lookbook / the people behind the optics
Photographers, retouchers and stylists first: private AI synthesis is a lighting tool here, and human judgement on likeness has the final say on every gallery.
Simone Duplessis
B.F.A. in Commercial Photography, 11+ years in editorial portrait lighting. Simone shot executive portraits and magazine covers on medium-format digital systems for more than a decade before founding Rue Meridian Portraits. Unimpressed by how plastic early AI avatar tools looked, she built the studio's lighting presets around real 85mm lens fall-off, natural catchlight placement and strict facial-proportion preservation.
Andre Batiste
Adobe Certified Expert (Photoshop) and Capture One Certified Colorist, nine years in high-end beauty and editorial retouching. Andre leads manual quality checks and hero retouching on every order, working on hardware-calibrated monitors so skin tones stay true across every complexion, glasses and jewellery keep crisp geometry, and freckles, dimples and silver hair are respected rather than erased.
Claire Fontenot
CIPP/US Certified Information Privacy Professional, seven years in creative SaaS operations and enterprise security. Sending personal photographs takes trust, so Claire runs the isolated single-client training containers, enforces the no-public-training policy, oversees the 30-day source-photo purge and supports HR teams through company-wide rollouts.
Miles Robicheaux
Certified Image Consultant (AICI), B.A. in Visual Communications, eight years in corporate brand styling. A portrait only works when wardrobe and setting suit your industry, from fintech knitwear to appellate-court tailoring. Miles helps individual clients choose flattering necklines and colours, and builds cohesive style guides for remote teams.