Based in Los Angeles with Studios in New York & London.
Making history, one portrait at a time.
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Rory Lewis makes cinematic, painterly portraits in the classical European tradition. Twenty-three years of practice. Three studios. One quiet ambition: to make portraits the sitter's grandchildren will still want to keep
Three years from the first email to the shutter releasing. Jared and I had been trying to find a window for this sitting since before the pandemic, and the dates kept slipping — shooting schedules, travel, the world generally not co-operating. When we finally sat down in the London studio in August 2022, the wait had become its own kind of preparation.
Three years from the first email to the shutter releasing. Jared and I had been trying to find a window for this sitting since before the pandemic, and the dates kept slipping — shooting schedules, travel, the world generally not co-operating. When we finally sat down in the London studio in August 2022, the wait had become its own kind of preparation.