Commissions & series

Work

Selected projects from the last few years — editorial features, campaigns, and the personal series that feed them.

012023—2025Self-initiated

Tidewater

A long-form study of the Atlantic edge at the hours nobody photographs — the flat grey slack between tides.

Tidewater began as an excuse to leave the city before dawn. Over two years it became a record of the Portuguese coast in its least flattering, most honest light — the windless slack water when the sea forgets to perform.

Shot entirely on medium-format film, the series resists the postcard. There are no sunsets here, only the long grey middle of the day where the horizon dissolves and the water turns to pewter.

The work was first shown at Galeria Sal in 2024 and exists as a 48-page risograph edition.

LandscapeAnalogExhibition

Role — Photography, Sequencing

022024Folha Studio

Held Breath

A portrait monograph built around a single instruction to every sitter: stop performing, and wait.

Forty sitters, one studio, the same north window. Held Breath is a portrait series made by removing things — props, direction, the expectation that a face should do anything at all.

Each session ran long on purpose. I photographed the moment after the sitter assumed we were finished, when the held expression finally fell away. Those are the frames that made the book.

Published by Folha Studio in a first edition of 500, with an essay by curator Inês Tavares.

PortraitureEditorialPrint

Role — Photography, Art Direction

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032024Apartamento Magazine

Interiors, Empty

Rooms photographed in the ten minutes after their owners stepped out — domestic spaces caught mid-thought.

A commission for Apartamento that turned into a small obsession. The brief was simple — photograph six homes — but I kept asking the owners to leave the room.

What stayed behind told a better story: an unmade chair, a curtain still moving, the particular way afternoon light lands on a table someone just left. The empty room as a kind of portrait.

The feature ran across fourteen pages in the autumn issue.

EditorialInteriorsCommission

Role — Photography

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042025Casa Pau

Salt & Slow

A campaign for a coastal ceramics house, shot like a memory of summer rather than a product catalogue.

Casa Pau makes unglazed stoneware on the Alentejo coast. They wanted a campaign that felt less like advertising and more like the feeling of holding a warm bowl on a cold morning.

I art-directed and shot the full season — still life, hands, the studio, the landscape the clay comes from — keeping everything in the same soft, salt-bleached register. No retouching, no styling that announced itself.

The images run across packaging, web, and the brand’s first print catalogue.

CampaignBrandArt Direction

Role — Photography, Art Direction

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