About
I’m Juliet Lofaro, a portrait photographer based in the Hudson Valley. My work is rooted in connection — in paying attention, creating ease, and finding the moments when people feel most like themselves in front of the camera.
I graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in photography. I began my career immersed in New York’s downtown art scene, photographing portraits, parties, and headshots for musicians and performers.
My working style was shaped on film sets, where efficiency matters. It’s where I learned how to quickly read people, build rapport, and connect in the moments that count.
My career spans from processing film and printing it myself to working within the ever-evolving digital landscape. While the tools have changed, the heart of the work has not.
Today, I’m based upstate. I am balancing motherhood with a continued devotion to portraiture for both professional and personal use. I’m a third-generation picture maker, and I spent my formative years in Woodstock surrounded by art, nature, and a way of seeing that made beauty feel tangible and close at hand.
Being back upstate means working with people from all walks of life, in a place that’s constantly changing. Portraiture gives me the chance to connect with so many different stories — and I bring the same care and attention to every person who steps in front of my camera.
This is how I think about portrait photography:
It’s the job of the portrait photographer
to identify which part of the subject’s psyche is most emotionally available and to connect to it.
A photograph is the document of that connection.
Some people, celebrities especially, carry their psyche on the outside; it’s their special magnetism and it makes them easy to connect with photographically.
Most of the rest of us, however, profit from working with a photographer who is especially adept at uncovering our own inherent magnetism.