About

Photography as Ceremony — Antü

I am Daniela Miranda | Antüpewma Rülkelme Mella. Hija to Mapu (Pachamama), nieta to Abuelita Moon. My Mapuche name, Antüpewma—Sunlit Dream—reminds me that art is a path of remembering. I move between motherhood and artistry, ceremony and image, tending the threshold where the lens becomes an altar and each frame a blessing.

Photography as Ceremony is the heart of my work—image as medicina, witness as prayer. This is not a photoshoot; it is a return. Together we unlearn what was imposed, listen for what is true, and allow your truest self to arrive. Through cacao, breath, intuitive movement, and the language of light, we create a space where beauty is not performed but revealed. You leave with fine-art images that carry the feeling of your becoming—radiant, rooted, unmistakably you.

My practice bridges intuitive photography, hypnosis-informed coaching, and ritual. I serve as a tender bridge between your eternal blueprint and your present self, so the wisdom you carry can be seen and honored. I come to this work through years of image-making, community ceremony, and projects devoted to liberating how we see ourselves and each other.

Before this evolution, I founded Real Beauty: Uncovered, a large-scale storytelling project that challenged beauty standards and invited people to be witnessed as they are. That work received healing-arts recognition, was featured in museums and community spaces, on News12 NJ, and was invited to the White House in 2016. I hold those acknowledgments with gratitude—and with the knowing that the deepest milestone is quieter: the moment you feel at home in your own skin.

You’ve arrived at the meeting place of image and prayer, where the lens becomes an altar and each frame a blessing.

Lineage matters. Reciprocity matters. My work is guided by Indigenous memory and a commitment to ethical storytelling. I enter with reverence, listen more than I speak, and honor the living web—ancestors, land, and the body as archive. The images we make together are not just for today; they are offerings for those who come after us.

If you feel the pull, come. Step into ceremony and be seen. Here, we don’t perform beauty—we remember it. Here, the lens remembers, the body answers, and the image becomes a blessing you can hold.

Press Bio

Daniela Miranda (Antüpewma) is a ceremonialist of Mapuche ancestry, seer, and fine-art photographer whose practice—Photography as Ceremony—bridges ritual, hypnosis-informed coaching, and portraiture to create images as acts of witness and return.

Her previous project, Real Beauty: Uncovered, received healing-arts recognition, was featured in museums and media, and was invited to the White House in 2016.

She lives and works at the meeting place of image and prayer.