Guided Studio Session
A private boudoir session in Studio 2 with full pose direction from our all-female creative team. No experience needed.
Studio 2 — A Boudoir Project, Vol. I
SKIN.
The body as art.
Every age, every body. Fully guided, all-female studio in Vienna, VA. No experience needed — applying is free.
I. Manifesto
We do not photograph bodies. We photograph the evidence of a life lived inside one.
SKIN is a long-form editorial boudoir project shot exclusively in black and white. We leave the stories of a life lived — the stretch marks, the scars, the lines — and each image is tastefully finished by our finishing team. The body is the document; the camera is the witness.
Each sitting is a private collaboration with our all-female creative team — a guided session of light, breath, and trust. The finished frames will be displayed as a digital exhibition. With enough participants, they will be printed as a hardbound book.
II. The Exhibit
A digital gallery. A printed volume. A permanent record.
Selected frames from every session will be curated into an online exhibition — a continuously growing gallery shared with our audience and the press. If we reach the threshold of participants, the series will be printed as a hardbound book: SKIN — Volume I.
01
Sit
A private session in Studio 2 with a single key light, guided pose direction, and an all-female team. We will talk; the camera will listen.
02
Curate
A virtual ordering appointment for your frames, hand-toned for the series. You see them first and decide what may be shared.
03
Exhibit
Your selected portrait joins the digital gallery — and, if we reach the threshold, the printed book.
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A condition of the project
"We must be able to share your portrait."
SKIN exists to be seen. Participation requires a signed model release allowing your selected frames to be exhibited online, in press, and — should the series reach print — in the book. Anonymity options are available and welcomed: masks, silhouettes, cropped fragments, and face-obscured compositions.
III. The Experience
What every SKIN sitter receives.
Artful Finishing
Every released frame is hand-finished by our team in the black-and-white editorial language of the series — skin honored, never erased.
Studio Wardrobe Access
Access to our curated wardrobe of intimates, robes, and editorial pieces — or bring your own.
Virtual Ordering Appointment
A private appointment to view your frames and decide which images may be considered for the exhibit.
Exhibit & Book Consideration
Frames you approve for release are considered by creative director Melody Yazdani for the digital exhibit and, should we reach print, the SKIN book. Consideration only — never a guarantee.
Artist Signed Print
A 5×7 artist-selected, signed print from your sitting — yours to keep as a memento of the project.
Editorial hair and makeup is not included in any sitting; it is available as an optional add-on at Signature level for an additional fee, on weekend dates only and subject to artist availability. Digital images and additional printed portraits are not included — they are available for purchase separately after your virtual ordering appointment, with your artwork credit applied.
Why us
This is our siren song.
We have photographed thousands of women. A decade of work, an internationally recognized portrait house, and a private studio built for one purpose: to document the beauty of the female form — the skin and the bodies we walk through life in.
SKIN is an ode. A love story toward the human body. Someday we will be eighty, and we will be grateful for the body we have now — and maybe, at eighty, still grateful for the body we have then. This series exists so that gratitude has a photograph.
- Thousands
- of women photographed
- 10+ years
- award-winning portrait house
- All-female
- private, locked studio
Fully guided posing, so you never have to know what to do with your hands. Complete control over what is shared. Nothing leaves this studio that you have not approved.
IV. Casting
SKIN is cast by application.
Everyone begins with an application — there is no consultation to book first. Tell us about yourself and the story you want held. If you're selected, we'll invite you to a complimentary consultation and send a private link with the sitting options and an open calendar. A signed model release is required at every level so your approved frames can enter the exhibit — and, at threshold, the book.
V. The Process
From first conversation to the gallery wall.
- 01Apply
Everyone starts here. A short application about you and the story you want held.
- 02Selection
Our creative director reviews applications and invites the cast for this volume.
- 03Consult
If selected, a complimentary call to design your sitting and choose your tier.
- 04Sit
A guided private session with our all-female team — full posing direction.
- 05View
A virtual ordering appointment. You decide which frames you're comfortable sharing.
- 06Exhibit
Approved frames are curated into the digital gallery — and, at threshold, the book.
VI. The Studio
Studio 2 is the boudoir house of Melody Yazdani Studios.
Located on historic Mill Street NE in Vienna, Virginia, Studio 2 is a private, intimate space dedicated entirely to boudoir and the body. It is the dedicated boudoir brand of Melody Yazdani Studios — an award-winning, internationally recognized portrait house with over a decade of work and thousands of subjects.
Our team is all-female. Our process is fully guided. Every released frame is artfully finished by our retouching team — the goal is never a different body, only the truest version of the one you arrived in. Our standard is that you leave the studio having seen yourself the way the camera sees you: without apology, without rush.
SKIN is our first formal exhibition project devoted to boudoir. We are honored you are here.
VIII. Selected Frames
A growing record. The body, as it is.
A continuing edit of frames from the SKIN sittings — anonymous fragments, full frames, every age and body. New work added with each session.
IX. Frequently Asked
Questions, considered.
Be seen, on the wall.
Start with the application. If you're selected, we'll follow with a complimentary consultation to talk about your story, your comfort, and the sitting that fits. Then we'll make something neither of us will forget.