I’ve spent years making portraits in whatever spaces I could transform for a few hours—corners of my apartment, borrowed rooms, temporary setups that had to be dismantled as soon as the session ended. It worked, but it always felt like I was borrowing time and space from other parts of my life. Now, I’m finally building something I’ve needed for a long time: a dedicated portrait studio designed specifically for artistic, stylized image-making.
This studio is a place for portraits with atmosphere. I want to make images shaped by color, texture, shadow, and a kind of emotional specificity that needs time and space to emerge. I’ve set it up to support the slower, more intentional way I like to work with people. The room is arranged around the idea that a portrait session is a conversation, not a transaction.
The backdrop wall supports seamless paper for clean, color-driven setups, and it also works beautifully on its own as a crisp white wall for more minimal portraits. I have studio lighting ready when I need control or drama, but the natural light that pours in each morning is honestly the star of the space. It shifts just enough to create subtle variations in tone, the kind of light you can build a whole portrait around. The room is still flexible enough for experimental setups, including layered lighting, architectural elements, and natural materials, whatever a particular image asks for. I want people to walk in and feel like they have stepped out of their everyday life and into something slightly cinematic, slightly strange, slightly elevated.
There is plenty of room to play. This space gives us the freedom to try bolder concepts together, to push stylization further, and to build portraits that feel like true extensions of who you are. Everything I have learned from printing, scanning, and studying images over the years shapes how I think about light here, which means each session can be tailored to you with a level of care and precision that was harder to achieve before. It is a portrait studio, yes, but it is also a laboratory, a place where we can experiment and make images that feel personal, elevated, and unlike anything you have had taken before.
What excites me most is the range this space allows. We can create intimate character studies, surreal or atmospheric setups, stylized environmental portraits, and images where you become part of an abstracted color field or architectural moment. This is the kind of work I have been wanting to make for a long time, and the studio finally gives us the room to explore it fully.
Right next to the shooting area is my attached editing suite, where we can review images together and shape them with the same precision and care I bring to my fine-art practice. From capture to final polish, everything happens in one connected space, giving your portraits a level of continuity and attention they simply could not have before.
I’ll share more as the space evolves. For now, it feels good to finally have a room built around portraits that are a little dreamlike, a little sculptural, and unmistakably mine.
studio first glances