About Me
Luca Pearl Khosrova
HUDSON VALLEY PHOTOGRAPHER
My approach to photography started long before I had a camera. As a kid, I used to draw portraits from fashion magazines, trying to recreate what felt like rich, storied characters. If I wasn’t drawing, I was imitating — with scarves stolen from my mom’s closet, I’d fashion them into elaborate outfits, paint my face, and strike various poses in front of the full-length mirror. Eventually these ‘attitude-portraits’ would be captured on my family’s point-and-shoot — long before I knew who Cindy Sherman was.
When I was 18, my uncle gave me a film camera for graduation that I took with me to art school. I snapped photographs of my friends, my travels, shadows, pomegranates, anything with a shape and color that intrigued me. I spent hours in the darkroom, experimenting with various forms of printing and printmaking, finding different lives for my images.
Portraiture continued to be my first love. I became deeply committed to the connection a camera can create between photographer and subject. My first full-time photography job was in a hospital maternity ward, taking photos of newborn babies, just one or two days old. There, my portraits revealed something new: that I could bear witness through my camera, I could eternalize a fleeting moment, I could create gifts.
For more than a decade I’ve had a camera by my side, using it to capture numerous weddings, faces, bodies, products, spaces, fine art. I’ve worked in studios, mansions, warehouses, canyons, salt flats, bedrooms, fields, and hotels. My favorite part, whether it’s a product or a portrait, is collaborating with my client and combining our visions into a truly one-of-a-kind visual story.
