Sydney Valiente

This is a new website. Blogging is also new-ish. If you scroll back, I've had bouts of consistency (and inconsistency) in the past with...

Remember my 2019 project, #BlindLocation? In case you're late, here's the entire project summarized in a video... With that concept in...

I've started holding community events for creatives, and I really love it so far. Coming up as a photographer back before Instagram is...

Starting a new project this year! I'm calling it #OffLocation as a spinoff from my 2019 project, #BlindLocation. This time I'm creating a...

The Final #BlindLocation is here. This year was reeeeal slow for me, but looking back at it, I can't believe how fast it flew by. This...

This week’s model is Karina (aka @sobovsn). She’s 17, and she’s one of the best photographers I know—a total artist. For my next to last...

I'm sorry I keep pointing out the number each week, but we are at WEEK 50, and I'm just blown away by not just the support from all of...

This girl is so cool! Loved hanging with Ruwayda for the 49th #BlindLocation. We met for the first time during this shoot, and we had a...

Dusty and I had SO much fun making this week's #BlindLocation. B L A C K ~ F R I D A Y edition! I wrote the script with Dusty in mind....

I decided to make this week's shoot very chill with Jonah Peake. What makes a shoot chill you ask? For starters, we mostly played...

Kelly Lee is this week's #BlindLocation! Kelly reached out to me forever ago about wanting to model for this project. When the time...

This week's #BlindLocation is a little different, because IG won't let me post it on my page. I think I got hacked. Whatever. The show...

Um, hello Miguel, lookout for your doppelgänger coming through. Demetrius Ricard is this week's #BlindLocation. This beautiful man is...

Gettin' frightening this week in the spirit of Halloween! And I have the PERFECT model for this #BlindLocation. Actually, the spooky...

This week I learned that shooting someone on skates is hard. You know how to make it even harder? Add in some smoke bombs… without an...

Mallory Kessel is the 41st #BlindLocation model! We met on Instagram! God, I love technology. Meeting people through social media has...

This shoot is with Lindsay White. She's a talented singer/songwriter I met on Instagram several months ago. We did a shoot with her full...

Jaz is my awesome neighbor I met a few months ago at one of our resident happy hours. We live in an awesome artist community residence in...

The kid. Darius Allensworth. Darius hit me up, because he wanted to learn more about photography, so I told him he should do a shoot with...

I love shooting with people I've never met. Shooting with Indya for this week's #BlindLocation was my first time meeting her, and she was...