Born and raised in France, at just 15 years old I moved to Belgium to pursue a career in photography. I earned a BFA and showcased my work in a multi-city exhibit from Paris to Brussels. Then at 21, I moved to New York City and found success in the entertainment industry, where my artistic approach led to a thriving career in portrait photography. Now Los Angeles is home, where I enjoy my work as a top industry photographer, working with actors, musicians, artists, and celebrity clients of all stripes.
Helping women empower themselves to feel safe, confident, and beautiful has always been one of my cherished gifts as an artist. My most rewarding experiences have been teaming up with various charitable foundations and social work organizations to rehabilitate survivors of breast cancer and domestic abuse, using my photography to collaborate with psychologists, women circles, and healers to help women see, embrace, and love themselves in ways that overcome trauma and insecurities.
I been working as headshots photographer since 2004 with top talent agencies in Los Angeles. Ma joie de vivre my gift to bring my talent an ease makes my headshot real and beautiful and of course with my knowledge of what is best to capture to make a headshot bring casting and booking. My approach is to make my talent comfortable and let them know they been taking care by a professional. I do help them first by picking the wardrobe by looks they will be cast as. Play with colors of the wardrobes, backgrounds, texture, and lights. The studio is a day light studio with extra lights to create mood for theatrical headshots or more crips for commercial shots. Headshots can make the talent feel on a spot. I do like to use improv scene to help them to get into the Caracter and capture real moment with real feelings. A headshot is not only a beautiful shot of yourself it needs to talk and tell a story. I do like my talent to feel free in they own skin. Makeup and hair are the next step. I do recommend it. It is the time for the talent to relax and been pampered and connect with me before the shoot. I do like to do the makeup and hair on my talents as possible I worked as a makeup artist in NYC for many years with big success in parallel of my photography.
Looking forward to having you at the studio.
’’Karine’’’
Presently, Karine shoots with the latest hi-tech digital equipment available but can still be found shooting with her faithful Contax.
