TenebraPhotographic Studio

Photographs made in
low, deliberate light.

Studio and location work — still life, botanicals, and the animal world, shot in the manner of the Old Masters. London.

Index

Five bodies of work,
made between 2019 and 2025.

01 / Portrait

The Weight of Hands

Adornment and concealment — heirloom silver, worn knuckles, a face withheld. Made on medium format in a single north window.

Hands wearing heirloom silver rings held over a face
02 / Botanical

After the Fall

Beech and magnolia turned to copper, lit from behind until the veins read like stained glass. From an archive gathered each autumn.

Backlit dried leaves in copper tones against darkness
03 / The Animal World

Nocturne

A black jaguar held in near-darkness — only the eyes and the wet of the nose catching light. Three sessions at a big-cat sanctuary.

Close portrait of a black jaguar in low light
04 / Specimen

Two Moths, Crimson

A pair of tiger moths suspended against velvet, wings backlit to translucence. Part of a wider study of the garden's overlooked insects.

Two pale moths against deep crimson velvet
05 / Still Life

Iris, in the Old Manner

Bearded iris arranged against oxblood tile, in the chiaroscuro of a Dutch flower painting. Available as archival pigment prints.

Purple bearded iris against deep red tiled wall