Hello and thank you for stopping by my blog! My name is Larissa Block and I am a photographer in Los Angeles. To give you a little background, I attended UC Santa Barbara and studied abroad my junior year of college. While living in Europe, I took my first photography class and was completely hooked. After graduating from UCSB, I immediately attended Brooks Institute of Photography from 2000-2003. From there, I moved to New York to be a photo assistant and learn the business of photography. In 2005, I started my photography career focusing on celebrity and musician portraits for magazine editorials. While struggling to make ends meet as I began my photographic journey in the working world, I started shooting families and babies and quickly realized that I had found my true passion.
Fast forward 14 years and I am happily married to an incredible man who loves that I have followed my creative passion. I am a mom of two happy and sweet children ages 6 & 8 who bring an incredible joy to my life. I love so much about being a photographer. I truly enjoy working with families over the years and getting to watch their children grow. I love that each day and every shoot is a new adventure and leads me in new directions creatively. I love when children show me their true colors and I get to document those moments forever. Sweet, silly, energetic, timid and everything in-between, this is the essence of childhood and exactly what I strive to capture. Since becoming a parent I have learned to appreciate the little things and capture a range of emotion. Time goes by really quickly with kids and I try to capture the essence of who they are and the love and energy they bring to the world and to their family.
I started this blog to give people more of an overall view of what can be captured in a session, rather than just viewing a single image on a website or social media. These are just a handful of selects from each session to showcase the range that was captured. My goal with every session is to capture variety- portraits and candid shots, different emotions and family dynamics. Please let me know if you have any questions or just want to say hello!
For more samples of my work, please visit my website:
Instagram: @beautiesandbabies
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