I trained as a ballet dancer for seventeen years. You might think that would make me obsessed with perfection, with precise lines, exact placement, everything controlled and correct.
It taught me the opposite.
Here’s the thing about ballet: angle is everything. The same movement looks completely different depending on where you’re watching from. After seventeen years of understanding that, I became obsessed with sightlines, with finding the exact position that makes a body look its most natural and beautiful. Move to the wrong angle and something gets lost. Find the right one and suddenly everything lands.
That’s what I bring to every couple session.
I’m not looking for posed perfection. But I do know, from years of training my eye, exactly how to frame two people so that whatever happens between them, whatever spontaneous moment unfolds, it’s going to look incredible. I know which angle makes your connection visible. I know how to position you so that even the unplanned moments land beautifully.
I also know what to look for. Wrinkles in fabric. Messy hair. The way someone’s hand lands somewhere without thinking. I’m not smoothing those things out. I’m photographing them. Those details are the whole point.
I still direct. I’ll suggest a position, ask you to move toward something, place your hands somewhere as a starting point. But I always leave room for what happens next. The direction is just the container. What I’m actually waiting for is what spills out of it.
The couples I work with aren’t comfortable in front of a camera at the start. Most people aren’t. But even when someone is nervous, even when they feel stiff and self-conscious, I can still make beautiful photos. Because I know how to work with what’s there. I’m not waiting for you to relax perfectly before I start shooting.
That said, there does tend to be a moment. Sometimes ten minutes in, sometimes thirty or forty. Where you forget I’m there and just start being with each other. That’s when the session shifts into something else entirely.
If you’ve ever felt awkward in photos and assumed it was something about you, it almost certainly wasn’t. When someone feels uncomfortable in front of a camera, that’s almost always about the energy of the person behind it. My job is to make you feel seen, not watched. There’s a difference.
I offer intimate couple sessions in New York City and beyond. If you want to talk about what yours could look like, fill out the contact form and let’s start there.
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