La Dolce Vita • Editorial in Elegant Magazine • May 2017

Published editorial in online fashion magazine Elegant, issue 36, May 2017. You can purchase it both in digital and print versions at this link. Guys, I’ve been dyeing to share this with you for months! This is one of my favourite editorials to date – the dress collection, the hair & make-up, the perfect timing …

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#inmystudio with Damaris + new instagram account

Hi, guys! Missed me? 😀 I’m sorry I’ve been away for so long but there are some changes down the pipe regarding my website & blog and I just couldn’t keep up with everything going on in the past months. You probably noticed I recently split my instagram account posts in 2: anything portrait photography related goes …

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Something black, something white / photoshoot

Ups! Hope you’ll forgive me for skipping the last few weeks! I had a few articles planned to be published while on the road, I promise I really did, but oh well, life happened and I didn’t find the time to finish up any of the blog posts I started. But if you’ve been following my instagram, …

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Pastel haze / behind the scenes

It’s always a pleasure to photograph Gabriella Olar’s stunning dresses, I mean, look at this pastel pink beauty, how could you not fall in love with it at first sight? ♥ The initial idea was to shoot this set in the same location of the first capture because I liked the flowery hanging plant and …

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Editorial for Tales Magazine / January 2016

Update 2019: Tales Magazine has evolved and is now an online venue, continuing the journey they began 4 years ago. They also featured my “Ultraviolet” editorial again, which makes me extra happy! 🙂 Original post: Makes me so so so happy and proud to see my work published! It’s one of the main reasons that …

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“Edem” flamenca collection // Spain 2014

flamenca fashion by maria avila

While looking through last year’s photoshoots I stumbled into two lovely editorials I had the chance to shoot while in Spain and realized I never got the chance to write about them on the blog. So what a better time than now, when this year’s season of ferias is fastly approaching? Both of them feature …

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Manuela // window photoshoot

through the window photoshoot

Hola chic@s! ^_^ Finally, this one’s my last photoshoot of 2014 with beautiful Manuela – you should already know her from my earlier photos. Something simple, shooting through a window, while freezing myself out in the cold and struggling with a stupid polarizing filter (that I ended up not using anyway). All natural light. I …

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