Common kingfisher perched on a weathered post
Wildlife · Street · Film & Darkroom

Patience, light, and what's easy to miss.

Photography by Uri Raphael — wild animals in their own time, city streets in passing, and prints made the slow way, in the darkroom.

Selected work

A running field notebook, not a finished set.

Kingfisher portrait
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Three ways of paying attention

Wildlife work means waiting — for a kingfisher to turn its head, for a hummingbird to hold still, for the light to be worth it. Most of the job happens before the shutter ever clicks.

Street photography is the opposite instinct: quick, unplanned, trusting what's already in front of you. Darkroom printing slows everything back down again — every frame processed and printed by hand.

WildlifeField observation, long lenses, early mornings
StreetUnposed, black and white, 35mm
DarkroomHand-developed and printed film

Prints, bookings, and new sightings

For print inquiries, shoots, or just to see where the next roll of film goes — reach out directly or follow along.