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June 2, 2026

New Orleans Has One Aura Photographer. This Is Her Studio.

Planning and Budgeting
Things to Do
June 2, 2026
June 2, 2026

Why Aura Parlour Exists

The founding story matters here. The creator of Aura Parlour had been to other aura studios before she opened her own. Eyes closed in the photo. Bad image quality. A generic computer printout passed off as a "reading." No personality, no depth, no sense that the person behind the camera actually cared what they were handing you. She knew she could do better, and she had the specific combination of skills to prove it. Her practice in Witchcraft informs how she reads and interprets what appears in each portrait. Her computer science background gave her the technical tools to build the imaging system herself. She didn't buy an off-the-shelf kit. She built a custom, one-of-a-kind aura imaging machine and housed it inside a vintage camera from the early 1900s, which also happens to be perfectly at home in the French Quarter. That choice wasn't just aesthetic. It's a reflection of how seriously she takes the whole thing.

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What Actually Happens in the Session

Each guest sits for an individual portrait, about five minutes from start to finish. The camera captures your energetic state in that specific moment, producing a colorful portrait unique to you at that point in time. What follows is a personal reading of the colors that appear, not a laminated card with a color chart, but an actual interpretation grounded in real knowledge of what those colors mean. Every guest leaves with a printed portrait. The organizer receives digital copies of all portraits plus detailed aura reports for every participant. The studio is private, hosted at Devotion Studios on Chartres Street, which means your group has the space to themselves.

What Makes It Work for a Group

The format turns out to be ideal for parties because it creates conversation at every stage. While one person is being photographed, everyone else is watching, waiting, speculating about what colors might appear. When the portraits come out, comparing them is its own event. Whose aura is deep purple? Who showed up in yellow? The digital reports give the group something to return to after the trip ends, a thread that keeps the experience alive past the moment itself. Bachelorette groups, birthday gatherings, and close friend trips all find something meaningful in it, partly because the experience asks you to be honest and a little vulnerable, and doing that alongside your people creates a kind of closeness that's hard to manufacture with a typical activity.

The French Quarter Context

There's a reason this studio exists in New Orleans and specifically in the French Quarter. The city has a long, genuine relationship with mysticism, spiritual practice, and the idea that there are forces at work beneath the surface of things. An aura photography experience rooted in that tradition, run by someone who has practiced Witchcraft for over 20 years and written the book on it literally, fits here in a way it wouldn't fit anywhere else. You're not doing a tourist-y version of New Orleans mysticism. You're walking into a studio where the real thing is being practiced, by someone who built the machine herself.

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