Tamara Sadlo
[Aka. Tamara Obscura]
1980- 20_ _ , American photographer, b. Minneapolis, MN.

Sadlo began hating photography from infancy, with her proud and loving parents hovering over her crib confusing her with the noise of the shutter-click along with exposing her blinded baby eyes with the blaring paparazzi flashes on their point-and-shoot-(bang!)-cameras.


This hatred of photography grew exponentially with the multitude of visits to the K-mart studios for Baby-Portraits, Family-portraits & matching-dresses-sisters-portraits. Hatred was followed by more hatred with those Junior high school mug shots documenting the awkward ugly-duckling years…


Sadlo is a graduate of the College of Visual Arts. She started school with a painting portfolio, but somewhere in her scholastic progress, she developed a crush on photography. Photography was the mysterious boy who said little, but had a lot of magic in his mind, if she could just get that chance to get to know him... Photography was a relationship between woman and machine. As with other mediums of Sadlo’s interest, the process is more important to the product. And... every, every, everyone, every place and everything tells a story
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Photography is a Language, Listen Carefully.

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Tamara Obscura Photography
[Owned by Tamara Sadlo]
2001- 20_ _ , Portrait & Event Photography, b. Minneapolis, MN.

Tamara Obscura Photography is a female owned photography studio based in NE Minneapolis, but always willing to travel. Tamara is primarily focused on boudoir photography because it is a great way to show other women how brave, beautiful, strong, cleaver and flirtatious their personalities and figures really are. The process is a collaborative effort from start to finish; models are empowered to create their photo session in the preliminary brainstorm session. No two photo shoots are the same.

The beauty of documenting the human form in photography is being able to revisit those moments with a fresh mind from another's perspective. The best compliment Tamara has ever received was hearing a first time boudoir model look through images and say “wow, …I am beautiful!”

Thank you!

P.S.: As far as artists biographies go, this artist’s life is a work-in-progress : so far there is much to learn & do…