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Woman in an Aztec-print jacket and jeans leans against a weathered plaster wall beside a green wooden door in hard sunlight

editorial · Portugal · 2025

Sun on the Old Walls

A sunlit city stroll shaped by aged surfaces, saturated color, negative space, and the quiet confidence of being observed in motion.

Opening

The city and its surfaces

Woman leans against a large perforated pink sculpture on wavy black-and-white mosaic pavement in a European square

Mosaic pavement, plaster over stone, paint over plaster — a city that wears its age in layers.

Chapter one

Doorways

Woman in an Aztec-print jacket and jeans leans against a weathered plaster wall beside a green wooden door in hard sunlight

Chapter two

Light and wardrobe

Woman leans back on an aged stone-and-plaster wall in bright sun, dark hair falling over an Aztec-print jacket
Woman in an Aztec-print jacket glances down while walking beneath a colorful canopy on a European shopping street

Closing

A quiet frame

Close portrait of a woman with head tilted back against a sunlit plaster wall, holding sunglasses near her chin

Note

Travel work, not tourist work: the walls get as much of the frame as the subject.

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