Privacy & Security

Who sees your images

The studio. That is the whole list: the photographer and Nastassia, who works inside the studio on every session.

Every frame is handled and edited in this studio, by us. No outsourced retouching, no contract editors, no services that see your files. Nothing about your work is ever someone else’s job.

Frames you veto at review are deleted in front of you. The rest of the session stays in the private studio archive, and any of it is deleted the day you ask.

Where your images live

Master files live on private, access-controlled storage. Nothing about your work ever sits in a public folder, behind a shareable link, or on a third-party gallery service with its own terms of service.

Delivery happens from this domain, behind per-person access that we set up together. Email is the least private channel there is, so by default it carries words only, never work; if you prefer delivery by email anyway, ask in writing and that becomes your call, stated plainly as yours.

Full-resolution files change hands only by explicit written arrangement, and downloads are sized deliberately: what you need, at the size you need it for.

What gets published

Two kinds of sessions happen here, and they run on different defaults. Which kind yours is gets stated in the release before the shoot, never decided after.

Portfolio sessions, meaning TF and castings the studio pays for: publication is the point, for both of us. The work appears in the studio’s portfolio, here and on the portfolio and networking platforms where working models and photographers share work, with you credited and tagged so the images send traffic back to you. That reach is half of what the trade pays you in, and usage of the work is what a paying studio is buying; the release says both in plain words.

Your say in a portfolio session is real and specific: low-resolution selects come to you for written approval before anything posts, and a frame you flag stays private. What you approve is what the world sees.

Commissioned sessions, where you hire the studio: publication is your call on the four tiers stated on the booking page: Private, Anonymous, Selected, Full. Private is a first-class choice, not a special request, and the tier is revisited after you have seen the images, because nobody can know their comfort level before then.

Either way, placements come down from the web and social in good faith when asked. Prints already sold cannot be recalled, and the release says so honestly. Testimonials, if you ever offer one, run without your name unless you insist otherwise.

What we collect, and what we do not

The application form asks for what it shows: a name or working name, an email, and what you want to make. Photo ID is checked for every session and a signed release is kept; both protect us both.

This site runs no advertising trackers, no social pixels, and no analytics that follow you elsewhere. The 18+ confirmation and this site’s access gates use plain cookies that remember your answer and nothing else.

Money, discreetly

Payments read Porch Light Studio on a card statement. No invoice, envelope, or line item says anything more than that, because the studio’s name was chosen to say enough.

Deletion

For commissioned work: ask, and your images are removed from everything the studio controls: galleries, working storage, backups on their cycle.

For portfolio sessions, the archive is the studio’s record of its own work, so it stays; published placements come down in good faith as stated above. The signed release and the session record are kept as legal documents in every case; they are the paperwork that protects us both.