I'm delighted to be back at my Midtown Manhattan studio from Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 November, with a limited number of sessions available across three days.
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portrait photography
Exclusive Interview with Rory Lewis All About Photo September 2026
I am very grateful to All About Photo, and to its founder and director Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, for featuring my work in an interview published this month.
Read MoreInside the Portrait: A Four-Hour Lighting & Direction Masterclass at B&H New York 13th August 2026
There's a moment, going back through the frames from a sitting, where you can feel the difference between a photograph that merely records a face and one that holds the room. It is rarely a question of the camera. Almost always it comes down to two things: how the light falls, and how the person in front of you was directed in the seconds before the shutter.
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Experience — New Headshots for Sasha
There's a particular kind of luck in photographing someone you know completely. With Sasha I've now made more portraits than of any other subject I've ever worked with, and these latest frames from the LA studio are some of the ones I keep returning to. The cropped platinum hair, the stacked silver ear pieces, the Adidas track top with its three stripes — there's an austere, almost sculptural confidence to her here that the lighting was built to serve rather than soften.
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