Personal branding

Build a brand that lives rent free in people’s head

(like the HypMic credit songs in mine)

You have 50 milliseconds before someone has a first impression of you.
That’s a lot of pressure, right?

I get it. I hate pain point marketing too. I’d rather talk about how I can help you bring your brand visions to life.

Because I know you are ambitious about your impact in business.
Nobody has a business for long without conviction that the world needs what they bring to it.

I’ll tell you the truth: I hate “personal branding”. It brings images of the same stock set of images (you’ll find loads of shooting checklists on Google) on one side, or random “personality-based” photoshoots that are great personal portraits but say nothing about your business.
And eugh, that’s SO not the vibe.

I have a frequency-first approach in everything that I do, from curating my own personal brand (hey, check out Backstage Pass for the tea on that) to my creative work as a photographer.

Because I know first hand that when your business isn’t having the impact you desire it to have, you’re not holding yourself in your full power.

And I get it, us women were not raised to take up space and be big, bold, and self-possessed.

It used to be outright dangerous, and now it gets you branded a bitch and dislikable. It takes a lot of courage to move from your metaphorical BDE.

But it’s easier when you are surrounded by people who can hold space for you to be your sexiest, boldest, most audacious and outrageous self.
Which is the golden thread of all the work that I do.

And if you’re reading this page, you’re looking for me to do it as your brand photographer.

Brand Strategy
Rooted in Energetics

You can’t book just a photoshoot with me unless I know you have an aligned brand for me to work with.

If someone else is willing to email back and forth to figure out what the fuck you want from your photoshoot, cool, but sorry, but that’s not me.

I’m in business because work is the 8th type of rest for a Capricorn, but business is not my dom.

I don’t swing that way, not even with who dubbed Christian Gray in Japan (iykyk).

All bookings come with a brand strategy session because I don't like to waste our time and your money.

You can’t book only the photoshoot with me unless I know you have an aligned brand for me to work with and come knowing what you want and why you want it from me.

I’m in business because work is the 8th type of rest for a Capricorn, but business is not my dom. I don’t swing that way, not even with who dubbed Christian Gray in Japan (iykyk).

And neither should you.

Your business being your dom I mean. If you like to be dominated in the bedroom more power to you.

It’s a no-brainer to have a business that’s built around you so you can have more time and energy for that.

Your business being your dom, I mean. If you like to be dominated in the bedroom more power to you. It’s a no-brainer to have a business that’s built around you so you can have more time and energy for that. Or whatever else brings you pleasure in life ;)

Alignment Coaching
meets Photography

Alignment Coaching meets Photography

I’m an alignment coach as well as a photographer because I’ve seen enough people book boudoir photoshoots in order to learn to love their bodies, only to have a meltdown at all stages of the process.

The middle aged mother who is panicking that she doesn’t have any lacey lingerie that fits her anymore because she hasn’t had special sexy times in the last 15 years.

The young woman who couldn’t even step on set because she was too self-conscious about her tummy rolls when she wished she had abs like a fitness model.

The woman in her late 30s who wanted realistic nudes that aren’t retouched or with a soft light but then hated all of them for showing every little detail of her skin.

The new politically correct name for the genre is empowerment photography and I call bullshit on that. Because it sells you the idea that taking photos of yourself will empower you.

But, sorry to burst your bubble, it won’t.

Even if you keep your clothes on (depending on your brand you might not), photography is someone seeing the truth of who you are in a deep, intimate way, and taking a camera to shove in your face with them to boot.

I can only represent what I see. It’s on you to step into your power and show up embodying your vision so that whomever sees the photos can feel your frequency and say “Fuck yes” to whatever you’re selling. Even if it’s just you looking at how hot you are.

It’s a co-creation. I can refine and prettify (and love it) but you’ve got to give me something I can work with that is not awkward tense smiles like that old man’s meme. That's why we plan the photoshoot together, around you.

Creating Content
That Connects

I will repeat it until the cows come home: personal branding photography is visual brand storytelling. It’s deeply imbued in marketing and sales psychology.

I saw the people complain online that brand photography was a waste of money because they spent thousands every month only to make no sales and recoup the investment, but their photoshoots had no strategy behind it because too many people think of brand photography as a niche buzzword to make their classic portraiture sound more appealing (it isn’t).

And I’m a bit of a trailblazer, so I took notes. I pinned down the ways in which the photography industry isn’t serving you. And I built the way I work around it.

And because my goal is to see women in business thrive, I don’t do cookie cutter packages. I want to get to know you, your business, and give you options targeted at your specific goals.

Getting Intimate with Your Brand

I consider myself primarily a boudoir photographer not just because I’d happily take risqué brands for clients, but because of the approach to what you see that is intrinsic to boudoir.

Boudoir is about sensuality. It’s not just about being sexy. It’s about intimacy and creating a felt experience.

The most interesting thing about you is you

Actors know this already: even the style of headshot they use tells agents and casting directors the kind of roles they are after.

There are many subtleties to creating images that communicate the famous thousands of words of the aphorism.

I spent my teens in theatre troupes, going deep in acting theory and how to direct. The way you move and the expressions you make are a key part of a character, and a key part of the character “your brand”.

That’s where alignment in branding comes into play.

The biggest complaint I had from people unhappy with their previous photographer is that they weren’t told how to pose, or how to move so that the camera could take flattering shots from a stage.

It's my philosophy that it should not be on you to know how to give me what I want.

The way you move and the expressions you make are a key part of a character, and a key part of the character “your brand”.

That’s where alignment in branding comes into play.

The biggest complaint I had from people unhappy with their previous photographer is that they weren’t told how to pose, or how to move so that the camera could take flattering shots from a stage.

It's my philosophy that it should not be on you to know how to give me what I want.

Everyone can press a button, but great photography is about the stories you can tell in every detail.

Eroticism blooms from the tension between excitation and inhibition and manifests in the things we say and do,
by how we act, and by how we

think

Esther perel

work with me

Brand Photography
like you've never seen it before

Brand Photography like you've never seen it before

I don't care who you are, what you do, or even if you are a woman
(at birth or otherwise). I care that we are an energetic match.

If you are:

Ready to shine brighter than Sirius, and I mean really ready.
Willing to go deep and set the ego aside ready.
"I survived Eclipses in my 1st House nothing can hurt me" ready

Looking for the right photographer to bring to life a vision that not many people actually get because they can't see beyond their preconception of what personal branding looks like

Willing to invest in order to get what what you want. I work with your budget on proposal, starting at £700 for up to 2h and all the viable photos taken in that time. And I do payment plans

Happy to travel to see me or fly me over to see you because you want the bragging rights that you have photos I took when my work is hanging in the V&A

FIRST THIS

Submit your application so I can get to know you and your brand.
Feel free to shoot me any questions beforehand if you have any
Contact Me

THEN THIS

I'll work my magic on the info I have and send over a proposal we can discuss and agree on. Then it's time for the boring but necessary admin like payment plans etc