**S O I R S C E**

My name, “Soirsce” is Gaelic in origin and pronounced "sur-sha." Another variation on Saoirse. If you want to watch a funny clip about how to pronounce my name, check out Saoirse Ronan’s interview here.

H E L L O! I'm Soirsce Artemis Moriarty, the photographer behind Artemis Photography. I'm a wedding & portrait photographer based in Door County, Wisconsin.

I am happiest when I'm creating, riding my horses, tending my little garden and chicken coop and spending warm summer days at the beach with my family. I enjoy the creative process in all forms and I love being surrounded by nature. I feel truly blessed that my job is to capture special moments in people’s stories, whether that may be a mother's love of her little ones or a couple that’s crazy about each other! I'm happy to travel all over the world but Door County, Green Bay, Appleton, Milwaukee and Madison, WI, are especially easy for me!

HOW I WORK Being photographed is an intimate experience. My interaction-based posing strategy produces artistic imagery and encourages authentic connection, that remarkable moment when real is captured. As a classically trained painter, I also offer traditional, artistically posed portraits. I shoot with Canon photography gear. I try to use natural light as much as possible, I find it the most flattering for my subjects. I love capturing candid moments in time, but I am confident in guiding my subjects for posed shots as well. My goal is for my clients to have fun and focus on each other. I try to set my subjects up to feel comfortable in the scene, usually by giving a prompt, and making minor but important posing adjustments so they look their best, this way they look as natural and as “un-posed” as possible. My aesthetic is continually being influenced and refined, but one thing that never changes is my love of film-like editing, the artistry of my craft and capturing deep connections.

**HISTORY**

Soirsce is a fine art painter with a particular fascination with the beauty of the human form. She has over 17 years of wedding photography experience. She grew up in a back-to-the-earth family in a small town in Wisconsin, and spent her childhood running barefoot in the woods with her siblings, playing with her horses, and drawing. She enrolled in art school full-time at the age of fifteen, graduated at eighteen, and started working with photography. She started doing professional wedding photography in 2008, and her photography work has since been published by many print and online magazines such as Junebug Weddings, Tribe Archipelago, Artfully Wed, Le Magnifique Blog, A NorthWoods Wedding, Something Turquoise, Confetti Daydreams and The Peninsula Pulse and several Door Wedding magazine covers to name a few.

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