Photograffiti
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Full-length look against concrete stairwell

Mara Oduya

Verified

Toronto · Editorial

Shoots editorial the way printers proof pages: available light, one roll at a time, nothing fixed later that can be fixed now. Found her look in Toronto stairwells and never fully left them.

Response < 3 h 38 shoots
Monochrome portrait in a stairwell, single figure, high contrast
PLATE 01 Portra 800 pushed one stop · 35mm · available light
Seated model in structured coat, grain visible in the shadows
PLATE 02 Tri-X at 400 · 50mm · window light, north wall
Beauty crop, wet-look hair, catchlight square in the eye
PLATE 03 Digital medium format · one head, white sweep · retouch in camera only
Model crossing an empty intersection, coat caught mid-swing
PLATE 04 HP5 at 1600 · 28mm · last light on Spadina

Selected clients

  • Sable Studio
  • Meridian Magazine
  • Hiver
  • Northlight

In the bag

  • Pentax 67 · Portra 800, pushed when the light drops
  • Digital medium format for beauty days
  • One head, one white sweep, no third light

Editor's notes

She shot the whole lookbook in a stairwell and it still reads couture.

— Danielle Wong, creative director, sable studio

Selects arrived in 48 hours, sequenced. We ran the set unchanged.

— Tomás Ferreira, photo editor, meridian magazine