Carla Coulson • Press

Carla Coulson, at 35, she walked away from a successful Sydney business and said yes to a completely different life, arriving in Florence with a camera she barely knew how to use on manual. What followed was a quarter-century of images that have appeared in the world’s finest magazines, a string of celebrated books published with Penguin, and a body of fine-art work that has found its way onto walls from Paris to Sydney, New York to Athens.

Press and media have long been drawn to Coulson’s story — not just because her photographs are beautiful, but because the life behind them has been an adventure. From her now-iconic Italian coastal series to the sold-out Young Girl in Bloom prints; from the lush botanicals of Rewilding to the devastating tenderness of her series The Beauty of Living and Dying — the world’s editors keep returning to ask: how do you do it? How do you create art with meaning? 

Below you will find a curated selection of interviews, profiles and features — from Harper’s Bazaar and Marie Claire to Domain Australia, Dolce Magazine, Pop Photo, International Traveller and beyond — that tell that story, in her words and theirs.

The full arc of Coulson’s extraordinary life — from a million-dollar Sydney business that left her hollow, through illness, reinvention and the aha moment that crystallised into her most beloved series. A rare, candid account of what it truly means to transform a crisis into a creative turning point.

An Australian photographer living an Italian life channels her dual identity into images that celebrate her new everyday life.

How grief, flowers, and the hands of lisbon grandmothers transformed a personal farewell into an art form that can adorn your walls.

A gorgeous profile in which Coulson discusses following her heart to Florence, her love affair with the Leica M6 and M7, the humanist photographers who shaped her eye — from Doisneau to Cartier-Bresson — and why she believes the beach and flowers are the most honest subjects in the world.

A cover story exploring the single word that changed Coulson’s life irrevocably — and how she has since built a movement around it. Her eight Penguin-published books, her award-winning coaching program Yes, Yes, Yes, and her mission to reconnect women over 40 with their passion, creativity and power.

From a four-year-old girl walking across a country tarmac with her teddy bear, to shooting the Amalfi Coast for international publications — Coulson reflects on what travel has given her, the art of packing light, and why she believes the most important journey is always the one back to yourself.

A deep-dive into the making of Jeune Fille en Fleur: how Coulson stumbled onto the idea via morning iPhone walks through Paris, why she abandoned the rigid fashion-world setup, and how working with real young women — not professional models — gave the series its extraordinary emotional charge.