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Photographer and writer specialised in portraiture • Taking portraits | Talking portraits

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Anna-Lisa Smith by Rino Pucci
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Anna-Lisa Smith

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Portrait photographer & videomaker | Manchester | A book in the making @_when.in.manchester

Rino Pucci
There is a subtle pleasure in digging up an old ha There is a subtle pleasure in digging up an old hard drive and looking through past portrait sessions.
Take this portrait I made of Harry May, a while ago. I remember very little about its circumstances – it might have been taken during a workshop I attended.
What does this portrait tell me today? Was Harry holding it still as instructed, or had I managed to catch one of those unanticipated moments “in between”? The truth is – it doesn’t matter.

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Writer and curator David Campany has written at length about the intrinsic ambiguity of photographic images:
“Photographs have a way of covering their traces – when you look at a photograph, it’s often hard to know how it was made or why it was made, and that produces an anxiety. So people often want to know that and think that that’s the meaning.”
This is also true for the photographer himself.

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I mainly work on commissioned portraits, which means that mostly I need to look at them almost straightaway – clients require them as soon as possible. But whenever it is possible – test sessions, personal projects like books, etc. – I leave the photos to age. I like looking at them months later and listening to the right music in my headphones that takes me somewhere else. A different era, a different mindset. Sometimes the magic happens: I can see these images as if they were taken by someone else.

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I am a photographer based in Manchester and, as you might have guessed, I specialise in portraiture. I’ve helped many talented people – actors and musicians, dancers and writers, composers and models – show their true selves in portraits.
Every sitter is unique, and so is every portrait session. I believe that a real emotional connection, even a short one, is the key to authentic portraiture – which is much more than striking a pose.

Are you going to be my next sitter?

© Rino Pucci 2025
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An autumn morning | Portrait of Aimen Jahangir, b An autumn morning |  Portrait of Aimen Jahangir, by Rino Pucci |  in Lostock

Rino writes ✒️:

There are so many great quotes about autumn. My favourite is by Emily Brontë :

“Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.
I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night’s decay
Ushers in a drearier day.”

It sounds like a gentle reminder that change is not only inevitable but can be beautiful, like the light that changes, leaving the harshness of summer behind and embracing the softness of autumn – which, for a photographer, is pure bliss.
Actress, writer and public speaker Johanna Thea | Actress, writer and public speaker Johanna Thea | 

I had the great pleasure to meet Johanna a while ago and I still have fond memories of when we worked together.
It’s Johanna’s birthday week 🎂 and I thought of celebrating this by mentioning that she is doing an amazing job as a professional speaker on wellbeing and resilience.

This week, she is introducing a livestreaming freedom series for anyone wanting to ask questions about being a professional actress, published author, and columnist. I warmly suggest checking her profile for more details!
Playing with light — my favourite game. Feat. Ma Playing with light — my favourite game.
Feat. Mante G
“Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light.” Alan Brennert, Moloka'i |  Portrait of
Miles Lucien-Walters by Rino Pucci
There was a soft and pensive grace, A cast of thou There was a soft and pensive grace,
A cast of thought upon her face,
That suited well the forehead high,
The eyelash dark, and downcast eye.
(Sir Walter Scott) 

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Diana Christine Keller  |   Portrait by Rino Pucci 

This portrait is from the book PROPERTY. a multi-layered tactile photo thriller I curated and published in 2023.
PROPERTY. is a site-responsive art project, where a photographer-writer (me) and a model artist have explored (and have been inspired by) a building currently living on borrowed time, as it will be demolished soon. The book also features short stories and poems written by 11 wordsmiths in response to photos they were sent without any information about the context where the images were taken or the person portrayed.
As many of you know, I am working on my second book, When in Manchester: please head to @_when.in.manchester to know all about it!
© Rino Pucci 2025
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