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A concise portrait experience for people standing at the edge of something new.

Where your presence reads as clearly as it feels.

ENTRY
PORTRAIT

Designed to match

The way Your Energy enters a Room

You can feel it: something has crossed into new territory. Maybe it happened quietly. Maybe it has been building for years. But there is a version of you standing here right now that didn’t exist before.

A shift in self-concept. A different way of carrying yourself. An earned point of view. These aren’t things you want flattened into an AI render or lost in a headshot cattle call.

Entry Portrait is a focused studio experience, with enough space to get still, and enough direction to get true.

You walk away with a portrait that marks the  moment, and finally matches the way your energy enters a room.

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entry portrait fills the space

Where The traditional headshot once was

An image might be head-and-shoulders. It might be full-length. Looking directly into the lens. Or somewhere beyond it. The framing follows the moment.


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Three-quarter portrait of a radiant yoga studio founder with hands gently clasped, creating an organic, relaxed, and authentic professional headshot near Annapolis, MD

An image might be head-and-shoulders. It might be full-length. Looking directly into the lens. Or somewhere beyond it. The framing follows the moment.

Where The traditional headshot once was

entry portrait fills the space

now accepting appointments

Entry Portrait is intentionally offered only during select booking windows throughout the year. This considered rhythm ensures each experience receives the time, attention, and creative focus it deserves.

Appointments are now available for August and September. The next booking window will open in 2027.

August & September 2026
Booking Window

Creative directors Kimmie Dobbs Chan and Enoch Chan standing together in coordinated professional attire, holding hands and leaning back gracefully in a cinematic branding portrait

Together they’ve spent years creating images that hold private self-recognition and public visibility within one coherent visual language.

Enoch, Director of Production at The Washington Ballet, is also a Cinematographer and Lighting Director trained across 25 years of television broadcast and recognized by One Eyeland among the top three fashion photographers in the world.

Kimmie is a choreographer who work has been commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center and the National Gallery of Art, and whose somatic training taught her to read the moment effort interrupts truth.

one holding the space. one holding the frame.

Most portrait sessions give you a photographer and a lens. Entry Portrait brings two directors into the room. It’s the reason the experience feels different from the moment you arrive.

Dual Directors

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The experience

Entry Portrait is a focused studio experience for executives, founders, artists, and creatives, or anyone on the threshold of something new.

Enough stillness to stop performing. Enough guidance to find what’s real. Designed as a way of seeing yourself clearly before asking the world to do the same.

Here's what unfolds:

Turning Presence Into A Point Of View

We begin with a welcome conversation to clarify what this season asks your images to hold.

VISION

Working within a single environment, we shape light and expression together. One outfit. One professional makeup look. One visual language. Enough room for something genuine to emerge without rushing towards it.

Immersion

We meet again to review the portraits together, selecting the images that best carry this moment forward. Each chosen portrait is professionally retouched and prepared to move with you into whatever comes next.

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See More Of What's Possible

Recognition comes in many forms.

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Q+A

Entry Portrait is for anyone standing at the edge of something new — a shift in role, identity, or self-concept that deserves to be witnessed clearly. You don’t need a title to belong here. You simply need a moment that deserves to be seen.

Both. See yourself and know: 'Yes, that's me. And that's how I want the world to meet me.' You'll walk away with portraits ready for wherever you're showing up next.

You don’t need to arrive feeling confident. You don’t need to know exactly how you want to look. You simply need to recognize that the way you’ve been representing yourself no longer feels like the whole story. Openness is the only pre-requisite. We’ll guide the rest.

The image that represents your life and work deserves more than efficiency. It deserves care. Every Entry Portrait begins with a preparation call, is guided through posing and expression, and concludes with a curation call to help you select the strongest frames.

Entry Portrait is an intentionally focused experience, designed to create one clear point of recognition.

If your vision asks for more looks, sets, and registers, see our Studio Immersion.

If you are drawn to deeper narrative world-building, dynamic character work and location scope, explore Editorial Immersion.

Q+A

who is entry portrait for?

Is this for personal portraiture or professional use?

how do i know i'm ready?

what makes this different?

what if I want something more?

Location

Our studio is located directly at the Odenton, Maryland railway stop of the Marc Train which runs between Washington, DC and Baltimore.

We welcome clients from across the DC metro region, Northern Virginia, Annapolis, and beyond.

Just minutes from BWI Airport and Amtrak, it’s easily accessible whether you’re traveling across town or across the country.

Serving the Washington, DC Metro Area & available Worldwide

Location

Our studio is located directly at the Odenton, Maryland railway stop of the Marc Train line that runs between Washington, DC and Baltimore.

We welcome clients from across the DC metro region, Northern Virginia, Annapolis, and beyond.

Just minutes from BWI Airport and Amtrak, it’s easily accessible whether you’re traveling across town or across the country.

Serving the Washington, DC Metro Area & available Worldwide

a portrait that arrives

The way your energy enters a room.

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What Brings You Here

We read every inquiry personally.

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