Kayleigh Morin is a New York City-based fashion and portrait photographer who built her business the way a lot of working creatives actually do: gradually, alongside a traditional job, rather than through a single break. She got her start in photography as a young adult and spent years working in sales while developing her craft and client base on the side, before it became her full-time work.
Her portfolio today spans fashion editorials, portraiture and commercial and stock photography, much of it in black and white, with a style that leans toward clean, confident studio and editorial work rather than heavy post-production effects. She’s also developing an ongoing street photography series — a more observational, unstructured body of work sitting alongside the polished editorial and commercial side of her practice.
Where her work has appeared
Morin’s photography has been featured in PhotoVogue, GMARO, Vous Madrid and La Modele. Her published portfolio shows editorial and cover work with La Modele USA, along with features in French Fashion Edition and French Fashion USA and a commercial collaboration with Crystal Bananas, alongside a photographer-gallery listing on Vogue’s PhotoVogue platform — a substantial run of placements for an independent photographer building a career outside a major agency.
Her advice for other entrepreneurs
Asked what she’d tell other young entrepreneurs building a creative business, Morin’s answer wasn’t about gear or artistic technique — it was about the business fundamentals that often get skipped in creative fields: learn actual business skills like sales and marketing, stay tenacious, and don’t give up on the work you’re trying to build. It’s a fairly unglamorous answer, and a fairly accurate one — her own path, working a sales job while building a client photography business on the side, is a direct illustration of the advice rather than something detached from her own experience.
You can see Morin’s full portfolio at kayleighmorinphotography.com.
