An award winning fine-art portrait and boudoir photographer, self-portrait artist and painter!  My work is heavily focused on body positivity, highlighting the power and beauty of the feminine form. 

 

My photography career didn't start off focusing on boudoir. I've specialized in fine-art portraiture and creative photography for most of the last decade. And while I'll always have a deep love for creative photography, something changed during the first boudoir session I shot. Seeing the profound impact I could have on women. The way she walks in slightly nervous and reserved and walks out a little taller, feeling confident and knowing her worth. The way her face lights up when I show her the back of the camera and it clicks, "This is ME, and I look AMAZING."

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I know it sounds corny, I know you've seen the word "empowered" more times than you can count if you've been searching for a boudoir photographer. It sounds like a major exaggeration to say a boudoir shoot is life-changing. But I'm going to do my best to explain to you exactly how it is.

 

My goal not just in photography, but in life Is to be open, honest and transparent. My own journey and struggle for self-love. has been quite a long one. I was diagnosed with a severe case of Crohn's Disease at the age of 11. And it's been two decades of extreme weight loss and weight gain, days with a stomach so distended I could be mistaken for pregnant, a distorted relationship with food because I need it to survive but it can also be the source of my pain, dealing with hair loss from chemotherapy drugs, stretch marks and scars that cover most of my body, and symptoms that the majority of people would find "embarrassing". Ultimately, it's been two decades of learning to love and embrace my body again.

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I don't tell you any of this for sympathy but to highlight that self-love is HARD. Really hard. My journey has been difficult but it's also what has led me to found, Stigma-free Ostomy, a media-based project aimed at raising awareness of those living with ostomies, chronic illness, and disability. And it's also what has expanded my career focus to include intimate portrait photography.

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It makes me so happy to have a career that helps women learn to love themselves and embrace everything about their bodies. To show how beautiful our bodies really are, even when we're fighting chronic illness or disability, have gained or lost some weight, whether we're coming to terms with our bodies after childbirth or have the stretch marks, loose skin, cellulite and battle scars that show we have simply lived. 

 

All bodies are beautiful. All women are beautiful and deserve to be admired.  Here, we make sure we practice the radical act of loving ourselves every single day.