Why Boston Boudoir Isn't Just “Sexy”

There you are lounging languidly in lacy lingerie, looking to be lasciviously leered at by your lover. There’s soft focus, smooth jazz plays in the background, a gentle breeze blows across your face and artfully tousles your hair while you lay in a bed surrounded by sumptuous sheets and bedding. That’s what boudoir photography is supposed to be, right? It’s just about the elevation of the sexy and the sensual, a feast for the eyes as an extra special gift.

But your boudoir session in New England is about more than being sexy, it’s about…

Loving Yourself: Real talk, most of the time giving the gift of boudoir to someone else is just an excuse to have your own supermodel experience, to immortalize a moment when you’re really feeling yourself and trap it in print or on screen. Boudoir is for an audience of one: you, anyone else seeing it is purely optional. You don’t need someone special or a special occasion to set up a session, wanting to celebrate yourself is enough.

Expressing Yourself: Your Providence boudoir session can be a way to explore another side of yourself or persona, it can be an excuse to get creative with makeup, outfits, and settings. Boudoir can be a way to show your personality, your complexity, not just your body. It’s about creating portraits of who you are in the moment: powerful, unashamed, and amazing.

Hyping Yourself Up: Sometimes small things can be revolutionary like standing there in front of a camera and saying “I deserve to be here and be celebrated.” If a picture is worth a thousand words then your boudoir session is a love letter to yourself celebrating how far you’ve come and what you’ve conquered to get there. The sexy outfits and sensual poses are just the vehicle that’s going to get you walking away feeling confident and telling that nagging voice in your head to fuck off.

There are as many different reasons to schedule your Providence boudoir sessions as there are people that schedule them and there’s never a wrong answer to the question: why? So often we’re asked to be ashamed or tamed, it’s enough to have a space where you can do what you would like and be who you would like, even if it’s just for an hour or two. I’s dressing up with an extra sense of daring.

Interested in expressing yourself through boudoir? Let’s talk about what you want to do!

Ryan Richardson is a boudoir and wedding photographer serving Boston and beyond with a studio in Pawtucket, RI just outside of Providence.