Tim Sabatino: On Photographing Princess Joy Villa

Joy Villa!!! She’s super smart, she’s beautiful, she’s determined and she’s going to hit it big!

Joy Villa is an actress, a singer-songwriter, a musician, an actress, a writer, a nutrition coach and now a bodybuilder competitor. This girl is on fire and she is capable of everything!

Joy is a power house. When she puts her mind on something, she makes it happen. And more than just happen, she becomes successful at it! For example, Joy signed up for her first bodybuilding competition a couple months ago. She worked really hard for weeks to transform her body, all while remaining healthy, which can be tricky in the world of bodybuilding with all the false data about building muscle and being vegan. The competition was this weekend: Not only did she reach her goal and participated, she did so with honors as she left the stage with not one but two trophies!!!

Joy has already written several books: Poems by the Princess was published in 2013, and The Fit And Sexy Vegan just got published this year. It is a nutritional program that teaches the basics of a healthy body, mind and lifestyle. Joy loves to inspire and help others, and she does so through coaching. As a vegan athlete, she is proof that no one needs meat to have enough protein and that the vegan way of life is actually one of the most ethical there is.

Tim Sabatino met Joy Villa at a self-improvement seminar on New Year’s Eve 2011. They immediately became friends. Her positive attitude and her love for life and people are her most communicable characteristics, and it’s simply impossible to not love her at once. Joy assisted Tim on the Kasem Diaries photo shoot that he did with Kerri Kasem in 2012 (Click here to read about that collaboration), shooting and editing the behind the scenes video, which you can watch below.

Tim later photographed Joy for his Sensuelle fine art photography collection.

Joy Villa is engaged to Danish photographer Thorsten Von Overgaard.

Watch the video of Tim Sabatino, interviewed by Theta Creata about working with Joy Villa.

More about Tim Sabatino’s work: The Loft at Liz’s, Furious 7, Films, Reggie James, Kyle Cartieri, ITT Nightvision, Nightcrawler Driving Team.

Singer Joy Villa photographed by Tim Sabatino for the Sensuelle Collection

Singer Joy Villa photographed by Tim Sabatino for the Sensuelle Collection

Here is the behind the scenes video of the Kerri Kasem photo shoot, shot edited by Joy Villa. Music by Joy Villa.

Show Joy Villa some love: Website, Instagram, YouTube.