Kaia Lola

Hey! I’m Kaia Lola, the owner and lead photographer at My Boudoir Atlanta.

If you had asked me when I was a little girl what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would ALWAYS say an artist. I didn’t think I would need it, but if you asked me my backup plan, I would have said I would consider working in the UN.

I’ve had a camera in my hand since elementary school. After stealing my grandmother’s Polaroid long enough, I was eventually gifted a super cheap digital camera which I used obsessively. By the time I was in high school, I worked a weekend job to buy myself a film camera and started developing film in our school’s lab. By senior year I knew that THIS was what I was meant to do.

In college I focused on avante garde high fashion, but eventually began a series of surrealist conceptual art called Purging of the Past which took 3yrs for me to complete. It ripped the bandaid off struggles I had with my experiences with domestic violence, my father’s alcoholism, over a decade of depression which led to going from a dramatically skinny frame to over 200lbs. This was the start of my healing journey.

A move to Atlanta birthed the passion project, My Boudoir Atlanta, where the studio brings women of all shapes, sizes and colors through the doors to experience a day celebrating their beauty EXACTLY as they are now.