my very eyes. And the results are beautiful.
I love my job.
Kristina
Graphic Artist
Previously working alongside Meka for almost 20 years in environs including Harpo Studios, Inc. and The Oprah Winfrey Network, we share an appreciation of natural beauty. I heartily join her quest to celebrate the unique resplendence of each individual who passes through the doors of the Silk Studio.
I maintain and create graphics and edit images to support the SMP brand. I feel at my best spinning webs in the background, with a purpose so subtle it often goes unnoticed, all to deliver end results you love.
