Lisa Klare
Honoring your inner truth through images
Although I have never met a face I didn’t love, I am especially endeared to women during this pivotal time in history. We are redefining who we are, both collectively and individually, and it is often challenging to clearly see ourselves.
Thus, I happily serve as a mirror, reflecting back in portraiture the beauty, strength, complexity and conviction behind the face you show the world. Whether you are entering junior high or running a corporation, I see you in your present-day truth as well as in the embodiment of the woman you are becoming.
I believe there is a uniqueness of spirit and beauty that resides within all of us. It’s my purpose to capture the inner truth, the ESSENCE of who you are. It makes your images real and honest and approachable. Best of all, it requires nothing of you except the willingness to show up, play for a while and be amazed at the results we create.
Capturing memorable portraits
I got my first camera, a Kodak Instamatic, when I was 12 years old. From that moment on, some part of me has always seen the world in images. Even on the days when I didn’t have a camera in my hands I still had visual freeze frames pictured in my head.
As an adult, I dabbled in photography while I worked in public relations. But it wasn’t until I was pregnant with my first child that photography began to take shape as a profession. That’s when my husband made a fairly large wager with me and lost! I took my unexpected windfall and promptly purchased my first set of studio lights.
Fast forward seven months. I was a new, severely sleep deprived mom, but I still managed to set up those studio lights so that I could photograph our chubby baby boy for our holiday photo. The next year my friends and neighbors started bringing their little ones to me to be photographed and a business was born. As the kids grew, so did the scope and age of the subjects with whom I worked.
Now, I get to spend my days in visual discovery of the truth that is often hiding, but never truly absent, in the people I’m honored to photograph.
