Fine Art Portraiture
Portraits made to live with you.
SAN DIEGO’S PREMIER PORTRAIT STUDIO
Michelle Hayes Studio is a modern return to the classic portrait studio. A place where photographs are created intentionally, printed beautifully and made to become a part of your home.
Today, we take more photographs than any generation before us, yet so many of them disappear into phones, hard drives and camera rolls.
Technology will keep changing, but there is till something extraoridary about walking past a portrait of someone you love every single day.
You really knew the best poses and angles as well as getting the best lighting and using the right props and backgrounds. the process was way easier than I expected!
~ Stephanie
About Michelle
I grew up in a home filled with photographs.
Family photographs were beautifully framed on the walls and albums lived on shelves. I had my own photo album as a child, as did each of my brothers, that I could hold in my hands and look through whenever I wanted. And I did this often! Those photographs quietly told me something: This is my family. This is where I come from. I am belong here.
I'm a portrait photographer based in my hometown of La Mesa, California. After years of living in cities like San Francisco and New York, I found my way home and today I photograph the people and relationships that make a life meaningful.
I've spent almost two decades photographing people, and my favorite part has always been the connection that happens on the other side of the camera. We laugh. We talk. We share stories. And somewhere along the way, we create something beautiful and honest together.
There is nothing quite like watching someone see a portrait of themselve, or someone they love, and realize, That's us.
That's what I want Michelle Hayes Studio to be about.
Creating beautiful, timeless portraits that don't disappear into a camera roll, but become part of your home and your family's story, framed on the walls, held in your hands, and eventually passed on to someone you love.