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A Pride-inspired professional photo studio is coming to Bow Market this June and you<\/i> could be the art. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Starting June 5, Saturated, a new pop-up bySomerville-based photographer Amanda Macchia, will give the commemorative photo strip a Technicolor makeover. Macchia describes the immersive experience as \u201ca mix between visiting an art gallery and going to a photo booth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She designed the 9-by-18-foot space located on Bow Market\u2019s second floor (between Amantolli and Nook cocktail bar) to feel like a professional photo or film studio set. A custom, color-drenched mural by her friendand artistLindsey Parker will serve as a vibrant backdrop for photos alongside a fiber arts piece by Somerville artist Quintin Marcus, also known as Yarnqueer on social media. The effect, Macchia hopes, will be like \u201cwalking into a rainbow.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Once inside, attendees can participate in what Macchia called an \u201ceditorialized photo booth experience.\u201d While Pride is the pop-up\u2019s theme, the portrait studio, which is open Friday through Sunday, is available for everyone to explore and book \u2014 from families to couples to individuals to pets.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to invite everybody into our love letter to Pride,\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p>\n

All attendees have to do is show up with their pizzazz and a photographer will provide music and guidance for posing for each shot.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are going to step into the studio and have a mini photo session with a photographer that is really skilled at creative directing and bringing out joy,\u201d she described. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Each pre-booked, 30-minute session at Saturated will cost $50. In addition to the shoot experience, the package includes five professionally edited digital images and a Polaroid to take home. Walk-ins will be available ($65 for 15 minutes) and the curious are welcome to enter for $15 and explore the exhibit as a spectator, taking their own selfies along the way. Macchia hopes the cost will help make a professional photoshoot experience accessible to a wider audience. On Monday through Thursday, the location will be available for private rentals for photographers and content creators.<\/span><\/p>\n

To celebrate Pride, Saturated is partnering with Bow Market\u2019s micro-wedding chapel Dearly Studio to give away free ceremonies and photo sessions to three LGBTQIA2S+ couples on June 18. (Interested couples can enter online through Dearly\u2019s website, dearly.studio.)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe space isn\u2019t really about making money at all,\u201d said Macchia, who also owns an eponymous wedding and family photography business, Amanda Macchia Photography. \u201cIt\u2019s about creating a really beautiful space where people can come and get their pictures taken and have a joyful moment, so it really made sense to align a giveaway with that.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Saturated, Fridays-Saturdays, noon-7 p.m., Sunday, noon-5 p.m., Runs through June. Bow Market, Bow Market Way, Somerville. More information and to pre-book at studiobyamp.com\/saturated. <\/span><\/p>\n

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