rightbank.studio

A photographic practice — Paris

The photographs I care about happen after the pose,
in the moment people return to themselves.

A long-term exploration of light, memory, people, and place. Organized as ongoing projects, personal studies, and written observations.

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Projects

Six bodies of work
In Your Eyes

Project I

In Your Eyes

Photography is always the world seen through the photographer's eyes. This project inverts that. With enough proximity, the iris reflects what a person is looking at. For a moment, the impossible becomes visible. These are photographs of what other people see.

Paris

Project II

Paris

Paris is an impossible time capsule. Within its famous uniformity there is extraordinary variation for those willing to look. The city is weathered without being worn down. Lived in without feeling neglected. Paris rewards attention like nowhere else. The closer you look, the more the city reveals.

Family Archives

Project III

Family Archives

Most family photographs are records of occasions. Family life is almost entirely the other 98%. This project is an attempt to photograph that. The unguarded moments that reveal how people actually occupy space. A successful image is one that a viewer, perhaps someone not yet born, will recognize something of themselves in. Not just a face. A presence, something familiar without knowing why.

Portraits

Project IV

Portraits

Most portraits today are documentary at best. Formal, staged, an idealized version of the subject presented for the record. I look for the moments between poses. This is where personality leaks out. Where the performance slips and something honest, occasionally vulnerable, becomes briefly visible.

The Careful Observers

Project V

The Careful Observers

The most technically precise camera equipment available today has the personality of a photocopier. This project explores a different idea. That grain, blur, overexposure, an unexpected crop or an uncomfortable proximity can carry more feeling than technical perfection ever will. The Leica III and the Sofort 2, ninety years apart, refuse to step aside. They participate in the image. That participation is where the unexpected lives.

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Project VI

Project VI

The Back Room

A catalogue asks nothing of the viewer. A conversation requires both people to bring something. This is not a catalogue. If you want to come in, knock. Share something that matters to you. A photograph, a project, an image you keep coming back to and cannot explain why. Let's see if there is anything to talk about.

Knock

Essays

Writing

Short reflections on observation, photography, memory, and the act of paying attention. Written alongside the work, not about it.

01 Why old photographs matter Coming
02 The moment after the pose Coming
03 Two cameras, ninety years apart Coming
04 What Paris rewards Coming
05 Seeing versus looking Coming

Essays are added as they are written. Slowly, when they are ready.

rightbank.studio

Leica M — Paris

About

Curiosity is
the practice.

rightbank.studio is a personal photographic practice based in Paris. Photography is not a profession here. It is a way of studying the world. A discipline of observation, memory, light, and place.

The work is organized around long-term projects rather than individual images. The goal is not recognition. It is understanding — of craft, of people, of what a photograph can carry that words cannot.

The essays and projects on this site are works in progress. They are shared because the process of making them is as interesting as the result.

Based Paris
Practice Portrait, street, archive, experimental
Equipment Leica — analog and digital
Prints Available on request

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a conversation.

For project inquiries, print requests, or collaboration. First contact is always a conversation, not a transaction.

Email hello@rightbank.studio Instagram @rightbank.studio Based in Paris