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Black Sheep Productions

Themed, stylized events with the mission of female empowerment.
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11/07/2023

I'm so sad that I only got to do 2 photoshoots with Black Sheep Productions but I feel so lucky that I did them. I wish I would've been able to do more but I'm thankful for everything they've given me. You guys shown a light on me that I never seen in myself. The pretty pictures were just the icing on the cake for me. The best part was being around women that wanted nothing but the best for you. Lifting each other up and not competing with each other. The love you'd feel just entering the room was life changing. I'll forever be grateful for The confidence that I've gained since my short time with them.
I'll miss playing dress up with everybody. ❤️
I really hope to stay in contact with everyone and hopefully getting together. If not I might just lose it. 🥹❤️
🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 - Ashley Hall

11/07/2023

Thank you for being so welcome and opening to the black sheep, eccentrics, weirdos, freaks, and hysterical women, as well as those who walk on the normal side! You have provided a safe place for us to come together as a mixed group and live out our desires to play dress up and pretend to be these amazing characters. Your support and encouragement boosted so many self esteems to the point that you changed lives. So many of us are much more confident, open, and living life the the fullest. The models, hair and makeup teams, photographers, and caterer have formed such a big network. The friendships that have been made have roots running deep. We may not see each other as often, but many of us will continue to cross paths in some way shape or form. I wish you all the best in your future endeavors! May your quality time with your families bring wonderful memories. I will truly cherish the memories I have made this past year. Love you all! - Crissa Cooey

11/07/2023

Thank you Black Sheep Productions for letting be apart of this amazing group. I will cherish all the friendships, laughter, and memories from the last 3.5 years. ♥️🥂 - ⭐️ICON⭐️ Katie Parker

11/06/2023

i will forever be thankful for the laughter, love, self confidence and friendships Black Sheep Productions gave me. it was never about the final images or the videos from the shoots but about women coming together and just being women. here is to the end of a very beautiful era, i will miss playing dress up with every single one of you🥂

- Madison Montgomery

11/01/2023

♥️ Announcement from Internal Affairs ♥️

In 2020, the universe gave a little nudge to push three women together, none of us knowing what would lie ahead. How could any of us have expected what would come of it? For the past 3.5 years, we have built this family, in this season of creativity, of learning self-love, finding lost silliness, and building relationships, including our own friendship.

As we sat down to discuss 2024 and what we want from it, each of our answers ultimately came down to one thing: We want rest and more time with our families. With that, we have collectively made the bittersweet decision that the season of Black Sheep Productions is coming to an end.

Black Sheep Productions wasn’t born with an end goal in mind. It has always been about the journey, about being in the moment and experiencing magic as it happens. You all have helped us, everyday wives and mothers, create absolute magic for 3.5 years and we cannot thank you enough for that. Thank you for trusting us and letting us into your lives with our big ideas, big personalities, and big love. Thank you for giving us the privilege of connecting with women in our community, working with some of the most talented creatives, playing dress up, and using art to tell stories. We are better women’s women, better artists, better humans because of this beautiful season and this beautiful experience.

At the end of the day, we are so incredibly proud of what we have done. We hope we made a difference in our little corner of the world and helped make this season of your life beautiful, too. Thank you for being there with us along the way. It has been an honor.

With love always,
Internal Affairs - Anderson, Skyla, & Cale ♥️

10/16/2023

⛓️Hysteria⛓️

"The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy" Girl Interrupted

Photos by: Black Sheep Arts
Location: 304 Collective

10/15/2023

⛓️Hysteria⛓️

For centuries, doctors readily diagnosed women with “hysteria,” an alleged mental health condition that explained away any behaviors or symptoms that made society…uncomfortable.

⚠️ Trigger Warning ⚠️

Photos by: Jermy Meade / Jphoto
Location: 304 Collective

10/13/2023

⛓️Hysteria⛓️

For centuries, doctors readily diagnosed women with “hysteria,” an alleged mental health condition that explained away any behaviors or symptoms that made society…uncomfortable.

⚠️ Trigger Warning ⚠️

images used to depict mental illness, addiction, restraints, abuse of power and loss of freedom

Video by: Cody Alushin

10/12/2023

⛓️ HYSTERIA ⛓️
⚠️ Trigger Warning ⚠️

"Madness is the emergency exit.
You can just....step outside,
and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened.
You can lock them away...forever. - The Joker

Photo by: Brooklyn Ewing
Patient: ICON Ryndi Rata
Makeup: Mystic Makeup
Hair: Nicolena Alushin
Location: 304 Collective

10/12/2023

⛓️Hysteria⛓️

⚠️ Trigger Warning ⚠️

images used to depict abuse, mental illness, restraints, physical injury, distress

Recently, I was a part of a project with Black Sheep Productions. This group of creatives utilize artistic photography as a way to empower women. Sometimes these themes are super fun & pretty. However, some are gritty and raw and uncomfortable for some people to see/be apart of. "Hysteria" was just that.

Historically, "hysteria" was a diagnosis given to women who suffered from various mental illnesses…or even those who just didn’t fit the societal mold. Emotional, weird, immodest, disobedient. Lobotomies, electroconvulsive therapy, sedatives, asylums, isolation were some of the treatment modalities used. Nowadays, mental illness has different names and treatments, but in many places is still very stigmatized. In my opinion, mental healthcare is still very flawed in the United States.

Body dysmorphia, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, mania, trauma, & rage are all very real issues to me or people I love. Hopefully, if nothing else, it helps someone know they're not alone. 🖤

Written by: Hannah Province

Photos by: Taylor Stickley Photography
Model: Hannah Province
Location: 304 Collective

10/12/2023

⛓️Hysteria⛓️

⚠️ Trigger Warning ⚠️

Personal Story/Experience by: Candice Roque

Anxiety - Depression - PTSD

My feet hit the floor every morning and I hope that it's a good day. I try not to let my mind wonder as I head downstairs to work out. If I workout I'll be ok right? The endorphins will be enough to kickstart a good mood for the day.

But....... life doesn't always work out that way when you fight anxiety/depression/ and PTSD every day. The fear is always in the back of my mind of am I gonna break today? Am I going to make it through the day without going into my shell and not being ok? How can I help someone today? How do I make sure no one knows I'm not ok? This is living for me.

For years I was made to believe that I was to be seen and not heard. That my voice didn't matter and never would. So why even bother worrying about making it thru the day?

Anxiety - getting so anxious about situations that I can't control that my brain goes into a thousand directions of all the things that could go wrong, what I've done wrong, that no one wants me, wants to be around me.....

Depression - being so low that I don't want to get out of bed, that the world works just fine without me, that I get so quiet and can't talk to anyone cause who would wanna talk to me anyways.

PTSD - being so triggered by a noise, a sound, a look that you can't breathe or think right. Its a silent hell every day.

Just remember you're not alone.

Photos by: Whatmiasaw Photography
Location: 304 Collective
Makeup: Mystic Makeup
Hair: Camille Sutton
Model: Candice Roque

10/11/2023

⛓️Hysteria⛓️

"All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul and they will never notice how broken you really are."
-Robin Williams

⚠️ Trigger Warning ⚠️

Hysteria by Black Sheep Productions
Photographer: Brooklyn Ewing
Model: Crissa Cooey
Hair: Ace Hair Nicolena Alushin
Makeup: Ashley Hall
Location: 304 Collective

10/11/2023

⛓️Hysteria⛓️

⚠️Trigger warning: su***de and depression. ⚠️

💊Time for some hard to swallow pills.💊

"I've been suicidal.
I emptied a bottle of pills on the dining room table and counted the capsules. One by one. Put them in groups of two. And then three. And then 4. I looked at them in all front of me. What if? Would this stop me from feeling?

My partner walked in and found me. I put my head in my hands and cried. Tears because of how I isolated, lonely, and utterly alone I felt or because my plans were interrupted?

I was not okay and it only got worse. I am not ready to talk more about my suicidal ideations or attempt. It's hard for me to even share this much. Every year, I tell myself next September (Su***de Prevention Month) I'll finally share my story. And every year, I am greeted with my own shame and self-loathing of the choices and decisions I made in my darkest times.

Today is different. I feel like I can share a piece of my darkness. The more we talk about the mental illnesses we face, the more we can decrease the stigma.

Hysteria by Black Sheep Productions was cathartic for the women who participated. Together, we faced our mental illness, trauma, and more, head on.

For me, it was a way to express all of the unresolved angst from when I was at my lowest mentally. My picture is grotesque and unhinged, much like how mental illness makes you feel on the inside."

Written by: Molly Anne

I know that hurt. I know that pain. You are not alone. Reach out if you need help. Call the 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline or go to https://988lifeline.org/.

I'm so thankful to be alive.
And doing much, much better.❤️

Photographer: Diesel Dazzles Photography
Makeup: Mystic Makeup
Hair: Camille Sutton
Location: 304 Collective
Nurse: Ashly Swisher Ash

10/10/2023

On behalf of World Mental Health Day:

The theme was Hysteria and we were asked to make it personal. I jumped in with both feet aaaaaand then I hestitated. I almost didn’t do the shoot.

There’s this curated, picture perfect social media version of all of us. And while I feel like I share a lot of my struggles — it’s still hard. But that’s never stopped me before so….

This is where I’ll start.

I struggle with the massive weight of worthlessness and behind the mask of “I’m fine”.

For years, I let my feelings around what I was worthy of dictate how I showed up. I would feel unworthy and worthless. If I’m being honest, I still allow these feelings to hold me back. It was actually hard to choose what to write on the tape because I struggle with both deeply.

And the dreaded, “I’m fine”. Shew. This one is a doozy for real. I was not fine. For a very, very long time. But I also felt like a burden for saying it. I felt like no one cared. I felt like if I share what’s really inside of me — I’ll chase everyone away. So, I said, I’m fine. It’s fine. Everything is fine.

When in actuality, the screaming on the inside of my mind was deafening. But every time I would let it out — it was worse. It was easier to wear the mask. Compartmentalize. And plaster a smile on my face…

So, if you’re feeling any of this — you’re not alone. 🖤🖤

Written by: Stephanie LaDeaux

⛓️Hysteria⛓️

Model: Stephanie LaDeaux

Black Sheep Productions

Hair & Makeup: Camille Sutton and Ashley Hall

📸: Brooklyn Ewing

10/10/2023

⚠️ Trigger warning: Mental illness.

The idea of Hysteria was to create art that evokes emotion, to show what mental illness can feel like.

Depression. Anxiety. Panic disorder. Bipolar 2. PTSD/C-PTSD. Postpartum depression. Postpartum anxiety.

I chose to use the majority of my time in front of the camera to focus on Bipolar 2, something that ruled my life for a long time. Something I will live with forever. Bipolar 2 tends to have a pattern of roughly 2 weeks of lows/depression, followed by a week of mania. Rinse and repeat.

Mania can be absolute euphoria. It is motivation, a spotless house, hyper-organization, feeling like you can do anything and everything. I call it the “this is who I am now” feeling. It convinces you that everything is fine.

Mania can also be hell. It is rage, panic, overstimulation. It is impulsiveness, spending too much money, making plans that you won’t be able to follow through with later. It is painful and irrational and convinces you that you are trapped and you have to fight like hell to make your way out.

Depressive episodes ruled most of my life, rendering me incapable of showering, getting dressed, or leaving my house.

In March 2021, I broke. My husband watched it happen and later said, ”This was different. It looked like everything inside of you shattered.” I didn’t want to die but I also knew I couldn’t survive as I was. A friend phrased it as, “It’s like trying to escape a burning building.” It was debilitating. I couldn’t think, I couldn’t function, my entire body trembled for days. With the push of my husband and a couple friends, I got medicated. At that point in my life, I was having an average of 3-4 major panic attacks a week. I was put on an emergency dose of Buspar while I waited for an appointment with a psychiatrist. Medication saved my life when no amount of love or willpower could.

Buspar. Wellbutrin. Lamictil.

Every medication bottle used in Hysteria belonged to me. Every single one of those bottles has not only kept me alive, but thriving. I am a better wife, mother, friend, and human because I am not living in the foggy hell of Bipolar 2.

Let this be a love letter to medication.
Let it be about doing whatever the hell we need to do to survive.
Let it be about awareness, about breaking stigmas, about stepping out of shadows and into less lonely spaces.
Let it be about truly seeing and loving the dark parts of each other and ourselves.

If you feel the effects of mental illness, medicated or not, diagnosed or not, I hope you feel seen and loved and know that you are worthy of every good thing that happens to you. I’m so glad you’re here. ♥️
By: Ashley Anderson Co Owner of BSP

⛓️HYSTERIA⛓️ by Black Sheep Productions
📷: Eli Haas/ Moon Waves Photography

10/07/2023

For centuries, doctors readily diagnosed women with “hysteria,” an alleged mental health condition that explained away any behaviors or symptoms that made society…uncomfortable.

⛓️ HYSTERIA ⛓️
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⚠️ Trigger warning: This Halloween season, our topic is mental illness. These women have chosen to share their personal experiences and the visuals and information we share will showcase the various symptoms/effects that can accompany it.
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Video by: Taylor Stickley Photography

10/06/2023

10/05/2023

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"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." - Alfred Hitchcock

⛓️ Hysteria ⛓️

🎬: Black Sheep Productions

📌: 304 Collective

📷: Ashley Anderson / Black Sheep Arts

💄: Ashley Durnal / Mystic Makeup

💈: Camille Sutton

Models (left to right):

Jamie Lynn Buckner

Shawna Sines

Icon Katie Parker

10/05/2023

Welcome to ⛓Hysteria⛓
The Nurse will see you now....

Photo by: Diesel Dazzles Photography
Nurse: Ashly Ash
Makeup: Dayla’s Dose of Makeup
Hair: Madalyn Grace Baker
Location: 304 Collective

10/05/2023

"Dont fret precious I'm here.
Step away from the window...
& go back to sleep...."

⛓Hysteria⛓

Photo by: Cassandra Culver Diesel Dazzles Photography
Makeup: Mystic Makeup
Hair: Nicolena Alushin
Location: 304 Collective

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