Curiosity
I always ask one more question and take one more frame. That's usually where the real picture was hiding.
01 / About
Leticia Andrade · Photographer & Artist
I see you
I picked up a camera at the age of 45 and everything before it finally made sense. Rio, fashion, motherhood, all of it.
Atlanta, Georgia / Rio at heart
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About Leticia
Leticia Andrade is an Atlanta portrait and personal branding photographer, and the owner of Leticia Andrade Studio in Tyrone, Georgia, just south of Atlanta, a space built on artistry and connection.
Born and raised in Brazil, she moved to the United States in the early 90s. She earned her degree in art history at Syracuse University, spent a decade in fashion, then stepped away to raise her family before opening her own studio in 2016.
Community is where she feels most at home, and that same spirit carries into how she works with clients, always quick to connect them with the right resource, the right contact, or the right next step, well beyond the photo itself.
She approaches photography as a craft, not a formula. Every session starts with a real conversation, because the strongest images come from people who feel seen, not just photographed.
She’s a Portrait Masters Associate and the creator behind the Beauty is a Feeling™ campaign and The As You Are movement, with work featured in photography publications and guest appearances on business and self-care podcasts.
My mission, and my why
I photograph women because I've watched too many of us wait.
Almost every woman who books me arrives with some version of the same sentence. When I lose fifteen pounds. When my hair grows out. When work slows down. When I feel more like myself again. She's been waiting to be photographed the way you wait for permission, and while she waits, the years pass with no pictures of her in any of them. Her children will inherit a family album she isn't in.
So my mission is simple, and I take it seriously. I want women of every age and every walk of life to see themselves clearly and to like what they see. Not a filtered version. Not the version from ten years ago. The woman standing in my studio today, in the body she has today, with the life she's actually living.
It's why I built the studio the way I did, slow and private and calm, with no audience and no rush. It's why I direct every single frame, so nobody is ever left standing there wondering what to do with her hands. It's why I started Beauty is a Feeling, photographing and interviewing women over 40 about what beauty means to them once they stop taking the answer from a magazine.
And honestly, it's personal. I started over at 45. I know what it's like to look in a mirror and not find yourself in it, and I know what changed for me when someone finally showed me what they saw. I've been chasing that moment for other women ever since.
Beauty isn't a look you achieve. It's a feeling you recognize. My job is to build you a place to feel it, then hand you a photograph that proves it was real.
How it feels to work with me
Safe, seen, and celebrated.
My studio is a place to laugh, let go and be cared for. I serve you first, and the photographs follow.
Courage
Being seen asks something of you. My job is to make the room safe enough that you don't shrink when it does.
Empathy
I watch how you feel, not just how you look. When you feel safe your shoulders drop. That's when I start shooting.
Seen at.
Conversations, features and interviews about the work, the studio, and why any of it matters.
In the community
Curator & board member, The Nexus
I’m the curator of the art shows at The Nexus Community at Trilith Studios, a creative community in Fayette County, Georgia, and I serve on its board.
Bringing local artists, makers and neighbors into the same room is the same work I do in the studio: making space for people to be seen.
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I’m here to serve you, to make you feel safe, and to have fun doing it, until you walk out knowing you were worth it all along.Leticia Andrade · Portrait Photographer
As You Are.
The movement that grew out of all this. It celebrates you now, not after the weight loss, the promotion, or whoever's permission you're still quietly waiting for.
Come as you are. Leave seen.
Ten years behind the camera. More than 400 women. I'd love for you to be next.
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