Maybe we should go back a few steps and ask
what is boudoir photography?
When I think of boudoir, I think of boobs and bum shots, stockings and suspenders.
I will hold my hands up and say that when I started playing with the idea of red shoe I did try these kind of shots….but they never sat well with me..
They didn’t feel right
I wanted to photograph woman, but there was not anything out there that inspired me…
Why does a woman have to wear really uncomfortable underwear and put her legs in the air to be called sexy? Is that what sexy is…?
I didn’t think so!
I think every woman is beautiful….just as she is. I think being sexy/beautiful is you just being you…just as you are right now.
Every single woman I have met will hate something about herself
Too old
Too fat
Too skinny
Shows too much gum when she smiles
Her skin
Her face!
If I had a penny for every time I was told “oooo I would love to do a red shoe….but I am just not brave enough” I would be off the coast of Barbados sipping cocktails…
Because the mass idea on the market is that women should dress up and squeeze into stockings to feel stupid in the process and dare for a second that they could be beautiful? This will then make them sexy
Nah
Not going to happen..
Not on my watch….
So
This is not boudoir
This is about you embracing yourself for all your unique quirks
This is about you being comfortable and happy in your own skin
This is about you just as you are
This is you finally sticking the middle finger to that voice in your head that tells you every
Single
Bloody
Day
That you need to lose weight to be happy
That your stomach needs to be flatter
Your hair needs to be fuller
That you need to be kinder and more loving to everyone else
And do not complain about yourself
Nope….no one wants to hear how you are struggling
Just smile and make it easier for everyone else.
And all the while forgetting…
You are woman
You are more powerful and fearless then you will ever know
This is not boudoir….
I would never put you into that horrible box and tell you
“There you are….you did a boudoir shoot….now you are sexy…tra-dah”
No I am not going to do that to you…
I want to photograph you because I believe with all my heart…
That if you give a girl the right shoes she can conquer the world
Sarah xx