Life & Work with She Shee (Caitlyn Foley) of Middle & East Tennessee

Today we’d like to introduce you to She Shee (Caitlyn Foley).

Hi She Shee, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
She Shee (Caitlyn Foley) (b.1987) is an award winning & published American photographer + artist + outdoor brand photographer currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. My happiest days are spent traveling and experiencing landscape + nature with my loved ones. I’m a full time mother, entrepreneur, artist, creative outdoor brand photographer and Online retail store owner. Originally from the northeast, my move to Nashville created new opportunities to advance my career doing what I love. My days are often spent going on wild road trips & adventures outdoors- anywhere the lens takes me. I love to be adventurous with my fiancé & kiddos; road trips, travel, hiking, camping, and exploring the USA.

Way back I was drawn to the outdoors. As a little girl growing up, we traveled across America a few times. Throughout the years, I’ve learned to admire, explore, and appreciate our planet each day for how we see it. Fast forward to today, as an adventure creative outdoor brand photographer, my approach is to explore and help educate while connecting with my subjects through creative art, color, lighting, emotive visual storytelling, landscapes, and portraits. I aim to make you feel connected in the image, with the people, and our planet.

I started to continue my journey as an outdoor brand + content photographer & adventure fine art photographer with studies that began in mid 2000’s. Through my years traveling, camping and resonating with my family across the United States is an amazing experience with lots of memories exploring the outdoors. I always have my cameras in hand ready to explore with capturing epic landscape, portraits and extraordinary views.

The reasons why Im passionate and thrive for photography so much is to create powerful stunning images with my own personal development where we are able to see things in different perspectives while appreciating what the outdoors has to offer with helping others spread the love & learn to help work towards preserving our environment. I believe photography is a good way of teaching, connecting and understanding the importance of our planet & people.

As I discovered in middle school photography has always been my passion. I went on to earn a B.A. in Fine Arts & Design, Communication Design & Photography, Creative Courses, Workshops + Mentorship’s. She Shee Photography & Collection became a full time career in 2009 specializing in Freelance Creative Outdoor Brand + Adventure Content, Landscape & Portraiture Photographer as Master Editor in Photography. I won international awards ( 6X) I’ve been on front covers of magazines and been featured in magazines. I’ve been on blogs for my products for my online store for “best gift ideas for photographers.” Ive been featured on hubs, websites and so much more to come! Throughout my younger years fashion has always been a passion of mine and always had a dream for a unique one of a kind line. I’ve decided to jump into my dream and create my online retail store with my own images. Ive collaborated with artists to help bring my photographs to life. My line of products can be found in my online store, www.SheSheeCollection/shop.com

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
This is a very difficult industry and a tough one. The challenges and obstacles. The disappointments along the way. I often remember asking myself “Did I make the right choice?” “Should I close up and move on” I had more No’s than Yes’s. Ive have tried to connect with small & big companies with my store line, there response was “Your work is absolutely amazing and stunning, but this isn’t what we are looking for. I personally never gave up though. I have learned that you need to Create your own vision and your own brand. BE YOU!!!! Someone will believe in you. Don’t ever give up!!!

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
Caitlyn Foley (b.1987) is an award winning & published American photographer + artist who specializes in outdoor brand photography currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. I’m a freelance outdoor brand + content photographer & an online retail store owner. I specialize in landscape, outdoor brands, wildlife and nature & portraits. Im known for my bold, vibrant, earthy + filmy look with an eye for details. I have followed my dreams to capture and share the most beautiful places on earth through my lens and continues to share my journey through fine art photography with the hopes of one day being on National Geographic. I’ve created my online store based off the photographs that I took and created while you won’t find anywhere else.

Is there anyone you’d like to thank or give credit to?
I wanna give a big shout out to my Fiancé and My boys for believing in me. I love you boys <3! I wanna give a shout out to my clients, my investors, friends and family. I want to give a shout out to Aeilene my mastermind mentorship coach for businesses and branding. My mentor Stormy solis for teaching me capturing poetic emotive storytelling through my lens. My investors who helped get my store rolling. My family and friends who have always supported everything I have done in my business & my dreams ( you all know who you are! ) . I wanna give a shout out to my talented artist Kayleigh Eilenberger of Bananapressdesign.co who helped bring my envision of my store to life from my websites to all the designs of my photographs to my store. My clients who always believed in me to help capture + create beautiful commercial outdoor brand photography and my online store clients who came across my page on google & clients who supported my store along the way : without you guys my dream would have not come true. I Thank you all in every way and the bottom of my heart, I will never forget about you guys !!

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.shesheecollection.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shesheetravels
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SheSheeCollectionByCaitlynFoley
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlyn-foley-801176117/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@shesheetravels