Testimonials

  • "For a long time I felt like I was the only crazy person who lived and breathed photography in a way that kept me lying awake at night."

    EJ, Victoria, Australia

  • "I love this space. It breathes life into me."

    Abi, Washington, USA

  • “Rapid mind expansion in creativity, with beautiful guidance and mentoring the way through. An open, supportive group of artists challenging the status quo. An artist’s feast."

    Susan, NSW, Australia

  • "I've been craving a community of likeminded artists, thinkers, visionaries and creatives. I eagerly enrolled as a Silent Seat, indulging in the incredible content that felt like an enriching experience worth more than what I paid for."

    Tetyana, Dublin, Ireland

  • "Sian Davey's talk was absolutely amazing. All the talks are so beautifully facilitated."

    Katherine, Cambridge, England

  • "Anastasia doesn’t just make you reflect on her feedback, but also on the questions you’ve asked in the first place and why you’ve asked them. Always incredibly valuable discussions — sometimes they hurt, but I appreciate the honestly so much. That’s what makes you think, rethink, improve, and step out of your comfort zone. And she never pushes her own views, but supports you in finding your own path."

    Lisa, Rhine Palatine, Germany

  • "I've been swimming in some serious mediocre spaces on the internet for the last few years. And by mediocre I mostly mean not rigorous, engaged, questioning, investigating. Mediocre to me is anywhere where someone thinks they have The Answer. I want to live questions rigorously with others doing the same. MC feels so nourishing for this reason."

    Julia-Rose, Queensland, Australia

  • "A coven of photographic artists."

    Francesca, New York, USA

  • "Wow. I'm so grateful. I have tears in my eyes. No one has ever analyzed my family photographs. I've never had a mentor or teacher in this style."

    Isabel, Zaragoza, Spain

  • "So thankful for your precision in feedback and a way forward. My frustrations are met with hope and direction. So spoilt for the voice, heart beat and grit MEMORY CULT arms me with."

    Tara, Uki, Australia

  • "Honestly, this group makes me think of the writing groups of old that would meet in dusty pubs on a Tuesday night to discuss drafts of novels that would go on to become part of history. It’s exciting to see what comes out of each person in draft form here that may turn into something larger elsewhere."

    Christina, North Carolina, USA

  • "I'm late for this month's project but that's what I love about MEMORY CULT: you can always be late to the party and fit right in."

    Bethany, NSW, Australia

  • "I am listening to your video with Lisa Sorgini and so much of what you say resonates. I have felt lost in that I photograph families and weddings but I also so desperately want to get back to making my own art. Somewhere between paying my bills I have stopped believing that those are all able to exist together: the family photography, the weddings and me being able to make my art and have this as a career. It feels like this is a community of people doing those exact things and that is in itself encouraging. I feel so normal.”

    Caitlin, Western Cape, South Africa

  • "The place I go when my head is racing and my mind starts to grasp what is not to grasp yet. It's the people there who understand the complications of a photographers brain. The sharing and caring of ideas, ideals, fuck ups and companionship. MC is inspiring like hell, motivating and what is most desirable for me, vulnerable.”

    Didi, California, USA

  • "Take what you want and please take it all. A lively group of photographers who are willing to make mistakes and give critiques. Willing to try something different. Hot."

    Addie, Missouri, USA

  • "It fuels me, it doesn’t allow me to give up on my craft. Anastasia is a nurturer who gives a damn and I love her for it. This space is sacred to the artist."

    Ashley, Tennessee, USA

  • "This is my safe space and my haven. The place that makes me feel like I'm never alone or isolated."

    Jasmine, South Australia

  • "An oasis, a reprieve from the norm. It's pure magic and I'm grateful for it every day."

    Amelia, Connecticut, USA

  • "I’m now a film obsessed re-energized photographer with 99 friends I haven’t met but really want to someday. It's such a special place. I think about it daily, every time I pick up my camera."

    Stephanie, Ohio, USA

  • "A cult to the obsessions of photography and intensity of making art but also a common ground, a place to come to be both vulnerable and strong in how each of us see our own selves and our art."

    EJ, Victoria, Australia

  • "The power that flows here is strong. The sisterhood, creativity, support and love that lives here is something I have not experienced anywhere else. I love the bravery, openness and safety found here. I find inspiration on IG but it quickly gets lost and forgotten. Here, it's beautifully contained by the walls of MC and it stays with me. I have never been so inspired as I have been here."

    Kelly, Washington, USA

  • "My life has and is continuing to change because of your presence in my life. I honestly never expected to meet someone who has a great impact on me this later in life."

    Madoka, New York, USA

  • "This is some of the best feedback I have ever received. I want to be the best photographer I can be. To. me, that means diving into the world of art and taking it seriously."

    Karen, Washington, USA

  • "In loooooooooove with your newsletter."

    Natalie, Bavaria, Germany

  • "All the things I perceive, have no one to talk about thus wonder about for YEARS. You bring the apparent plus the things between the lines concisely. I feel so deeply understood. Yours is the classroom I've always wanted to be in."

    Vipasana, Bavaria, Germany

  • "This month's prompts and content has blown my mind more than I can imagine a four-year degree would. Deep, profound learnings."

    Elle, Victoria, Australia

  • "I am so happy that you/memorycult is able to evoke and create such personal themes and ideas in me. It helps me so much that you always inspire us with the right topics at the right time."

    Sally, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

  • "Fuck this community is magical."

    Sasha, Alberta, Canada

  • "Your unwavering support for each of us is not unnoticed. You are our sounding board and guide and I honestly don't know how your brain can fit us all in there, our thoughts, explosions, ideas, confusions, moments, realizations, etc. but it does so effortlessly. You truly have a gift and I am so grateful you are in a space that can take us on this wonderful ride together."

    EJ, Victoria, Australia

  • "I like how everyone here is really kind to each other."

    Kristen, Victoria, Australia

  • "I honestly don't think a space like this exists outside of MC!!!! I come here for business, creative, relationship, artistic, emotional support & advice, and all you amazing women always have answers!!! Love you all!"

    Madoka, Brooklyn, NY

  • "MEMORY CULT has literally changed my life and reopened my heart again - you are so incredible at what you do. In that 15 minute conversation you totally fixed something I had been sitting on for ages. It was a game changer and now I'm confident in moving forward in film only!"

    Susan, Sydney, Australia

  • "For the first time in a long time I'm feeling inspired again just by finding artists and creatives who are like me and making the work I've been trying to make. You guys are my people."

    Lori, Colorado, USA

  • "Going through my archives, it's all there. I just needed some time to pass to see and appreciate it. So grateful for this space and these relationships."

    Sharday, Kommetjie, South Africa

  • "I've found a place where everything I read hits me right in the heart. There is so much recognition. It's like someone wrote who I am and what I had always in me. It all makes so much sense now."

    Ruby, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • "The open mind and heart that your work encounters in this group is unlike anything I had ever experienced."

    Ofelia, Novia Scotia, Canada