PHOTOPIA

Specialties

Authentic Portraits of families, children and babies.

Meet the Business Owner

elizabeth D.

Business Owner

clients often ask how i got into photography. my answer is always ‘it saved me in high school’ and i feel that’s really true. i spent hours out shooting, in the darkroom or poring over books of favorite photographers. i think i knew then the power of pictures but didn’t realize the continued significance that it would have in my life.

through college and graduate school, as i pursued my degrees in photography & art, i worked in galleries and as a photographic educator in arts institutions, schools and community organizations.

i spent many hours teaching young children, high school kids, seniors, even training teachers, all with the same goal in mind — visual literacy — creating & understanding meaning through the power of images.

in 2000, i discovered my «niche» in an unexpected place — while pregnant with my first child in L.A., i started photographing other pregnant women I met in pre-​natal yoga classes. later on i photographed them again with their babies and a business was born,