The Freedom Session
Confident, beautiful portraits celebrating independence, reinvention, and the exciting possibilities of your next chapter.
Divorce • Reinvention • Celebration
Your next chapter deserves a little drama.
Portraits, celebrations, and cinematic films for people embracing a fresh start.
This is not about bitterness.
It is about you.
Maybe you feel relieved. Maybe you feel heartbroken. Maybe you are excited, nervous, confident, uncertain... or all of those things at once.
The Divorce Photographer creates custom portrait experiences and event photography for people embracing change, reclaiming confidence, and celebrating a fresh start.
Meet Mika
I believe life's biggest transitions deserve to be celebrated.
As a photographer and filmmaker, I've spent years documenting milestones, transformations, and the moments that remind people of who they are and who they're becoming.
The Divorce Photographer was created for anyone stepping into a new chapter... whether that chapter feels exciting, bittersweet, empowering, or completely unexpected.
My goal is simple: to create an experience where you feel seen, celebrated, and maybe even a little glamorous.
Whether you're planning an intimate portrait session, a champagne-fueled celebration, or something wonderfully over the top, I'm here to help create photographs and films that honor this moment in your story.
Because every ending deserves a beautiful beginning.
Photographer • Filmmaker • Storyteller • Lover of celebrations and fresh starts
Signature Experiences
Choose your energy.
Whether your next chapter looks glamorous, adventurous, meaningful, outrageous, or quietly confident, there's an experience designed for you.
The Rich Auntie Session
Champagne, shopping bags, cash, confetti, and unapologetic main-character energy. Because sometimes the best revenge is living fabulously.
The Newly Single Boudoir Session
Elegant, personal, and empowering portraits created to celebrate your confidence, beauty, and the woman you've become.
The Next Chapter Dating Session
Authentic, confident portraits designed for dating profiles, social media, and the exciting possibility of meeting someone new.
The Gentleman Reboot Session
Sophisticated portraits for the man entering his next chapter—whether that means dating again, rediscovering confidence, or simply investing in himself.
Divorce Party Photography
Coverage of the friends, details, laughter, speeches, champagne, and the people helping you celebrate your fresh start.
The Family Transition Session
A meaningful portrait experience for families navigating change and honoring one chapter before embracing the next.
The Trash the Dress Session
Champagne, the beach, paint, glitter, confetti, or something entirely your own. Because moving forward deserves a little symbolism—and a lot of fun.
The Next Chapter Film
A cinematic film capturing not only how this chapter looked, but how it felt—because some stories deserve more than photographs.
Your Custom Experience
Convertible? Luxury hotel? Girls' getaway? Something wonderfully outrageous? Let's create an experience that's uniquely yours.
Your Experience, Your Way
Understated or outrageous.
Want to pop champagne in a convertible? Pose on a bed full of cash? Create a sophisticated boudoir story? Celebrate with your best friends? We will build the concept around your personality, not a template.
Choose one experience or combine several to create something completely your own. The ideas above are simply starting points, and many clients mix and match concepts to create a truly personalized celebration of their next chapter.
“Not where the story ended.
Where it begins again.”
The Reveal Celebration
Your experience does not end after the camera is put away.
Come back. Bring someone you love. Raise a glass.
You will return for a private image reveal where you can enjoy champagne, sparkling cider, or another favorite drink while seeing your photographs for the first time.
Choose what is already included.
Every collection includes a clearly stated number of professionally edited digital images. During your reveal, you will select your favorites.
No pressure. No surprise fees.
Additional images and full-gallery upgrades are available, but there is no hard sell, no uncomfortable sales script, and no obligation to purchase beyond your collection.
The Next Chapter Film
Because some stories deserve more than photographs.
Add a cinematic film to your experience and capture not only how this chapter looked, but how it felt.
Your film might include champagne, laughter, outfit changes, movement, a convertible, a hotel suite, time with friends, or your own words about where you have been and what comes next.
Video experiences are custom quoted and may be added to portrait sessions, boudoir experiences, luxury concepts, and divorce parties.
Available Film Experiences
The Glow-Up Reel
A polished, music-driven social reel featuring movement, styling, champagne, and attitude.
The Cinematic Highlight Film
A short, emotional film that tells the story of your experience in motion.
The Dear Future Me Film
An interview- or voiceover-based film about what you learned, what you survived, and what you want next.
Divorce Party Film Coverage
Toasts, laughter, speeches, dancing, details, and the people who helped you through it.
Investment
Experiences begin at $495.
Every collection includes a planning consultation, your custom photography experience, a private reveal celebration, and a defined number of professionally edited digital images.
Hair and makeup, specialty locations, luxury vehicles, hotels, props, event coverage, and elaborate concepts may be added or custom quoted.
Request DetailsServing Southern California
Los Angeles, Pasadena, Monrovia, Orange County, Long Beach, and beyond.
Studio based in Monrovia, California. Available throughout Southern California, with destination and travel experiences available upon request.
Divorce Photography in Southern California
Based in Monrovia, California, The Divorce Photographer specializes in divorce portrait sessions, divorce party photography, boudoir experiences, empowerment portraits, and reinvention photography throughout Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles, Orange County, Long Beach, and Southern California.
Whether you're celebrating a fresh start, planning a divorce party, or simply ready to embrace your next chapter, we create custom photography and film experiences designed to honor where you've been and celebrate where you're going.
Ready for your fresh start?
Let us create something worth celebrating.
Tell me about your vision. Do you want something elegant, emotional, funny, glamorous, or gloriously over the top? Whether you’re imagining champagne in a convertible, a luxury boudoir experience, or a celebration with your closest friends, I’d love to hear your ideas and create something uniquely yours.