Selected Work — Aimeri Baddouh Photography

The Sun card from the Tarot of Life on marigold and blue paper

Mariah Oller Studio

Shooting the Tarot of Life deck

Hand-illustrated tarot deck · Mexico City

Mariah is a cell biologist turned tarot artist working out of Mexico City. Her hand-illustrated Tarot of Life deck funded on Kickstarter in a week, got named to the TODAY Show's beginner-deck list, ran in Oprah Daily and Bustle, and ended up in the Library of Congress's permanent collection. By the time the cards reached me they were already the most interesting thing in any room.

Which is the whole point of the shoot: when the artwork is that strong, the photography's job is to stay out of its way. Each card sits on saturated paper pulled from its own palette, lit flat and even so the illustration reads clean to the edges. No props, no styling — just the card, the color, and enough contrast to let the linework carry it.

Firebelly Farms

Hot sauce hero shots & flat-lays

Small-batch hot sauce · Charlotte, NC

Firebelly came to me before they had a clear visual identity. They needed clean shots of the bottles, but anything generic was going to read like every other small-batch hot sauce on the shelf.

The peppers ended up doing the work. Using their own ingredients as props meant the line had a visual signature built in from their own product, not borrowed from a stock playbook. The hero shot is still in use on their site years later. The flat-lay became their main background.

Silvia Jane

Earring shots for a seasonal release

Handmade jewelry · Charlotte, NC

Silvia Jane is a small Charlotte jewelry brand. The maker is active in advocacy for kids with special needs — I liked the ethos and the work is genuinely good. She reached out about a new seasonal drop: handmade pieces, mostly white and pale-toned, that needed product shots before launch.

The jewelry itself was understated enough that any complex setup would have buried it. So the approach went the other way: each piece sits as negative space inside a saturated paper backdrop. The color carries the frame; the jewelry stays quiet on top.