Cassandra Lynnae Behrendt is a photographer, graphic designer, and creative director focusing on unique commercial production shoots involving conceptual imagery and color. She started as a nine-year-old, spraying water on tulips to create a water droplet effect, and morphed into a 22-year-old, styling and producing sets with sophistication. One thing has always stayed the same - her attraction to the beauty of bright colors and stories.

The main subject of Cassandra Lynnae Behrendt’s work is a self-study of the tension between family and career, Christian upbringing and secular expectations, femininity, and modern societal goals for women. She asks the short yet confusing question, “can women have it all?” Women in the contemporary generation have clung to the feminist credo they were raised with, even as unresolvable tensions between family and career have steadily thinned their ranks. As a Christian woman, that tension becomes even more vital as outdated biblical expectations come into play. Boss Babe vs. Housewife? The tension is seen in a self-portrait series where Behrendt deals with the nagging issues she had growing up in a conservative Christian home and constantly wondering, “who am I supposed to be?”

"If women are as strong and successful as we have always been taught, why are we told that we cannot do it all?"

www.cassandralynnae.com | @cassandra.lynnae

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