Tamara Fox
Q What do you do?
“I specialize in 35mm photography of lingerie, women’s clothing, and cannabis brands, but I am versatile!”
My style playfully highlights feminine sensuality through warm tones and a vintage sensibility. Think Playboy magazines from the 70's!
Q What steps did you take to get to where you are now?
My attraction to art and photography began at a very young age. My mother, an artist, works for LACMA and filled my little wondrous mind with inspiration throughout my life. I had cameras in my hand since about the age of 6 and took photography classes throughout my school career. Throughout all of high school, my classes specialized in analog photography and I fell in love with shooting in film and developing my own work in the darkroom.
Now, as an adult, I've come into my style by exploring my love for capturing feminine beauty in a manner that is both delicate and empowered, while still fun and unique. I have worked with many lingerie and clothing brands to create unique content that captures this and with each shoot I find myself growing more and more by fine-tuning and adding new techniques to my process. Any artist knows that that process never ends! I am in a place where I am so proud of my work and so confident in my style and feel so honored that I get to call my passion my job.
Q How do you stand out in your field?
I shoot film and edit digitally which creates the perfect balance of the old and the new and results in a really unique visual style.
I have a strong vision for my shoots while incorporating the brands style to create a result that is unique but still authentic to the brand's identity.
My style is warm, playful, and sensual.
Q What are you working on right now?
I have been collaborating with lingerie brands to create social and website content as well as have been working directly with a modeling agency on creative content shoots.
Q What’s your style?
♡ PLAYFUL ♡ WARM ♡ FEMININE ♡ VINTAGE ♡ SEXY BUT NEVER TRASHY ♡ ETHEREAL ♡
Q Out of all your slashies, which one do you wish you could do more often?
Photography as well as my own boutique are what I wish I could focus on more! Outside of this, I work for a luxury hotel in Los Angeles doing Marketing & PR, which I also love, but my passions are art and fashion.
Q What is frustrating you right now?
Not having enough time to do everything I want to do! I always have a million and one ideas and I wish I could execute them all.
Q If you could hire someone for $20/hour, what would you have them do to make your day easier?
My accounting! Oh, and its always helpful to have an on set assistant to help with little things like holding the reflectors, loading film between rolls, etc.
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Q What do you wish you could have told yourself, when, and why?
For a long time I saw photography as just a hobby that I was obsessed with... I wish I had told myself earlier that
I could make it my career if I just put the pedal to the metal
and market myself as a photographer!
Q If you could talk to an expert to gain more insight on something, what would it be about?
I would love to talk to other analog photographers in the industry! There is so much to learn from each artist and the way they plan and conduct their shoots, as well as use tools like lighting, editing, and otherwise to contribute to their vision.
There's no right or wrong way to do things in art, each artist has a unique perspective any creative can learn something from one another.
Q What kind of opportunities/projects are you looking for?
Looking for brands as well as personal projects or otherwise to create photography for! I am versatile and am always so happy to take on new projects.
Q Describe your ideal job/client/collaboration.
I think the perfect collaboration is where both the client's and my vision are represented in the photographs. There's this crazy magic that happens when the client and I are building off of each others ideas....the results are amazing! We both are so passionate about the shoot and so happy with the results.
Q How should someone approach you about working together?
You may reach out to me by email or Instagram DM.
Say hi! Let's talk about your vision, your brand, or any jumping off point you see fit. I'm easy :)
Q Who is a creative you admire?
Brooke Olimpieri of Filthy Mouth Creative/Another Filthy Magazine! She has always been such an inspiration and been such an amazing supporter in getting my work shown to the masses.
Other inspirations of mine are Nadia Lee Cohen, Sam Dameshek, Perazna, and Emma Bracewell.
Q Oh! and… how do you stay creative?
Keep your mind open to inspiration
and learning forever and ever.
This member profile was originally published in February 2020, Updated July 2021.