Hi hello! Kyla here! I’m a freelance Denver boudoir photographer specializing in emotive boudoir portraiture for fiercely empowered women looking to embrace their inner badass!
The photography journey!
Photography was the first real passion I found in life that I could really call my own. It was something I picked up years ago when I was hiking fairly often. My mom had gotten me this silly little $60 point and shoot Kodak camera that I would take with me to photograph things like flowers and skies and the occasional bee. While I had no idea what I was doing it left me with a sense of purpose and creativity and I fed my soul with it.
I fed my soul with it. What a powerful thing. To feed your soul with something that requires skill and creativity and will challenge the heck out of you every single day. I have been feeding my soul with this beautiful thing that can stop time even if just for a moment for the last 8 years. I cannot imagine a single thing I’d love to do more.
I have been delving into an exploration of strength and vulnerability through raw & emotive portraiture over the last few years. I love to build conceptual stories based around a thought or emotion. I often use my own writing (musings within my journal) to find a moment of clarity within myself and my work.
My boudoir work explores the space between elegance and edge rounding out with soft vulnerability. I enjoy working with female identifying people who are excited to explore the fierce empowerment that boudoir brings. I am a huge supporter of body love and self care. I very much believe that boudoir is inclusive for ALL body shapes, sizes or anyone who is on a journey to fully embrace their badass self.
I proudly welcome trans women, genderqueer or non-binary people, and people who are female-identified. I am excited to meet you!
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A bit about me
First and foremost – I strive to create honest imagery that reflect who my image collaborators (my clients <3) are in a way that makes them create a memory and reflect on it. I picked up photography back in 2010 and have had a love affair ever since. I specialize in creating photographs of the real connection between people and their lives. Being a Denver Boudoir photographer allows me to find my clients in real moments rather than forced ones. I don’t believe in creating picture perfect moments because I believe connection in itself is perfect enough. I like to find the grit beneath because that’s usually were we are our true selves.
I’m an avid listener of podcasts & constant re-watcher of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I love a good YA fantasy fiction book. Poetry has gotten me through some of my biggest life experiences. I love a good cheese wonton. I think dried flowers are superior to fresh ones unless the fresh ones are from my garden. Gardening is my self love language. To be in a beautiful space that I work hard for that gives back to me is so rewarding. Our home is filled with plants and oddities and little trinkets of memories and love and old vintage boudoir images. When I’m not behind a camera you can usually find me adventuring with my dogs or working the day away at a local coffee shop. My partner and I have a Sunday morning movie adventure tradition. I love art museums, antique stores and if you give me an oddities shop to be in and I’ll be there for hours.
