Susan Eckert - Body and Soul: Lucrative and Life-Changing Boudoir Photography

Body and Soul presents a unique and emotionally intelligent approach to building a sustainable boudoir photography business. The higher-level strategies within these pages will enable photographers to move beyond the task of simply making pretty pictures to greater goals, such as understanding the emotional journey of the boudoir process, building meaningful, long-term relationships with clients, and creating a referral engine to sustain the business. Susan Eckert combines her professional experience as an internationally published photographer with her advanced degree in Psychology to deconstruct the boudoir experience. Each chapter is complemented by interviews with her clients, and illustrates how photographers can partner with their clients throughout the boudoir process in the development of meaningful work.

Susan Eckert is an internationally published photographer, a career-long member of PPA, and a member of WPPI and AIBP. Prior to becoming a boudoir photographer, Susan earned a masters degree in Psychology from Columbia University.

This book is an absolute must-read not only for anyone shooting boudoir, but anyone who photographs women in any capacity. Susan has proven through her years of experience that she has mastered not only the technical aspects of boudoir photography but, more importantly, the emotional skills. This is a book that has a special place in my library.

Jennifer Rozenbaum, Boudoir Photographer, Educator, and Author of The Boudoir Photography Cookbook

Susan Eckerts Body and Soul is truly a work of art, in and of itself. Immediately hooking the reader with her clear mission of a deeper calling to boudoir photography, Eckerts background in psychology and creative talent radiate through the pages. Body and Soul is not just a how-to on boudoir photography; rather, it is a serendipitous layout of a deeper connection to ones work and to their clients. Fulfilling the creatives vision of purpose and experiencing financial success is shown to be possible in this thorough and sincere masterpiece.

Erin Zahradka, Founder, Association of International Boudoir Photography

Susans work transcends the usual genre types one may too quickly apply to her sensual and sublime imagery. Her reverence for the subject, the setting, and the photographic art makes her work enchanting, elegant, and provocative. For a photographer wanting to enter the boudoir marketplace, this book will become your business bible. You will be applying the knowledge and ideas contained here every single day. My suggestion... buy two copies!

Don Giannatti, Photographer and Author

Of all the photography genres, I think boudoir may have the loosest interpretation as to what defines it. Susan has done an amazing job of giving shooters of all levels a guide that will take them to a place where they will be able to define the genre of boudoir for themselves as artists.

Craig La Mere, Moz Studios

Perfectly unveiling the emotional world of boudoir, Susan has crafted a book that is as intimate as it is inspirational! This is the perfect resource for photographers who want to explore womens photography from the inside out. Susan generously shares her soulful approach to creating portrait transformations that are nothing short of life changing.

Megan DiPiero, Beauty Portrait Photographer

As a psychologist who works with patients of all ages and body types, I would say this book is a must-read for all boudoir photographers! Working with women while they are at their most vulnerable requires a special kind of sensitivity to issues surrounding body image, weight, or age. Susan Eckert has done an amazing job of describing these issues.

Dr. Laura Ellick, Clinical Psychologist, Speaker, and Author of Total Wellness for Mommies

With a razor-sharp mind and an artists heart, Susan provides us with a clinical understanding of the female psyche and its translation to visual imagery. Susans work, backed by over 10 years as an Ivy-league Organizational Psychologist, teaches us that impact is not something that can be bought or injected into ones images, but rather uncovered... In sharing this consideration, she enables us to uncover the hidden emotional impact in the work we do, through empathy and self-realization.

Cate Scaglione, International Award-Winning Boudoir Photographer, Brand Consultant, and Educator