Lol it should tell you something about this client here, that before I could start writing this post, I had to message her: "can I tell people about how you said you were a gender f*cking barbarian and asked me if I could hang with that?"
(She replied "ABSOLUTELY YES" by the way 🥰)
Here's the thing -- while I'm not the boudoir photographer for everyone (that's not my goal!), I am the ONLY boudoir photographer for some people! There are some people who are like, yeah, I actually couldn't do this boudoir thing with literally ANYone else -- and those are the exact clients I want to be reaching! Because we make some next level magic together, lemme tell ya!
Here's what this client had to say about that, why she felt like she needed to come work with me specifically:
"Actually working one-on-one with Kinzie in the studio was lots of fun, a little bit challenging in the BEST way, and most importantly, I felt absolutely safe and comfortable to experiment with things and be my complete, 100%, authentic self. And I can't emphasize enough how important that was, and WHY I answered one of the model calls. I am NOT your average human in any capacity. Everything about me is decidedly "off the menu" and not what you see every day. "Genderqueer barbarian gargoyle" is probably the most succinct way to put it, and finding a photographer who thought that was EXCITING was mind-blowing to me. I got to bring all of that style and energy to the session without having to stifle any of it."
I also asked this client why she wanted to do a boudoir session, and why she was interested in sharing her photos with folks out here, like you. I thought this response was REALLY special:
"I want people to know that there are different ways to do gender. There's more than one way to be a woman, or nonbinary (and yes, you can be a nonbinary woman!). You don't have to fit anyone's mold."
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💗🤎🖤
Y'all, this amazing human's exact version of gender, of nonbinary woman, of genderf*cking barbarian, of gargoyle, just explodes out of every single one of her pictures, don't you think? I am so proud of what we created together here in the Empowerment Studio, and I hope you will join me in loving on the photos, and the human in them.