Hi, I’m Grace! I’m a commercial animal photographer, creative coach, NGH Certified Hypnotist, Akashic Record Reader and energy intuitive. I help creatives, artists, coaches and healers reconnect with their innate creative energy so they can manifest all their unique gifts with courage and use them as a vehicle to serve and create expansion in the world. Through brain training, subconscious reprogramming, and energy reading, I show people how to unblock resistance in the creative process so they can be an open channel for the work that wants to flow through and be made.

For the longer more official bio:

GRACE CHON is a commercial and editorial animal photographer, acclaimed worldwide for her highly expressive portraits of animals and authentic photos of people and their pets. Her clients include ad agencies, pet brands, magazines, publishing companies, celebrities, TV shows and more.

Grace has been photographing animals for 14 years, but before she stumbled upon the greatest job in the world, she was an award winning art director in advertising working for brands like California Milk, Panda Express, Shutterfly and more.

While working in the ad industry in 2008, Grace found herself feeling deeply unhappy with her career. She bought a camera to take photos of rescue dogs and soon after, started a side hustle as a family pet photographer. Her business grew faster than she could have imagined! 9 months later, despite the “Great Recession,” she quit her day job to focus full time on animal photography and has never looked back.

Now as a commercial and editorial photographer, Grace works with clients like Purina, Milkbone, Fancy Feast, Woman’s Day Magazine, Men’s Journal, and celebrities like Chris Pratt, Chelsea Handler, Clinton Kelly, and Boo the Dog. Her work is featured in advertising, magazines, greeting cards, calendars, books, and television.

In 2014, her photo series “Zoey and Jasper,” featuring her son and rescue dog, went viral around the world, with mentions by The Huffington Post, Mashable, Good Morning America, Buzzfeed, The Today Show, and countless mentions by the international media.

In 2016, her photo series “HAIRY,” featuring dogs before and after their wildly cute haircuts, went viral again, with mentions by The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Refinery29, HelloGiggles, INSIDER, Yahoo, O the Oprah Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Vanity Fair Italia, and a number of international press from around the world.

In 2018, newly photographed images from the “HAIRY” series went viral yet again, with mentions around the globe.

Grace is also the author of 2 dog photography books - Waggish: Dogs Smiling for Dog Reasons and Puppy Styled: Japanese Dog Grooming Before and After.

From creating award winning, viral ad campaigns to personal photography work that has gone viral multiple times, Grace knows how to craft ideas that get noticed. She believes the key to life is tuning in deeply to what your creative gifts and talents are and sharing them others. She is passionate about empowering and teaching others how to do the same.

She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, sons, and 2 rescue dogs Zoey and Charlie.

View her photography work at www.gracechon.com.

PODCAST EPISODES FEATURING GRACE:

Money Flirt - Being a Caretaker of Money

Dog Mom Podcast - Amazing Grace: Pet Photography and More

We are Photographers - Animal Photography Meets Creativity School

Beyond the Dollar - Using Creativity to Boost Your Income with Grace Chon

Unapologetically Sensitive - Creativity and Feeling like an Outsider

The Shift - How to Find Your Own Zone of Creativity

Creative Queso - When a Pet Photographer Goes to Creativity School

Creative Cravings - Looking at Life from Different Angles