The LPJ Photography Project Beauty 2022 features girls and their mothers challenging societal beauty standards. Dispensing with makeup and retouching, the participants’ black-and-white portraits and personal reflections underscore inherent beauty and the perils of comparison to social media’s unrealistic portraits. Emphasizing inner beauty, kindness, and acceptance, the project promotes self-worth and challenges the definition of beauty beyond physical traits.

Project Beauty 2021, despite COVID-19’s disruptions, captured the essence of its senior participants, pushing past traditional beauty standards. These teens were photographed without makeup, urged to share personal beauty insights, redefining beauty as confidence, character, and inner light, rather than perfection.

Lymarie, from small NC town Roanoke Rapids, defied expectations by creating a successful photography business focused on high school seniors and their families, offering a luxury experience sustained by her extensive professional training and investment in equipment and education. She expresses gratitude to her clients like the featured Senior, Taylor.

Senior Schedules are crazy. Between the last of the standard tests, college application deadlines, the plethora of work, athletic, or activity duties… plus, oh yeah, studying and school work in general, the average senior calendar is controlled chaos. At LPJ Photography, we embrace the crazy, and do everything we can to make sure Senior Pictures […]

The first memory I have of Whitney, she was maybe 8 years old. Her sister was on a competitive cheer team out of Raleigh with my daughter, Cailyn, and it was her mom’s turn to drive them to tumbling practice… so I volunteered to take Whitney to Tae Kwon Do. We met at our normal […]

LPJ Photography introduces Team 2020 with an emotional touch, as the photographer’s daughter is among the graduating seniors. A Photo/Video Scavenger Hunt, makeup, and photoshoot sessions foster group cohesion, expressed through unique senior portraits.
Rising seniors are invited to join the experience, which promises to make their final year memorable.

As we bid farewell to the 2019 Senior class, LPJ Photography reflects fondly on their cap and gown moments, drawing inspiration from Dr. Seuss’s “Oh, the Places You’ll Go,” a favored graduation gift and guiding wisdom for future endeavors.