I keep a mental list of the reasons women give me when they first reach out. Not the polished version they put in the inquiry form — the real one, the one that comes out ten minutes into the consultation once they stop explaining themselves. And lately, a pattern has been impossible to ignore: most […]

The phrase “women empowerment photography” gets used a lot. On websites, in Instagram captions, in marketing materials for everything from fitness studios to insurance companies. It’s been stretched pretty thin. So I want to be specific about what I mean when I use it — because the specificity matters, and it’s the reason women keep […]

I had a client a few years ago — I’ll call her M — who booked her session and then spent the entire time before it trying to talk herself out of it. She sent me three emails with variations of “I’m not sure I’m the type of person who does this.” She showed up […]