As a professional photographer of 13 years, I have had the privilege of exploring the many avenues of this field and dedicated the first six years of my career to wedding photography. It took meeting a few lovely brides that wanted to surprise their partners with some intimate portraiture as a gift for their special day to ignite my passion for this empowering form of photography that we call boudoir. 

 

The natural "nail in the coffin” was seven years ago when I did my own boudoir shoot with a fellow photographer. I never thought that something so simple would change my world for the best and set the ball rolling to where we are today. 

 

Ladies, I am going to get a little personal here. My teens and twenties were filled with many self-love and body image struggles. Between our society telling us that thin is best and my community propelling that thought, I believed I wasn’t worthy enough to embrace and accept my body or even feel confident and sexy in my skin. And then I did a boudoir shoot….

 

It changed my world. 

 

The goal of the shoot was to capture my body and youth before I hit my wonderful thirties, forties and beyond. In addition, I wanted to understand the euphoric feeling that my bridal boudoir clients felt after seeing their images, and the the excitement, empowerment, and joy they expressed when they held their finished album. Having struggled with body dysmorphia for so long, I didn’t think I would ever feel that. And then it happened. A few days after my shoot ( a shoot I was highly nervous for and wanted to cancel a million times!), I received my digital gallery. Crying tears of joy would be an understatement - your girl SOBBED. I had never seen myself in that capacity, and I was obsessed. Through those images, I was able to see my beauty and my strength. Those little “flaws” that I thought were so horrible melted away instantly. That girl I was obsessively staring at in those pictures was confident and strong. 

 

After that day, I dedicated myself to making every woman feel the way I did in that moment. 

 

Fast forward to today, and I have revolved my whole career around making wonderful souls like yourself see how beautiful, sexy, and imperfectly perfect your body and being are. My motto is “Free Yourself,” it simply means let go of society's definition of beauty and just be you. We only have one life and one body; love it and show off every inch of it! 

 

Sabina xo