There is a kind of portrait that doesn't happen in studios, on Lisbon's blue-hour streets, or against the cinematic backdrop of Sintra's hills. It happens inside the buildings most people drive past without seeing — derelict villas in the Sintra range, faded estates along the Cilento coast, forgotten interiors the country has quietly let go of and that almost nobody knows are still standing.

I've been mapping those buildings for ten years. The archive now contains more than two hundred pinned locations across Portugal, Italy, and (more recently) southern Spain. About sixty are places I would actively bring a client to. The rest are too risky structurally, too compromised aesthetically, or too sensitive to share without first checking with the owners.

What I'm offering isn't a backdrop choice. It's a curated trip — a session that runs differently from a standard portrait shoot because it has to. We pick a location based on your brief, not the other way around. I plan the access, the weather window, the timing for the right light. 

We arrive together. We shoot for two to four hours inside a place that has been left alone for decades. You leave with a portrait that looks like a still from a film someone hasn't made yet.