Film photographer
Lisbon · Portugal
Booking Spring 2027
FRAME 01 — Fog Index, Cascades, 2025 · Portra 400 · 35 mm
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Fog Index
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(01) About the work
I shoot on film, slowly, and print what survives. Fog, concrete, faces in side light: ordinary places held long enough to become something else.
Mara Ellison, self-portrait · Tri-X 400 · 2024
Contact sheet
Nine frames, 2023 – 2026 →
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(02) Selected series
Three bodies of work, still in the tray.
(03) Process
Four slow steps from light to print.
No batch edits, no presets. Every roll is developed, scanned and printed by hand in the same small room.
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Walk
Hours without a camera raised. I look first, then choose the one frame worth a click.
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Expose
Meter, wait, expose. A roll of 36 is a week of decisions, not a burst.
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Develop
Tank, chemistry, temperature. Mistakes stay in, they are part of the print.
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Silver gelatin on fibre paper, signed and numbered. Scans ship the same week.
1,240
Rolls shot since 2016
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Countries photographed
412
Silver prints sold
9
Years in the darkroom
(04) Work with me
Commissions, portraits, prints.
Portrait sessions
Studio or location, two rolls, contact sheet and five prints.
from €480
Editorial & brand
Story-led shoots for magazines and slow brands. Film only.
on request
Architecture
Interiors and exteriors, 6x7 and 35 mm, scanned at 5000 dpi.
from €900
Fine-art prints
Hand-printed, editioned, signed. Shipped flat in a box.
from €120
(05) Kind words
“Mara waited forty minutes for the light on our building, then shot four frames. They are the only four we ever used.”
Ines Carvalho — Atelier Norte, Porto