A conversation
We talk about what the pictures should hold — a person, a room, a table — and whether a sitting is even the right thing. No mood boards. A short letter is enough.
A note
Made for the archive,
not the feed.
Mira Chen keeps a small personal practice: portraits of people she already knows, rooms that hold a day’s last light, and still lifes arranged from whatever is already on the table. The pictures are fictional in this demonstration — a brand invented to show how a quiet studio might look online — but the tone is the point.
There is no commercial roster here, and no list of honors. The work is limited on purpose. A few sittings each year, usually in one place, usually in the hour when the windows do most of the work. Prints are made in short editions for the people in them, and a handful stay in the studio books.
If you are looking for a campaign, a large event, or a rapid turnaround, this is the wrong room. If you want a slow sitting and a small edit, write.
Write to the studioHow a sitting goes
Three steps, and then we stop.
A sitting
Available light, unhurried, usually one location. Two hours at most. Clothes you already own. The camera stays quiet; so does the direction.
A small edit
A handful of pictures, not a gallery of hundreds. Proofs first, then a short set of prints. The rest of the files stay in the book and are not published as a default.