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Our studio is located at 87 Wade Ave, Unit 100, Toronto
M6H 1P5, Canada.
Available for destination shoots worldwide.
Limited number of pre-booked appointments are available Monday – Friday from 9am to 3pm.
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Dream Boudoir Toronto is a boudoir & portrait photography studio in Toronto High Park/Junction Area, Ontario and a Vancouver, BC studio, specializing in tasteful images for women, professional headshots, personal branding, and contemporary portraits. Our goal is to help women feel liberated, authentic, and record their personal journey. As Toronto’s best boudoir photographer, women feel validated in their own skin without being judged or restricted during their photography sessions with us. We are a premium photography company providing in-studio and on-location photography services throughout Canada and available for international travel. We are affiliated with Purple Canvas Photography, Toronto.

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Give yourself permission to be seen ✨
Since 2014 | #1 FINE ART photographer in TO 💋
All-female studio
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On a cold February morning when I was sitting for

On a cold February morning when I was sitting for coffee with my makeup team, my studio phone rang. I picked up and started having a conversation with her about how her heart was broken mere days before Valentine’s Day and she was struggling to understand how this could’ve happened.

I told her, come spend the day with us. And on Valentine’s Day that year, we brought her to have a date with herself and remember who she is.

What a beautiful result.

It was an emotional day for all of us and I’m so glad she found a way back to herself.

This is what happens in the studio. This is the real behind the scenes: the change you feel when you hold the artwork 💫

12 years ago, I thought women would want safer pho

12 years ago, I thought women would want safer photos, smaller dreams, hidden albums, and “tasteful” versions of themselves.

Instead, women taught me that sensuality, softness, power, grief, reinvention, rage, confidence, artistry, and femininity can all exist in the same photograph.

They taught me that boudoir was never really about lingerie.

It was about identity.

About seeing yourself outside of motherhood, caregiving, relationships, careers, heartbreak, expectations, or survival mode.

And honestly?
That’s why choosing your photographer matters so much.

Because this work isn’t just documentation.
It’s storytelling.

Part 1 of things women completely proved me wrong about as a boudoir photographer.

— Alishba Zarmeen

This is one of the many reasons why I do what I do

This is one of the many reasons why I do what I do.

People assume professional women like doctors, law

People assume professional women like doctors, lawyers, executives, and women in STEM wouldn’t want boudoir photos.

But in reality, they’re often the women craving this experience the most.

I’ve photographed countless type A women over the last 12 years. Women who are brilliant, high-functioning, deeply responsible, and constantly carrying the emotional weight of everyone around them.

And almost all of them say some version of the same thing before their shoot:

“I don’t know how to relax.”
“I’m awkward.”
“I don’t know how to be in my body.”

Because when your entire life revolves around performance, caregiving, leadership, logic, and being “the strong one,” reconnecting with softness, sensuality, artistry, and presence can feel unfamiliar.

That’s what this experience is really about.

Not validation.
Remembrance.

Hi, I’m Alishba Zarmeen. If this sounds like you, DM me to book your consultation.

Most women don’t realize how many invisible contra

Most women don’t realize how many invisible contracts they signed when they were born.

Be smaller.
Be humble.
Be practical.
Wait until you lose the weight.
Don’t spend money on yourself.
Don’t take up space.
Don’t be “too much.”

And somewhere along the way, being witnessed became something women felt they had to earn.

This is why Dream Boudoir exists.

Not for perfect women.
DMs are open for real women ready to finally see themselves intentionally.

When Violet and Lord Marcus finally did it and we

When Violet and Lord Marcus finally did it and we all were shown that desire and fire aren’t an exclusive right of the young and experimental, something shifted in public discourse.

Even Ruth Gemmell explained in an interview the prep it took for her to be confident enough to do the scene. And it’s in doing the scene and prepping for it, she found her confidence.

This is also true for the women who come to me for boudoir in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s…

When I meet these women and photograph them, all of them have one thing to say: we’re just getting started 💫

Some women are looking for a photoshoot. The wome

Some women are looking for a photoshoot.

The women I work with are usually looking for something far deeper than that.

A pause from performing.
A space where they don’t have to be “on.”
A day where nobody needs anything from them.
A chance to feel powerful, soft, sensual, artistic, elegant, wild, emotional, confident… without needing to explain why.

And most importantly?
Something tangible at the end of it.

Not just files lost in a camera roll.
But artwork that lives in their home.
An album their future self will hold.
A portrait that reminds them who they were in this chapter of life.

That’s why our consultation calls matter so much.

Because before we ever talk outfits or poses, we talk about you.

Who you are beneath the roles.
What this season of life means.
What you want to remember about yourself years from now.

If that sounds like the kind of experience you’ve secretly been craving…

Book the call. ✨

You know that little girl who used to play dress u

You know that little girl who used to play dress up in the mirror like she was the main character?

Yeah. Her.

The one who had big dreams, weird little obsessions, chaotic imagination, and thought adulthood would feel magical.

She became someone’s mom.
And somewhere between the snacks, school pickups, mental load, and keeping everyone alive… she got quieter.

But she’s still there.
Not gone.
Just buried under responsibility and overstimulation.

I think that’s why so many women cry during their reveal sessions with me.
Not because of the photos.

Because for a second they see HER again.

The girl before survival mode.
Before self-sacrifice became a personality trait.
Before she forgot she was allowed to take up space too.

So this is your reminder:
you were a whole person before motherhood.
And you still are now. 🤍

Your kids stopped needing you every second. But wh

Your kids stopped needing you every second.
But what happened the last time you needed yourself?

There’s a specific kind of woman I have been photographing lately.

Her kids are older now.
More independent.
Maybe even moved out.

She spent years being needed by everyone else that somewhere along the way, she stopped seeing herself outside of that role.

Not because she disappeared.
Because she was busy building everyone else.

And then one day she walks into my studio and realizes:

She’s still in there.
Still beautiful.
Still magnetic.
Still allowed to take up space.

Not for dating apps.
Not for validation.
Not for anyone else.

For her.

For the version of herself that existed before everyone needed something from her.
And for the woman she’s becoming now.

These sessions hit differently for mothers of grown kids.
There’s grief. Freedom. Pride. Rediscovery. Sometimes all at once.

The point is: The way these women look at their artwork months later in the quiet of their home… that’s why I do what I do.

By no means a complete list of different versions

By no means a complete list of different versions of mothers I’ve photographed over the years but I do want to thank you ladies for your trust and for stepping in front of the camera.

♥️♥️♥️⭐️

The lie women in this city are constantly sold? B

The lie women in this city are constantly sold?

Better skin + Better body = Better confidence.
As if art is something women have to “earn” before making it their own.

Toronto women are some of the hardest working women I meet. Lawyers. Nurses. Creatives. Moms. Founders. Women holding entire lives together while forgetting that they’re placing themselves at the bottom of the list.

And then they come into my studio thinking they are the “before.”

No.

The first photo is not the before version of her.
She is already worthy. Already beautiful. Already carrying a story.

The photographs from the session simply show her what happens when a woman is finally seen as art.

That’s the transformation.

Not becoming someone else.
Becoming visible to yourself again.

✨ DM to book your luxury boudoir & portrait session. I help women who are done waiting to feel worthy.

People think building a photography studio taught

People think building a photography studio taught me business.

It didn’t.

It taught me women.

Women surviving divorce while still showing up beautifully.
Women rebuilding after betrayal.
Women learning to love bodies changed by motherhood, grief, illness, stress, survival, age, life.
Women celebrating anniversaries, healing after heartbreak, becoming mothers after years of trying.

And somewhere between building sets, adjusting light, designing albums, and listening to these stories… I was rebuilding too.

This career shaped me far beyond photography.

Because when you spend over a decade witnessing women choose themselves again and again, it changes the way you see life.

That’s why this will never feel like “just photos” to me.

It’s legacy.
It’s storytelling.
It’s proof that a woman existed in all her complexity and beauty during this chapter of her life.

Being trusted with that still humbles me.

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