Mira Halden
Documentary photographer based in Lisbon, working wherever the story is.
I grew up in a flat above my father’s photo lab in Porto, which means I learned the smell of fixer before I learned to ride a bike.
After ten years at a daily newspaper — elections, floods, football, the occasional royal visit — I started photographing weddings for friends. It turned out a wedding is just the best kind of news story: real people, real stakes and no second takes.
Today I split my year between weddings, portrait commissions and one long personal project. Everything is edited by me, printed by me, and delivered with a handwritten note.
Slow is a decision. So is kindness.
- Years behind the camera
- 15
- Weddings documented
- 212
- Countries
- 23
- Rolls developed
- 1.4k
Simple tools, used daily
I carry less every year. What remains fits in one shoulder bag and never gets in the way of a conversation.
- Bodies
- Leica M10-R · Nikon Z8
- Lenses
- 28 · 35 · 50 · 85 mm primes
- Film
- Kodak Tri-X 400, Ilford HP5
- Darkroom
- Fibre prints, selenium toned
- Light
- Daylight, one bare bulb, patience
Awards & press
- 2025Fearless Photographers — Top 10 Europe
- 2024World Press Photo — Long-term Projects, shortlist
- 2023Kinfolk — “Ten Tables”, 12-page feature
- 2021Solo show “Silver Grain”, Galeria Pente 10, Lisbon
Let’s make something worth keeping.
Weddings, portraits and documentary commissions. Tell me the date and the story — I’ll reply within two working days.