Photography Studio · Est. 2014
Prism makes pictures
that hold still.
A photography studio working in portrait, editorial and commercial light — for people and brands who want images that age slowly.
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.
In their words
“Mara sees the picture before it happens. We’ve shot three covers with the studio now and every frame feels patient, certain — never forced.”
Lena Park
Photo Editor, Field Quarterly
Available for commissions
Tell us about the picture you need.
Portrait, editorial or commercial — we’d love to hear what you’re making.