Peryvo

Documentary photography & film — Est. 2014

Lisbon · Working worldwide

Seen slowly,shot true.

Documentary photography and film for people who prefer the real moment.

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Booking 2027 · 3 slots left

Commissioned by Harbour Review, Atlas Quarterly & Salt Press

Peryvo 400 — Frame 01A

Kalk Bay, South Africa · 35 mm

Fog drifting over sea stacks on a grey northern coast, shot on 35 mm black-and-white film

02 — Statement

A small documentary practice. We shoot on film, travel light and listen longer than we talk — so every picture holds what the moment actually felt like.

12

Years on the road

31

Countries, mostly coastal

2,480

Rolls developed by hand

1

Darkroom in Lisbon

03 — Selected series

Five rolls we keep coming back to.

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Two wooden fishing boats pulled onto wet sand at low tide, seen from above

A stallholder smoking beneath hanging produce at a night market

Old family photographs scattered across a table beside a film camera

01 / 05 — 36 frames · Tri-X 400

Salt & Diesel

Kalk Bay, South Africa · 2025View series

Hands holding a medium format film camera at waist level

Roll 112, frame 36 — loading the Hasselblad

04 — Method

Three steps, no shortcuts.

01A

Scout

We spend the first days without a camera — walking, drinking coffee, learning names. The story usually finds us before the light does.

02A

Shoot

Two rangefinders, a few rolls of Tri-X and nobody directing traffic. We work quietly, in natural light, with a crew of two.

03A

Develop

Every roll is developed and printed by hand in our Lisbon darkroom. You receive scans, a full contact sheet and twelve fibre prints.

05 — Index

Every roll, in order.

06 — Voices

What people remember afterwards.

“They spent three days in the harbour before taking a single picture. By the time the camera came out, nobody noticed it any more.”

Inês Calado

Photo editor, Harbour Review

“The prints arrived in a hand-stamped box with a contact sheet of every roll. Our board still passes it around.”

Daniel Achterberg

Head of brand, Atlas Quarterly

“They photographed my grandmother’s ninetieth birthday. It’s the first time our family looks like itself in a picture.”

Sofia Mendes

Private commission, Porto

07 — Contact sheet

Frames that missed the edit — but shouldn’t have.

A fisherman in a knitted hat resting on the shore — Joaquim after the night catch04A

A man in a flat cap fishing from a harbour wall — Harbour wall, early tide22A

Passengers waiting in a long underground station corridor — Underpass, rush hour15A

Rickshaws and pedestrians crowding a market street after dark — Closing hour, Old Quarter11A

A hand holding two vintage group photographs against a dark wall — Two summers, 1961 and 197407A

A dark coastal cliff dropping steeply to a pale beach — The cliff road, Madeira02A

Stacked concrete balconies forming a rhythm of horizontal lines — Balconies, Barbican19A

A lone traveller waiting on the platform at Padova station — Waiting for the 06:1231A

The arched iron roof of a busy railway station hall with blurred travellers

08 — Next frame

Let’s make the next frame.

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