Close-up of a face lit by orange light

Portraits

Noor Haddad

Studio, Lisbon

Client

Author portraits

Location

Studio, Lisbon

Year

2026

Category

Portraits

A quiet hour in the studio for a novelist who hates having her picture taken. She liked these.

Ninety minutes and a pot of tea

Noor needed new portraits for her second novel and told us on the phone that she had never liked a photo of herself. We started by not taking any. We talked about the book, made tea and let the north light do the rest.

Her publisher chose the cover image within an hour of seeing the gallery.

What we delivered

24 retouched portraits, press crops and a black and white set for festival programmes.

Woman looking over her shoulder at dusk
Woman with wet hair and closed eyes
Woman in a white blouse covering one eye
Young man in a green jacket in golden light
Woman looking over her shoulder at dusk
Woman in a white blouse covering one eye
Woman with wet hair and closed eyes
Young man in a green jacket in golden light

credits

The people who made it.

Publisher Casa Azul Books · Makeup Lia Martins

Woman with freckles resting her arms on a ledge
Couple walking hand in hand at dusk

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