Santa Monica Photographer Who Celebrates the Woman You Already Are
Capture life’s most meaningful moments with your best self in focus
Santa Monica is a city that understands intentional living. Early mornings on the beach path. Yoga studios tucked between cafés. A culture built around wellness, balance, and becoming the best version of yourself. You invest in your health, your peace, and your growth every day — but when was the last time you invested in the way you see yourself?
Ericka B. Photography is a Los Angeles fine art portrait studio serving women throughout Santa Monica and the Westside. Specializing in boudoir, modern motherhood, couples, and personal branding photography, every session is designed to feel both elevated and deeply personal. The goal is not simply to create beautiful images, but to reflect your confidence, presence, and individuality with honesty and artistry.
Just a short drive from Santa Monica Pier, the studio offers an experience that feels grounding, empowering, and transformative. Because sometimes the most powerful thing you can do for yourself is finally step into the frame.
Why Santa Monica Women Choose Ericka B. Photography
The women of Santa Monica understand intentional living. They invest in their wellness, their relationships, their growth, and the lives they are building for themselves.
But even the most self-aware women often forget to pause long enough to truly see themselves.
That is the heart of the experience at Ericka B. Photography. These sessions are not about perfection. They are about presence, confidence, and capturing the version of yourself that exists beneath the constant movement of everyday life. Women from Santa Monica, Venice, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, and across the Westside make the trip for an experience that feels just as meaningful as the images themselves.
Hair & Makeup Included
5-Star Rated Photographer
Hair & Makeup Included 5-Star Rated Photographer
Boudoir Photography
You already understand the importance of taking care of your body. A boudoir session with Ericka B. Photography takes that idea deeper — beyond workouts, routines, and wellness trends, into the way you see yourself and the relationship you have with your own reflection.
As a boudoir photographer serving the Santa Monica area, Ericka creates an experience designed to feel calm, grounded, and completely personal. Nothing about the session is performative. The softness, the strength, the stretch marks, the curves, the confidence you already carry — all of it deserves to be documented honestly. Professional hair and makeup are included, and every client is guided through posing with care so you never feel like you have to “know what to do” in front of the camera.
For the woman who spends so much of her life showing up for other people, a boudoir session becomes something increasingly rare: a moment that belongs entirely to her.
"I am so so so glad that I did this for myself, and I know that I will continue to be grateful for the rest of my life." — Ericka B. Photography Client
And while the photographs are beautiful, they are rarely the only thing clients take with them. Many women leave describing a shift in the way they speak to themselves, carry themselves, and allow themselves to be seen. That transformation is not incidental to the experience. It is the reason for it.
Modern Motherhood Portraits
Some seasons of motherhood pass in a blur. The tiny hands wrapped around your fingers. The familiar weight of a child leaning against you. The versions of yourself that exist quietly behind the routines, responsibilities, and constant movement of caring for others.
Modern motherhood sessions at Ericka B. Photography are designed to preserve those fleeting moments with elegance and emotional honesty. Whether you are documenting pregnancy, early motherhood, grown children, or a deeply personal version of motherhood that does not fit a traditional mold, the focus is always the same: connection.
The result is a collection of portraits that feel lived-in, intimate, and timeless without ever feeling overly posed or performative. Images that will one day become part of your family history — not only because of how they looked, but because of how this chapter felt.
Couples Photography
The strongest relationships are rarely built from big moments alone. More often, they are shaped by the small things like the private jokes, the familiar touch, the feeling of being fully at ease with another person.
Couples sessions at Ericka B. Photography is centered around capturing that sense of connection in a way that feels natural, cinematic, and deeply personal. Nothing stiff. Nothing overly curated. Just the chemistry, warmth, and dynamic that already exist between you.
Each session is guided with intention, creating space for genuine interaction rather than forced posing. Whether you are celebrating an engagement, an anniversary, a new season of life, or simply want to document your relationship as it exists right now, the result is imagery that feels effortless and unmistakably yours.
Personal Branding Photography
Santa Monica is filled with people building things — brands, businesses, ideas, and careers rooted in creativity and ambition. When your work depends on connection and visibility, the way you present yourself matters.
Personal branding sessions at Ericka B. Photography are designed for entrepreneurs, creatives, consultants, founders, and professionals who want imagery that feels elevated, polished, and genuinely reflective of who they are. This is more than a standard headshot session. It is a collaborative process focused on creating photographs that align with your presence, your industry, and the story your brand is telling.
From wardrobe guidance to styling and expression, every detail is approached with intention so the final images feel cohesive, modern, and unmistakably authentic.
"She curated the outfits and makeup so that everything flowed. Her focus was on ensuring that the images captured reflected the authentic me." — Stephanie M., Ericka B. Photography Client
Because your brand already speaks for you before you ever enter the room. Your imagery should do the same.
What to Expect: The Ericka B. Experience
From the first conversation to the final gallery, every part of the experience is designed to feel thoughtful, collaborative, and easy.
Before your session, Ericka B. Photography works closely with you to understand your vision, comfort level, and the feeling you want these images to hold. Guidance around wardrobe and styling helps remove the pressure of figuring everything out on your own, so you can arrive feeling prepared and confident.
On the day of your session, professional hair and makeup are fully taken care of. The studio environment is calm, welcoming, and intentionally unrushed. Throughout the shoot, Ericka guides you through posing and expression in a way that feels natural and intuitive, even if being in front of a camera does not come naturally to you.
Afterward, your images are carefully curated into a fine art portrait gallery designed to feel timeless rather than trend-driven. These are photographs created to be kept, revisited, and passed down — artwork that reflects not just how you looked in this moment, but who you were within it.
"What she brings out in you and how she makes you see yourself is something every woman needs to experience." — Janice M., Ericka B. Photography Client
Serving Manhattan Beach and the South Bay
Ericka B. Photography is located in the Los Angeles area and proudly serves women throughout Santa Monica and the surrounding Westside communities, including:
Santa Monica
Venice
Brentwood
Pacific Palisades
Mar Vista
Culver City
Marina del Rey
Malibu
If you are searching for a photographer in Santa Monica who combines fine art portraiture with a transformative, deeply personal experience, you are in the right place.
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