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Boudoir vs. Intimate Portraits: What’s the Difference?

When people — mostly women, but not always — search for a personal portrait experience, they land on the word boudoir. The images are familiar: lingerie, styled hotel rooms or studio, carefully staged light, sultry positioning. Boudoir photography is about creating a fantasy. It’s glamorous, playful, and often designed as a gift for someone else… or as “something you do for yourself.”

But what drives that impulse? Vanity, boredom, the fear of aging? A desire to feel desired, to be seen in your best light? All honest feelings — and boudoir is a perfectly good option. 
You are the client, my muse but that’s not the work I do.

I create art — from you. Seeing you as you are, or as you want to be seen: raw, honest, powerful, vulnerable, sensual… whatever lives inside.
Boudoir is performance. Intimate portraiture is presence.
Boudoir invites you to step into a role. Intimate portraiture invites you to step out of one. My approach is not about lingerie, posing tricks, or soft-focus lighting. It’s about you, as you are. The intimacy comes not from costumes or settings, but from honesty.
One of my clients said it perfectly: “Boudoir felt like pretending. This felt like being seen.”
In an intimate portrait, there is no mask, no polished version of you. There’s just space to reveal the side of yourself you don’t always show — strength, vulnerability, curiosity, quiet confidence. Sometimes laughter, sometimes stillness. Always real.

Why does this matter?
Because the images you take home are not just photographs. They are reminders that you don’t need a fantasy version of yourself to be beautiful. You don’t need perfect makeup or a styled bedroom set. You only need the courage to show up as you are.
That is where the art begins. That is where life begins.

Closing
So if you are considering boudoir, pause for a moment and think about what you really want from the experience. Is it glamour and fantasy — or is it honesty, presence, and being seen as you are?
Take some time to read through my site, look at the work, and ask questions. I welcome the conversation.
If this speaks to you, I’d be honored to create that space with you.
Thank you for reading.