Portland, Maine Boudoir Photographer | Bee!

Portland, Maine Boudoir Photographer | It’s rare that I see this kind of energy, this level of self-love, this amount of radical vulnerability in a photoshoot. It’s why these are some of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken, hands down. Bee describes themselves as “a 30-year-old criminal-defense-attorney-by-day-and-radical-fat-queer-burlesque-activist-most-other-times” and I just… can’t even handle how much I love that. Oh, they’re planning to run for US Senate in 2020, too. Bee wanted to do some photos that could be included in their CD liner notes — you should check out their music, by the way, because it’s fantastic. They wanted to do a sort of “mermaid finding their legs for the first time” theme on the beach… with a shit ton of glitter. We literally had a SHAKE CANISTER of glitter (and some hairspray, so it would stick) and we reapplied many times. There was glitter all over my body, in the sand, in the air… it was wild. But I think these photos speak for themselves, really — a mix of tender and fierce, ethereal and down-to-earth, honesty and fantasy.