Light, shadow, and the half-second a subject forgets the camera. Photographs that feel less like pictures and more like scenes from a film you almost remember.
Six frames pulled from the archive — portraits, streets, still lifes, and seascapes shot on film and rendered in deep shadow. Scroll slow.
Algarve · 2022 · 35mm
Street · Lisbon · 2023
Editorial · Vogue PT · 2024
Still Life · 2024
Architecture · Porto · 2023
Portrait · Studio · 2024
Personal · 2023
Landscape · Madeira · 2022
Editorial · COS · 2024
I'm Ava — a photographer from Taipei, working out of a dark studio in Lisbon since 2017. My work lives in the seam between editorial fashion and quiet documentary: portraits that feel overheard, not posed.
I shoot on 35mm and medium-format film, push the shadows, and let the grain do the talking. Published in Vogue Portugal, Kinfolk, and NYT Magazine; campaigns for Aesop, COS, and Hermès Petit h.
Editorial, brand, and fine-art commissions. A limited number of portrait sessions each season. Lisbon-based, available worldwide.
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