I began building my business at age 17, finding time for portrait sessions between tennis practice And babysitting jobs.

It has been over seven years since I started honing my craft, and after spending the last few years photographing an average of over 250 portrait sessions annually, I am so lucky to say that I have found what I am most passionate about so early in life.

Photography carried me through college at The University of Alabama, where I photograph hundreds of graduation portrait sessions each year, and was recently a graduate myself in December of 2019.

After graduating from UA, I entered the world of digital marketing at a firm in my hometown of Athens, Alabama. I worked in-office for roughly three months before the pandemic sent me home to work in my childhood-bedroom-turned-home-office. 

I rode out COVID from my childhood bedroom through October of 2020 before taking one of the biggest risks I've ever taken: moving to Birmingham and telling no one from the digital marketing firm that I was STILL employed by. YIKES. 

Finally, in May of 2021, I put in my resignation notice with the digital marketing agency (still based in Athens, by the way) and was given my past team's full support to pursue my dream job full-time.

Now, to be continuing and expanding what I love as my full-time career, I don't see how my passion for this business and craft could get any better-- yet it does, with every new client, couple, and family that I photograph.

hello there

I'm OLIVIa b.