About the Creator
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. Known as “the heart surgeon with a camera,” she has disrupted the beauty myth for over a decade, healing discomfort with what individuals see in the mirror, and helping professionals look natural, credible, and powerful in their online presence.
A former team member of The Oprah Winfrey Show and OWN, Meka blends psychology, leadership insight, and visual storytelling to build trust through imagery.
She is also a speaker, memoirist, host of the upcoming podcast Unbeautifying, and author of the Corporate Headshot Day Playbook—a strategic framework for elevating team confidence and creating high-trust corporate branding.
Photos of Meka by Taylor Imel & Paula Palmer
• The SMP Team •
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.
