Editorial fashion portrait shot against a warm tungsten studio backdrop.
No. 25 / Iris / Fine-art photography
Light, developed slowly.
Marlowe Cassar — editorial and portrait photographer, working between London and Lisbon. Here the frames don’t cut; they develop into one another the way a print rises in the bath — patient, chemical, deliberate. The image you’re watching resolve is the method.
Editorial · Vogue Italia · Milan, 2025
Published in
Selected tearsheets, 2023–2025
Selected work / Nos. 01–03
Three rooms in the archive.
The work is filed by intent, not by client. Each room keeps its own emulsion — the develop transition is tuned to that series’ grain. Open a door and it rises in the bath above.
Tideline · neg. 12 · Cais do Sodré, Lisbon — 06:42, January 2025
Featured series · long-form
Tideline — twelve mornings on the Tagus.
Twelve dawns, one tide, a single roll of 6×7 each morning. Shot through a single winter from the same stone quay, waiting for the river to give back the light.
The develop transition you watched in the hero is not a stock effect — its displacement map was scanned from this series’ own negatives. A fine, slow silver halide that resolves in irregular blooms rather than a clean wipe; what you see fix on screen is Tideline’s grain, authored.
Emulsion Fomapan 100, selenium-toned · the same halide field drives the hero develop front
- Format
- 6×7 medium
- Edition
- 12 prints
- Process
- Hand-developed
- Fibre, 16×20″
4 of 12 remaining · enquire for the portfolio
Services & rates
Available from March 2026Spring commissions open · two slots left
A rate card, set like a contact sheet.
- Editorial day rateFull day on location or in studio, 10 hours, two assistants, a graded edit of 40 frames.Delivery in 7 days · print + digital usage quoted per title2,400/ day
- Portrait sessionHalf day, single look, available or studio light, 12 hand-retouched frames delivered.Delivery in 5 days · personal & editorial use included780/ session
- Product / still lifePer day in the studio with full lighting and a stylist on call; tabletop and tactile work.Delivery in 10 days · commercial usage negotiated separately1,650/ day
A 30% deposit secures the date · travel beyond Greater London billed at cost · rush turnaround on request. Tell me what you want developed.
Marlowe shoots like a printer thinks. The image arrives already graded — there was nothing left for us to do but place it.
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Send the brief — edit, campaign, sitting or a print run of your own. I read every line and reply with a treatment, a timeline and a fixed quote.
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- Licensing
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- Based
- London & Lisbon