‘Whimsical Magazine, Tales Of Portraits... Whimsical Magazine is a new independent fortnightly publication aiming to highlight and sublimize portrait photography in all its forms, envisioned as a work of art. Additionally to awesome and unique editorial or commercial portraits, every issue will consist of interviews and articles spotlighting talents, from every part of the world, who will inspire every photography and image enthusiast and stimulate you to excel in your art, in order to make you live your passion more completely. Passion, creativity, emotion and audacity are our 4 watchwords. Florence Trempe is the photographer behind the lens. She bought her first camera in 2017. ‘I was at university teaching and at the time I was working in the most beautiful café in the world (Les Cafés de Julie) I collected my tip for 1 year For a full year, I saved the 0.25¢ that customers left in the cardboard cup at the front of the register... And here I am now making a living from my photography.’ Florence started her business in 2020, at 38 weeks pregnant, telling herself that she was going to dedicate her year of maternity to photography...3 years and 2 babies later, she threw herself 100% into entrepreneurship to make a living from photography and carry out projects with lots of wonderful humans! As you may have noticed, Florence specializes in maternity photography, newborn and breastfeeding. It’s because a few years ago, her life changed following the birth of her first son. She wanted to take photos of the strength of women, to reflect the passage of these little beings within them and the complicity they have with them. ‘After a cesarean section that went wrong, I found myself with my body empty and damaged. A body that I didn’t recognize. A limp and tired body. A body like I had never seen before. I had never seen this body because no one shows it and I would dare say that no one talks about it. No one told me that after giving birth we would carry our empty stomachs for weeks, that our painful hips would not return immediately, that our breasts would become engorged with milk to the point of pain and then completely empty and leave room for stretched skin, that our dark purple stretch marks were not going to immediately become soft and white and that our body was not going to have the strength to train, to run, even to walk for some…