Portrait & editorial photography
Adrian Voss
Selected work
Four recent plates — portraits, editorial commissions and the quieter studies between them.
Sitters, Vol. I
Sitters, Vol. II
Freckles & Grain
Kammer Magazin, Cover Story
About the studio
I photograph people the light almost misses. Most of my work happens in a small Berlin studio with one lamp, a black backdrop and enough patience to wait for the face nobody performs.
Clients come to me for portraits that feel closer to paintings than headshots — and editorial work that keeps that same stillness on a deadline.
— Adrian
- Based in Berlin, DE
- Practice Independent, since 2016
- Focus Low-key portrait & editorial
- Currently Booking autumn sittings
Ways of working
Every engagement starts the same way: a short conversation about what the pictures are for — and whether my kind of darkness suits them.
Commissioned portraits
from €450A private sitting in the Kreuzberg studio — one lamp, no hurry.
Editorial & campaigns
day rateCovers, lookbooks and stage portraits, delivered on deadline.
Prints & editions
from €120Signed baryta prints of selected frames, proofed by hand.
Ongoing series
Personal work between commissions — the slow projects that keep the eye honest.
Series 01
Half in Shadow
Faces lit by a single source, printed almost black.
Series 02
Upward Light
What a face does when the light comes from below the frame.
Series 03
The Long Exposure
Sittings that last an hour so a second can feel unguarded.
The ledger
Independent since a borrowed flat in 2016
Most of them in one small dark room
Magazines, labels and two theatre houses
The prints leave the studio now and then
What sitters say
Commissions & sittings