This is a big week for someone I deeply admire, Arlan Hamilton! She’s got a second book out this week and is currently on tour. I didn’t talk about it as much as I probably should have, but did you know that I was the photographer for her FIRST book cover? It is true!

I met Arlan for a few minutes at a conference she was speaking at in August 2019 and I took her headshot by a window in a very dark corner of the space before she went on stage. A month later she reached out to me to see if I wanted to do a photo of her for the book cover, hell yes I did!

I flew down to LA with my good friend Miki (who did an incredible job on the lighting) and we had one day to prep and one day with Arlan in the studio. I was so nervous/excited about photographing her because a book cover was a big deal! I actually had a dream about shooting the photo she ended up using the cover, how cool is that?!

I wanted to use this blog post to congratulate Arlan, but also to toot my own horn because this shoot was so much fun and I hope to manifest more of them in the coming years. Arlan is an incredible person doing amazing things, so follow them on all the platforms!

Arlan on Instagram

Arlan on LinkedIn

Arlan’s Company - Backstage Capital

One of my favorite things about this shoot with Arlan was seeing all of the ways the photos I took were used and I threw in some awesome BTS photos because we weren’t taking much video back in the pre-Covid days, ha. Her wife was at the shoot too and after we finished the official portraits, I was able to take some fun ones of them.

Enjoy!