DellaMorte Photography | Formerly Koontz Photography

 

Koontz Photography logo featuring a red and orange lotus flower with elegant black serif typography and decorative swirl accents.
Dellamorte Photography logo featuring a gothic bat design with dark red and orange tones on a decorative emblem.
Woman in studded black jacket with pins and red hair poses confidently with arms crossed against colorful city backdrop.
Punk woman with red hair making rock horns gesture, tongue out, wearing black jacket with pins and patches.

Photos by Pottinger Studios

SAME PHOTOGRAPHER. LOUDER. WEIRDER. MORE HERSELF THAN EVER

This year Koontz Photography celebrated its 20th year in business, and it felt like exactly the right moment to make a change that has been a long time coming.


If you have a contract or gift certificate under the Koontz Photography name, it is absolutely still valid and honored in full because at the end of the day it has always just been me.


Life changes are taking me away from my former married name, and it felt like the right time to let the business follow. The business I built deserves a name that reflects who I actually am, and DellaMorte Photography is that name.

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WHERE DOES THE NAME DELLAMORTE COME FROM?

 

When I was 15, a friend shortened my name, Daniella, and started calling me Della. It stuck. For almost two decades I have been using the stage name DellaMorte for everything related to my artwork, my body painting, and anything dark and creative that I felt I had to keep separate from the professional, polished world of wedding and family photography.


The name DellaMorte comes from the 1994 Italian horror film Cemetery Man, or DellaMorte Dellamore which translates loosely to, "of death, of love." The duality has always felt more like me than anything else.

For years I kept those two versions of myself in different rooms, concerned that one would scare off the other. I spent a long time trying to be palatable to everyone, hiding my interests, and presenting a version of myself that felt safe enough for any client to book. At some point I had to accept that the people who are meant to find me will love every side of me, and the ones who don't were never really my people to begin with.


The name and website have changed, but I'm still the same photographer showing up with the same values and the same obsession with finding the real moment.

Dark maroon and black bat logo with spread wings, sharp details, and a menacing face, ideal for sports team branding.

Caution: The photographer previously known as Koontz Photography has fully come out of the coffin. Content may include bats, fake blood, special effects makeup, cosplay, burlesque, pin up photography, horror references, and zero apologies. Proceed only if you are cool with our kind of weird. Sensitive viewers are strongly encouraged to take a fruit snack and return to safety.

 

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