An entrepreneurial event with a difference is coming to Birmingham as a celebrity photographer puts her skills to the test with founders from all backgrounds from across the UK.
Unmasked is an event and photography exhibition of portrait shots of entrepreneurs including two female leaders local to Birmingham, as participants from the exhibition tell their stories, and celebrate what it looks like to be truly seen.
The event will take place on October 17 in the Jewellery Quarter, and it will provide local entrepreneurs with an opportunity to network with other founders and learn from each other about what it takes to grow a business with a personal brand behind it.
Celebrity photographer Joanna Wood, whose photos of entrepreneur Sara Davies have recently featured in the Daily Express, has been working with all participants - 30 solo entrepreneurs - to help them find their confidence to stand in front of the camera, sharing their stories of overcoming adversity, and vulnerability.
She is now inviting local business owners to come and meet the people behind the businesses as she showcases these vulnerable portraits, and celebrates mission-led founders.
Each photograph will be accompanied by a story that the entrepreneur has shared about what part of themselves they were keeping hidden.
Featuring in the exhibition are local Birmingham-based entrepreneurs Regina Martin and Nerissa Herald.
Regina, ’The Confidence Healer’, who also runs inclusive networking organisation, The NETwork, is hoping to empower fellow entrepreneurs to live their authentic lives and embrace every part of themselves. Nerissa, founder of the Rebel Coaching Academy, hopes to inspire people to find the rebel in themselves.
Alongside the exhibition of photos, the event is also hosting six entrepreneurial speakers who will also be sharing unfiltered stories of success, fear, healing, power and purpose.
