Portraits with presence.
Families · Motherhood · Personal Portraits

Bay Area · California & beyond

For more than two decades, I’ve photographed people through the seasons that matter—the beginnings, the milestones, the relationships, and the moments that become part of who we are.

Klodjana Dervishi

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A family sharing an intimate moment with their baby, each person gently touching or kissing the baby's forehead.

Photographs that feel like you.

Beautiful photographs are not necessarily about perfect posing.

They are about expression. Connection. Presence.

My approach is calm and highly guided, with enough direction to make you feel confident and enough room for the moments that cannot be directed.

Whether we photograph at home, outdoors, or in a carefully chosen studio setting, the experience is designed around you.

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PORTRAITS

Three people, a man, a woman, and a young girl, sitting on a pathway in a garden surrounded by green foliage, smiling at the camera.

Photographs of the people you love, exactly as they are in this season of life.

Families

A pregnant woman with blonde hair, wearing a black long-sleeve dress, standing outdoors with trees in the background, holding her pregnant belly with both hands, smiling softly and looking down.

Pregnancy, new motherhood, and the connection that changes everything.

Motherhood

Woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and gloves, outdoors in an urban setting.

For milestones, reinvention, birthdays, seniors, or simply because you want photographs of yourself that feel unmistakably like you.

Personal Portraits

Plan a Portrait Session

You don't have to know what to do.

I'll guide you through the entire process—from choosing the right setting and planning what to wear to directing you during the session and helping you choose the photographs afterward.

The goal isn't to make you perform for the camera.

It's to make you comfortable enough to forget about it.

Black and white portrait of a woman with long hair and glasses looking at the camera

Two decades behind the camera.

My work has taken me from intimate family portraits to global brands and international publications.

I've photographed for companies including Apple, Nespresso and Capezio, and my work has appeared internationally, including Vogue.

But portraiture remains the work closest to me.

Because photographs become more valuable with time.

Meet Klodjana

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area

Portrait sessions are available throughout Danville, Alamo, Blackhawk, San Ramon, Walnut Creek, Pleasanton, the Tri-Valley, Palo Alto, Atherton, San Francisco and surrounding Bay Area communities.

Select California travel commissions are also available.

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A woman holding a baby and a young girl standing in front, all smiling. They are against a plain light gray background.
A woman with long, wavy blonde hair wearing a black top and a beige blazer, sitting at a white table with her hands clasped, smiling against a plain white background.
A woman with dark wavy hair and a young boy with straight black hair smiling and hugging outdoors during sunset, with blurred trees in the background.
A smiling couple touching foreheads, with the woman touching the man's face and her arm around his shoulder, close together
A man in a navy blue suit with a white shirt, smiling and adjusting his jacket with his left hand, standing against a plain light gray background.
A young girl with long black hair and bangs, wearing a white top with ruffled sleeves and a black skirt, standing against a plain gray background.

Ready when you are.

Tell me what you're photographing, who you want photographed, and what you're hoping to create.

I'll help you determine the right experience.

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