Fictional studio concept · sample portfolio
Prism makes pictures
that hold still.
An image-led portfolio concept for portrait, editorial and commercial work — replace every project and credit with verified studio content before launch.
Selected work
Series
Portrait · 2025
Quiet Light
A year of available-light portraits — strangers, neighbours, the people who sit still long enough to be seen.
Editorial · 2024
Harvest, Slow
A magazine commission shot over three seasons on one farm — light, labour and the long table at the end.
Commercial · 2025
Matter & Form
Product and still life for a design house — every object lit like a small, serious portrait.
Documentary · 2023
Coast Road
Two weeks following one stretch of shoreline — weather, fishermen and the grey hour before dawn.
Featured series
Harvest, Slow
Shot over three seasons on a single farm in the valley, this commission for a quarterly food magazine traded the studio for whatever light the day gave us. The result is a portrait of work — hands, weather, the long table where the season finally lands.
Client
Field Quarterly
Role
Photography
Year
2024
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Statement
A small studio led by Mara Okafor, working between the coast and the city since 2014.
We photograph for stillness, not spectacle — the held breath, the ordinary made strange by good light. A picture should reward a second look, and a tenth.
We shoot portrait, editorial and commercial work, but the approach is the same everywhere: slow, deliberate, on whatever light the day offers. We’d rather make twenty pictures we believe in than two hundred we don’t.
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