Danielle: After Dark

By evening the dresses are gone. Danielle closes the session in a sheer black lace bodysuit and a pair of strappy heels, the gray backdrop pulled down across the floor, the light left honest and flat. It’s boudoir without the soft-focus apology — standing, then low to the ground, a ponytail she keeps tugging loose, all confidence and no pretense. Studio, after dark, 2012. No airbrushing, no apologies, no boring.