My own boudoir photography experience in Paris

My own boudoir photography in Paris

Ok, I’m going to be completely honest here. I never thought about having my own boudoir photography experience until I became a boudoir photographer myself. I didn’t even know it was a thing.

As I dived into the photography world and I started to know all this different genres of this fabulous form of art I discovered boudoir photography and that was it. It was an epiphany for me and suddenly everything made a lot of sense.

This revelation made sense after 2 different beliefs I’ve had all my life combined in what boudoir photography is for me.

Boudoir photography and Feminism

I’ve always been very sensitive with gender equality, women’s rights and all causes related to women in general.

Being raised with a feminist mother and father, where the roles where not played by gender but more like a team where my mom and my dad both worked, earned money, cooked, cleaned, took care of the children, did house and construction work, etc. It’s no surprise that both my brother and I are equally capable of doing work traditionally designated for girls or boys but also sensitive towards women’s inequality.

I want to clarify that I declare myself as a feminist in the understanding that I’m not the same as a man, nor do I wish to be. I embrace my femininity and my differences as I believe they are beautiful and complementary to the man’s abilities. I do however believe we have the same rights and we should fight to both get and preserve them.

That being said, I love how the female boudoir photography (well done… of course) is a tribute to the women’s body and her essence.

In a world where the fashion and beauty industry wants to make us feel inadequate it’s about time we embrace who we are in the present moment just as we are and realize once and for all that we are wonderful creatures capable of amazing things with immense power within our selves.

Boudoir photography and sexual freedom

It has never made any sense to me the sinful vision of sex. I just don’t get it and I hope I never will.

I don’t understand why we have to feel ashamed of something so basic to the human nature as sex. Having sexual desires is as natural as being hungry or sleepy, but we don’t hide every time we eat or sleep, do we?

As John Lennon used to say: “We live in a world where we hide to make love while violence is practiced in broad daylight”.

If we come into this wold as the result of that very act, why does it has to be shameful? If it’s capable of producing life, don’t you think that is powerful and beautiful? (I’m talking about sex with mutual consent, of course!)

Now, we as girls specially, need to be the perfect lady, never showing any kind of sexual desire because we won’t be respected and everyone will think we are (sorry for the word) “whores”.

As a result, we don’t have any kind of sexual education, we don’t explore or know our bodies and we live sexually unsatisfied lives, because we don’t know where our pleasure is, we don’t know how to get it and we don’t know how to ask for it.

When I learned about boudoir photography I realized this was a way expressing myself and saying to the world:

• it’s OK to feel sexy
• it’s OK to have desire
• it’s OK to have sexual impulses
• I should be loved and respected for it, not the other way around

My boudoir photography shoot in Paris