Rei Photography

Transitioning into photography meant stepping into a new creative field and a new creative community. I was fortunate. The lovely sent me info about .co and within a few weeks, I was fortunate enough to meet , and . I can’t express just how grateful I am that they have established this community. And am so excited for the opportunity to show my work REMNANT featuring the magnificent , featuring the Designs of .

A special thank you to .co, , , and for their support.

I’m drawn to red (or variations thereof). There’s something about its honesty, its quiet fire. When arrived in that shade, I saw autumn in him. It wasn’t the season, not quite. Rather a feeling. The soft burn before everything turns cold. When Favour stepped in front of my lens, he carried an energy that we photographers thrive in. Favour was warm and grounded. His boldness could be felt in every frame. He turned my favorite red into a feeling that I want to capture again and again. Thank you for providing the space for we creatives to meet and feel alive on a cloudy day when one season was passing into another.

I shoot by feeling. The day of the content meet up was split between clouds and sun, and I chose to live in the gray. There was something about that cold light. How it made the warmth of a hat —a stacked beanie— mean more. This shoot with was my way of invoking the chill of a winter to come and the clothes we humans need to survive it. A moment of finding beauty in the in-between.

Self Portrait

As soon as I saw the gold of the dress meeting the golden blonde of her hair, the direction was undeniable. The shoot became a vision of a goddess, radiant and unearthly, moving through the garden as if it had grown for her alone. I leaned into warmth again, softening the light until it glowed, and pushed the greens into a lushness beyond the natural. The result is not simply a portrait, but an atmosphere. It culminated in an image where gold and green entwine, a world suspended in its own spell.

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For these final images, I shifted course. The pull this time was warmth. I embraced the greens in a form closer to their natural state. I raised the temperature, letting the tones swell and soften, not chasing radiance but something quieter. The colors became less about brightness and more about a haze that lingers in the air on the hottest of days (because trust me, it was HOT). In the reflection of silver sunglasses, the eyes are obscured, yet the ease remains. For me, this edit is not a spectacle of light, but the feeling of an afternoon slowed to its own rhythm, the languid drift of a lazy summer day.

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*Featured Artwork at the Dancer’s Unlimited Building on Governor’s Island*