Hera // Styled Shoot

Hera is the Queen of the Gods and the goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, and the heavens. A goddess of the Olympian generation, she is the daughter of Rhea and Cronus and sister to Hestia, Hades, Poseidon, Demeter, and Zeus. She is also the wife of Zeus. Together, they had several children: Ares, Hephaestus, and Hebe.

While Hera is faithful to Zeus, she has no love lost for his lovers or their children. She was wrathful and merciless when it came to her husband’s affairs even if the women and their children were innocent. However, she did show a benevolent side when it came to protecting others.

 As Queen of the Gods, Hera is greatly respected and worshipped by both mortals and gods. As she is the goddess of women, she presides over all the important events in a women’s life and has the ability to bless, protect, curse, and help both mortals and gods. Hera is described as a solemn, majestic, and loyal goddess with a proud and vengeful nature.

The Greek goddess Hera, often associated with heavenly royalty, is represented by emblems symbolizing her majestic and proud nature. Her symbols are a cow, lily, peacock, diadem, scepter, lioness, throne, eagle, marriage, childbirth, and the heavens.

Photographer’s Statement:

The seven Greek Goddesses, Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hera, Hestia, and Persephone, are a crucial part of Greek mythology. There were considered the pinnacle of beauty, power, and majesty. As such, there were the subject of fascination and admiration for the people in Ancient Greece. Each goddess had certain domains that they ruled over and were prominent in many myths.

I hope to capture my vision of the Greek goddesses in my photographs to showcase the way that I see beauty, power, history, literature, and art. This collection of work comes from my desire to preserve and showcase my vision of not only powerful, strong, beautiful women, but a wonderful ancient society that still continues to influence us in our world today.