What Clients Say, and Where the Work Has Been Recognised

“I was exceptionally nervous to start, but the make up lady and Peter were absolutely wonderful. Such amazing people and put me right at ease. I felt like I had known them for years and was fully comfortable in front of the camera. I have just received my edits and I am BLOWN away.”

Tanya B.
Google Review

“On meeting Peter I was instantly comfortable, he has such a chilled, laid back presence that you start to feel the same. By the time Peter was ready to start all of my nerves were gone and I was at ease. I felt comfortable and safe in all the sets and Peter goes at your own pace, you never feel any pressure. When I saw my photos for the first time I was speechless.”

Laikyn
Google Review

“What an amazing experience! The perfect amount of guidance from Peter, giggles (need those), fun and amazing results. I left the shoot actually feeling sexy, feminine and confident. I am so proud of my pictures, so happy I got to capture that amazing moment in time. I will DEFINITELY shoot with Peter at Boudoir Fusion Photography again.”

Natalie S.
Google Review

“Husband who went along to wife’s boudoir photoshoot. Had a great time. Peter is really fun, instructive and respectful. We both felt comfortable and the photos came out fantastic. Very positive experience!”

Johnathan W.
Google Review

“I have been shooting with Peter for the last 15 years and I couldn’t sing his praises enough. Having worked with dozens of photographers, I can’t emphasise enough how incredibly comfortable Peter manages to make models feel at his shoots. He is meticulous in his direction and so patient with making sure you’re in the right pose and ensuring you’re looking your absolute best in every shot.”

Mmathabo N.
Facebook Recommendation

“From the moment I arrived at the studio, I felt welcomed and at ease. The attention to detail, from lighting to poses, highlighted my best features and made me feel beautiful. The final images exceeded my expectations!”

Jackie N.
Facebook Recommendation

My involvement with After Dark Artist grew out of my work in erotic photography and eventually led to an invitation to Boston in the USA, where I was invited as a key presenter and coach at their first ever Erotic Photography Retreat.

I was subsequently invited back to Boston for a second retreat, working alongside other photographers and sharing the techniques, lighting and approach I had developed through years of photographing boudoir and erotic work.

I also created a series of specialist photography training guides for After Dark Artist, covering lighting, posing and some of the more unusual practical challenges of photographing erotic and alternative genres. The guides were made available to photographers around the world and covered everything from nude and erotic lighting to some decidedly more specialised areas of fetish photography.

Being invited halfway across the world to teach something I had spent years learning behind my own camera was both a privilege and, if I am completely truthful, rather good fun.

For a number of years I was a member of the Association of International Boudoir Photographers, better known as AIBP, an international organisation bringing together boudoir photographers from around the world.

During that time, I spent several years as AIBP’s South African Ambassador, representing South Africa within an international community of photographers specialising in boudoir photography.

My photography also received a number of awards through AIBP’s weekly, monthly and annual competitions, with my work recognised alongside that of photographers from around the world. A selection of those award winning photographs and competition results are shown below.

Although I am no longer an active member or ambassador, my years with AIBP gave me the opportunity to have my work seen, judged and recognised internationally, and to represent South African boudoir photography on a much wider stage.

Awards are one form of recognition, but seeing my photography selected for publication has always been rather different.

Over the years, my work has appeared in photographic and alternative publications both in South Africa and internationally, including magazine covers, editorial features and educational articles.

Here are a few that have found their way into print.

One of those occasions was Kulture Magazine, where my photography was selected for both the cover and a feature in Issue 57.

There is something rather satisfying about seeing an image that began with an idea in the studio eventually staring back at you from the cover of a magazine. The feature included a selection of my work and gave that photography an audience well beyond my own website and studio.

It is one of several publications my work has appeared in over the years, but seeing one of my photographs on the cover is always rather nice.

My photography was featured in Moll Mag South Africa, with one of my images selected for the cover and others included in an editorial feature inside the magazine.

What I particularly enjoyed was seeing photographs created during a shoot take on an entirely different life once they were placed within an editorial layout. A photograph suddenly takes on a life beyond the original shoot.

There is still something rather satisfying about seeing photographs that began in the studio eventually finding their way into print, particularly when one of them ends up on the cover.

For several years I entered my photography on Pixoto, an international photography platform where images were placed into competition and judged against the work of photographers from around the world.

Between 2012 and 2016, my work regularly achieved strong results across boudoir, portrait and fine art photography, earning numerous awards and top placements.

In 2016, I was particularly pleased to be named Photographer of the Year in my class. Although I stopped actively competing after that, my photographs continued to be viewed and judged on the platform and, in 2018, I was again awarded Best Photographer of the Year in my class.

Photography competitions are rather subjective things, and I have never believed an award makes one photograph better than another. Still, having your work consistently recognised alongside photographers from around the world is rather nice, and I am certainly not going to pretend I didn’t enjoy winning them.

Alongside my teaching and training work with After Dark Artist, my photography was also regularly published in After Dark Artist Magazine, an international publication dedicated to erotic, fetish, kink and alternative photography.

My involvement went beyond simply supplying photographs. I also contributed articles and educational material for photographers, sharing some of the lighting techniques, practical experience and ideas I had developed through years of photographing boudoir and erotic work.

My photographs appeared across numerous editions of the magazine, both in editorial features and on several of its covers, giving my work an international audience within a rather specialised corner of the photographic world.

It was certainly not the most conventional photographic world, but creatively that was rather the point. It gave me the opportunity to explore photography well beyond traditional boudoir and, perhaps more importantly, to share some of what I had learnt with photographers around the world.

Awards, publications and recognition are lovely, but they have never been the reason I pick up a camera.

What has kept me photographing people for all these years is something much simpler. Every person who walks into my studio is different. Different personality, different body, different reason for being there and usually a slightly different collection of nerves as well.

My job is to work with the person standing in front of me, rather than trying to make them fit somebody else’s idea of what a boudoir photograph should look like.

Experience certainly helps. I know how to use light, posing and direction to create a photograph. But knowing when to put the camera down for a moment, have a laugh and allow someone to settle into the experience matters just as much.

Ultimately, I would far rather you leave my studio remembering how much you enjoyed the shoot than remembering how many awards I have won.