Fine Art Boudoir Photographer
Durham, NC
K Hammock Photography
You have been looked at your whole life. Measured, corrected, asked to be smaller, contorted.
This is something else.
I photograph you on medium format film, slowly, in places where no one is watching. Film asks for presence. I can't overshoot you or fix you later with endless edits. I have to actually see you, and you have to actually be here. That is the whole thing.
Come barefoot into the tall grass at golden hour, wrapped in wind and fabric. Something shifts out there. You stop performing. You remember.
Allow my lens to tell your story that is undeniably and authentically yours.
Hey girl, I'm Kristen
Come with me to discover your divine femininity.
“Holy SHHH***TTTTT!!!!! KRISTEN MOTHER F*CKING HAMMOCK!!!!!!!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! These ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! *starts crying* I can’t wait to share how BREATH TAKING THESE ARE!!!!! I hope you look at these photos and realize just HOW AMAZING YOU ARE AT THIS!!! This is definitely your calling. OMG These are beautiful, Kristen. Just letting you know I’m ordering all of them! I hope these photos show women just how amazing they truly are and what fun their 30's are. Even my Mama is obsessed!”
~ Claire
"Kristen is a magical being ! I feel like there might be insecurities and fears around what to do and how to act going into a photoshoot, especially if you haven’t done it before, but she creates the safest energy that simply encourages you to be you and have fun! She is charismatic behind the camera and curates an exciting environment! This, let alone her talent in being able to capture an array of moods in different moments and settings in the most beautiful pictures is timeless. Could not recommend her and her photography more.
~ Dominique
"These are so good! I love them! You made it so easy to be comfortable. Seriously, you have such a gift! So obsessed, I don’t know which ones are my favorite, they’re all so good, holy crap. To what do I owe the pleasure of having you in my life!!!”
~Tori
"Kristen works magic with her camera! Kristen's easy-going manner, ability to find beauty everywhere, and genuine love of her art make working with her easy. She gives some guidance but mostly let's you lead the way in how you'd like your photoshoot to go. I'm never happy with posed photos; my smiles are always forced and look fake. I'm never disappointed and will keep coming back to Kristen year after year! 10/10!!!"
~ Lindsay
"If I could give 10 stars I would! Kristen is so amazing at her craft and goes above and beyond to make you feel comfortable and at home during your shoot. Be prepared to be blown away at your final product! Couldn’t recommend more!”
~Jenny
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For Luxe Sessions, yes. Professional hair and makeup is included, and it is its own slow pleasure, someone's hands in your hair while the morning opens up. For Priestess and Goddess Sessions it can be added on, and we'll talk it through when we plan your day.
Do you do hair and makeup?
Whatever you can breathe in. Silk if silk is who you are that day. A linen sheet. Your grandmother's slip. Nothing. Before we shoot I'll send you a wardrobe guide and we'll build it together, so you arrive already knowing. You will never stand in your closet the night before, panicking. I won't let that happen.
What will I wear?
Somewhere quiet. Tall grass, river light, a stretch of coast at the hour when everything goes gold. I know these places by heart, and I choose them for their emptiness. I photograph women across Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Cary, and Hillsborough, and I travel when the vision calls for a landscape we don't have here. Luxe Sessions live indoors, in rooms I select for the way afternoon comes through the window.
where does this happen?
Long enough that you forget to check. An hour for a Priestess Session, which is enough when the intention is singular. Two to three hours for a Goddess, because radiance takes its time. Luxe is open ended and usually runs three to five hours, hair and makeup folded into the day so nothing feels rushed. There is no clock in the woods. There is light doing what light does, and film asking us both to slow down, and somewhere in the middle you stop holding your stomach in and I get the frame I came for.
How long will we have together?
frequently asked questions
Neither had almost every woman on this website. The nervousness you're feeling right now is not a warning. It's the sound of something in you leaning toward the edge of what you thought you were allowed. I've been a birth doula and a labor and delivery nurse, and I'm a trauma informed practitioner. I know how to hold a room while someone does a hard, holy thing. I guide you the whole way. Nothing happens that you didn't choose.
I've never done anything like this!
The Priestess Session begins at $1,250. The Goddess Session at $2,500. Luxe at $3,750. Every one of them includes a private gallery, a cinematic slideshow of your day, and access to heirloom albums and wall art made to outlive us both. I'm telling you this here, plainly, because I don't want you spending three days wondering and then talking yourself out of writing to me.
What does this cost?
Sooner than feels reasonable. I take three to four sessions a month because film and attention don't scale, and the golden months in North Carolina fill first. If you're reading this in August and thinking about November, you are right on time.
When should I reach out?
Now, more than anything, I am passionate about photographing you, as you are. I love hearing what your goals are for your session and what makes you, you. I want everyone I work with to walk away with a sense of being seen in the full spectrum of their light. I aspire to make that magic with you which you deserve.
Meet Kristen
my love!
Photography has been my medium for communicating my thoughts and ideas about the world for almost twenty years. Most of my work has focused on documentary shooting, trying to capture ephemeral emotions as they develop. Being a quiet observer of the world around me is my super power.
I've been and done a lot in my life - from social worker, HOA manager (never again!), birth doula, and then labor & delivery nurse (still at it!), and stripping in Las Vegas (talk about a wild ride). I've tried a TON, failed a lot, learned so many things about myself and womanhood and life! But all of these crazy adventures have brought me here, to you now. As a trauma informed practitioner and girl who's been through it myself, I can help you blossom in the knowledge that you are safe, heard, and in control always.
