My name is Cláudio Albuquerque. Grain and Gaze is where I photograph the way I see: slowly, truthfully, and with care. This is an analog-only practice—rooted in intimacy, imperfection, and presence.

Based in Berlin and open to traveling wherever care and connection are alive, I work with people whose relationships, families, and identities move outside the expected frame. I photograph love in all its forms: bold, quiet, evolving. That includes weddings, couple sessions, intimate portraits, chosen families, private ceremonies, and community gatherings. My work is grounded in tenderness, honesty, and emotional clarity.

Alongside this, I also collaborate on creative and cultural projects that carry heart—food and spaces that tell a story, fashion and editorial work with vision, music scenes alive with pulse and movement, documentary traces of protest and resistance, and conceptual projects that ask deeper questions. These moments may take many shapes, but they share the same thread: real people, raw beauty, and the desire to leave behind something that matters.