Richard CoelhoCreative Director
Photography / Selected work

People. Places. A point of view.

Commissioned portraits and campaigns alongside personal observations of people, places and movement.

Context
Photography
My role
Photographer
Scope
Photography, lighting, image treatment and photographic delivery.

The eye behind the direction

Photography is part of how I understand a brief: where the attention goes, what the light communicates, and how a moment becomes a story. Working behind the camera also shapes how I brief and lead other creative people.

Commissioned photography

Portraits and campaign photography for VIBE, Gary Barlow / Benchmark Drinks and Blasted Mechanism.

Portrait against red architecture, with warm rim light.
VIBE — red architectural portrait
Portrait against a bright blue sky with a dark blurred foreground.
VIBE — blue sky portrait
Gary Barlow seated with a glass of wine in a warmly lit interior.
Gary Barlow / Benchmark Drinks
Studio group portrait of Blasted Mechanism against white.
Blasted Mechanism

AVO / Fashion portraits

A fashion portrait series built around hats, character and an industrial setting. Wide environmental compositions sit alongside intimate details, with colour and shape connecting the sequence.

Man in a white suit and red hat beside industrial machinery
AVO — red hat, white suit
Seated woman in a hat and flowing red dress in an industrial space
AVO — seated portrait
Close portrait of a woman wearing a sculptural green hat and sunglasses
AVO — green hat
Woman in a black suit and red hat holding an open fan
AVO — the fan

Portraits & presence

A quieter series, built around the relationship between a person, their surroundings and the available light.

A seated woman beside a textured wall, photographed in black and white.
Portrait in window light
A woman carrying a bowl on her head beside the sea, photographed in black and white.
Portrait by the sea
A pupil looking toward the camera across a classroom, photographed in black and white.
Classroom

Street & everyday life

Small gestures and passing moments, photographed through colour, framing and timing.

Passengers riding together in a yellow and green auto-rickshaw.
India — in transit
A woman carrying a pink bundle walks beside a blue passenger train.
India — platform
A person rests beside a railing overlooking a blue-toned street.
Japan — a pause
Two passengers sit back to back across a divider on a train.
Japan — on the train

Colour, space & movement

Personal studies in shape, atmosphere and motion, combining digital photographs and analogue scans.

Two closed parasols and a lounger on an almost empty beach.
Beach study
Visitors stand beside a reflecting pool beneath an open grey sky.
India — reflection
A skateboarder silhouetted against a violet and peach evening sky.
Skate at dusk
A skateboard and feet crossing geometric shadows on a ramp in black and white.
Light & movement
Young players challenge for a football, seen through a wire fence.
Football, through the fence

Photography credit

Photography, lighting and photographic image treatment: Richard Coelho. The photographs retain their existing treatment and framing. Client, fashion and artwork rights remain with their respective owners.

Next selected projectInvest Lisboa / Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Lisbon, through its creative energy