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WENDY HURST PORTRAIT

Editorial style portrait photographer based in Utah, USA

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I design and sew custom clothing and costumes, and my favorite thing to do is use them to enhance a storytelling portrait! I offer custom wardrobe as an add-on option to your portrait session, which you can learn more about on my prices page.

Click an image to see the photo shoot that featured that clothing.

Petticoat Dress & Corset Belt

Lilac Purple Halter-Top Gown (Wrap)

White Halter-Top Gown (Wrap)

Blue Halter-Top Gown (Wrap)

Full-Length Red Cloak

Billowing Gray Halter-Top Gown (Wrap)

Full-Length Black Crushed Velvet Cloak

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The Lonely Flower, with Kollene Snow | Salt Lake Conceptual Portrait Photographer

By Wendy Hurst

Have you ever been stuck trying think of an idea, and then all of a sudden a tiny, fragile glimpse of something appears? In those moments I just want to grab it and hold on so it can't get away, but if you don't let it breathe, that poor little idea gets squished. I wanted this photo shoot with Kollene Snow to illustrate that idea. Like a lonely flower that blooms, sometimes unexpected ideas lead the way to the next one. Model: Kollene Snow Makeup: Kollene Snow Photography: Wendy Hurst Portrait

The Creative Perspective Challenge: Movement

By Wendy Hurst

Most people aren't used to creating an image based on a theme they learned on the spot, so I started there. Three photographers with different experience, ideas and creative perceptions came together and out of their comfort zones to demonstrate one simple truth: there is more than one "right" answer to a creative question. For some that answer isn't as simple as it seems. Anyone who has ever had writer's block or the artistic equivalent knows what I mean. As one studies the works of others it can be easy to fall into the "right way" trap. An inability to exactly reproduce an image like someone else, or the concern that an idea has "already been done" can feel crippling. And to that I emphatically repeat: there is more than one "right answer" to a creative question. Here's how the exercise worked: The Challenge: Create at least one image interpreting a single theme with only one hour to prepare and one hour t...

I accidentally made 1776 look like Vogue (at Colonial Heritage Festival Utah 2025)

By Wendy Hurst Portrait

Orem, Utah | Portraits from the Colonial Heritage Festival 2025. It’s not cosplay. It’s commitment. I brought my portrait studio to a place where no one owns a phone—but somehow they all know how to churn butter. Or at least, where the demonstration tent is located. No one broke character. Not even when I Vogue’d them. I didn’t mean to make it look like a 1776 fashion editorial. Well, just a little. I tracked them down from camp to camp and asked for a photograph in the shade. One reenactor offered me their “smoldering ye olde stare.” Another adjusted their bonnet like they were being interviewed for the cover of “Wool Weekly.” (I’d read it.) Their colonial confidence gave me colonial confidence. And don’t we all need more of that in our lives? Dressed as Colonial British officer's wife. The Studio My “studio” is portable, in a wagon—yep—with a backdrop stand held up by a bag of cornmeal. (JK, it's just playground-grade sand.) I carried around one light that many calle...