We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Yolanda Pucinski a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Yolanda thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s talk legacy – what sort of legacy do you hope to build?

I believe everyone wants to leave a legacy of sorts. Whether it be a financial reason for their family or make their name/brand/ work remembered by others. For me it has changed over the last couple of years. I thought getting published into magazines and having billboards up in NYC LA Miami would be apart of the legacy. The legacy I want to leave now is that for moment in a person’s life I made them FEEL … feel beautiful… feel excited…feel sexy…feel powerful…handsome…seen…loved…make them FEEL that someone got them…I understood what they needed /wanted. So when they look at their photo it was only a moment together but every time, they see it they remember how they felt!

I know how powerful a photo is….it’s the first thing you do when someone leaves your life…. you search for that image, photograph… that moment. To remember the good feeling …to feel close to them somehow…. it’s the only tangible thing you have when they leave…only thing you can still touch.
What will people say after I’m gone? I hope that they say how I helped them, made them feel, look at the photo or art creation and say oh that day with Yolanda I will never forget that moment….and they smile forever.

Yolanda, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

About me: To start I always dread this part… do I start off listing my things I do like a job interview, or do I just go in like I’m talking with my girlfriends :)? So here goes, Born and raised in New England, my parents were from Poland, so I have more of a European take on life and learned to be creative from my mom. I have one amazing brother who was actually the photographer first! I always found myself daydreaming, feeling situations out, people watching, and Art was always in my life. I loved fashion, magazines, black and white photography, interior design and went to school for merchandising. Basically, anything visual, hands on, and where I could join in fix it and be a part of the situation. Photography found me… started with a local hometown school picture company doing paperwork and by end of year was photographing students and owned the company few years later. What happened along the way is I realized all the things I liked and learned before, like flipping through magazine wasn’t so much about the model or wanting to be a model ..it was the lighting the mood the “feeling” as you looked at the photo. What I was able to create. All this brought me to study with masters in the industry and have my own studio creating fashion inspired photoshoots for high school seniors, make the feel like models.
Life after covid: I moved to Florida work freelance and am part of RED Talent Agency here South Florida, where we special in Branding, creating and working events, fashion shows, and more. Bringing all this into every shoot for every person that gets in front of our cameras. From models, magazines, events, brands, to dating headshots, boudoir and food/product photography, fashion pet shoots. I add my artistic side well as by creating artwork for interior designers and combining my photography with digital art design for t-shirts and wall art for interior designers/decorators and more. I can see a vision for you/your brand… when people look at my images, they say there’s something about them, draws them in.
My style has a fashion flare but classic with edge and ‘feeling”. I create… I don’t just shoot a photograph or snap the pic… I create the feeling which translates into more than just a pretty picture.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

Most rewarding thing of being a creative is that I can be me…myself…moody/edgy/quiet/loud insert any adjective here. I can see and feel how I impacted on someone’s view of themselves…. when they look at an image and get teary eyed or can’t stop looking at their image… that’s my why!

What’s been the best source of new clients for you?

Best source of new clients has always been word of mouth. Yes social media and all the “biz” stuff is a part of it, but you can’t type out “feeling” in a sentence or paragraph, but when someone shares and shows what I did for them …well that is priceless

Contact Info:

• Website: http://redtanlentagency.com/ and http://yolandachristinephography.com/
• Instagram: @official_yolanda_christine @red_boudoir_ @official.redagency
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialredagency https://www.facebook.com/yolandachristinephotography
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yolanda-christine-photographer
• Other: www.redtalentagency.com

Image Credits
ALL IMAGES are mine YCP