Rachel Laforge
Photographer and makeup artist, Montréal
Two crafts that answer the same question: how do you want to be seen? I photograph people in the studio, and I do the makeup — for a night, or for good, by teaching you to do it yourself.
Photography
Natural light, a quiet studio, and as long as it takes. Whether it's a boudoir session or a headshot for the company site, the work is the same: getting you comfortable enough to look like yourself.
Makeup
Fifteen years of faces, most of them under pressure — weddings, galas, stages, cameras. I'll do yours for the day, or spend an afternoon teaching you to do it in twenty minutes flat.
Selected work
A rolling selection, changed each season.
Nobody arrives feeling photogenic.
Almost everyone who books a session tells me the same thing in the first ten minutes: they don't photograph well, they never know what to do with their hands, they haven't liked a picture of themselves since 2014.
That's not a problem to fix with a better lens. It's a problem of pace. So sessions run long on purpose — there's tea, there's music you chose, and there is no hurry. The good frames tend to arrive after the point where you've forgotten the camera is there.
I booked it as a birthday present to myself and spent the first hour apologising for my body. By the end I was asking to see the screen. Marie-Ève, boudoir session
Start with a conversation
Tell me what you're thinking about and roughly when. I reply to everything within two days, and there's no obligation attached to asking.