Award-Winning Boudoir Photographer Serving DC, Maryland, & Northern Virginia

Yes. Nicole Griffin Photography is an independent boudoir photography studio based in Baltimore, Maryland, serving Washington DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia. This studio is not affiliated with any other photography business operating under the same name in other states or regions. If you found me through a search for DC boudoir photography or a boudoir photographer in the DMV area, you're in the right place.

My studio is not a nationwide company that books you into a hotel room, gives you 45 minutes if you dress slow, and cycles through eight people in a day. I used to work for one of those. I know exactly how that goes. That's why I don't do it anymore.

Nicole Griffin Photography is a private, boutique boudoir studio in Baltimore, Maryland, serving women across Washington DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia. I do a consultation call with every client before they ever step in front of my camera because I'm asking you to come in, take your clothes off, and trust me completely. The least I can do is give you a little bit of me first. I've photographed hundreds of women across different ethnicities, ages, and sizes. I've been recognized by the Professional Photographers of America, the Association of International Boudoir Photographers, and The Coterie Noir.

Not even a little bit. My clients are a size 0 and a size 32 and everything in between. Different ethnicities, different ages, different backgrounds. I've literally shot from babies to zebras.

The women who come in most convinced this won't work for them are usually the ones who leave the most wrecked in the best way. The ones covering their mouth. The ones who start crying. The ones saying "I've never seen myself like that."

If you're sitting there thinking "sure, it works for other women"; that's exactly who I built this for. You are not the exception. I've heard that before. More than once. And I've been right every single time.

Girl, no. That's literally my job. I'm not going to walk you into a studio and say "okay, do something sexy, good luck." I direct every single pose, every expression, every angle. You will never be standing there wondering what to do with your hands.

Even I still get nervous at my own sessions with other photographers. I still think "oh god, how naked do you want me to be" and "I've got a roll here, I'm not sure I want to show that." The nervousness is normal. It doesn't mean you're not ready. We work through it together and usually by 30 minutes in I can physically see it lift. The shoulders go back. The head comes up. That's the part I show up for every time.

Only if you say so. Anybody I've ever put on my Instagram or Facebook I got their permission first. If you don't give me permission, nobody else knows. Not your family, not your coworkers, not your partner if you don't want them to.

If you want to keep this completely to yourself, keep it completely to yourself. Some of my clients do a full release. Some do anonymous only. Some don't share at all. Whatever you decide, that's what happens. It's your body, your experience, your images and that belongs entirely to you.

The thing I hear most often at the end of a reveal is "why did I wait so long?" Not once. Not twice. Over and over again. Women who came in saying "I'm not sure this will work for me" are the same ones who can't choose between images because they love them all. Women who said they'd just get a small package end up upgrading because they couldn't say no to themselves once they saw what was possible.

I can't promise you what you'll feel. But I've done this hundreds of times and I've never had someone leave saying it wasn't worth it. Not once. I say that not to sell you. I say it because it keeps being true, and I think you deserve to know that before you talk yourself out of it.