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Steven Enis

Headshots, models, and commercial spaces — photographed with an unforced eye.

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About

Whatever catches the eye earns a frame.

Steven Enis is a photographer working across portraits, fashion, and commercial spaces. He shoots headshots that look like the person on their best ordinary day, models and lookbooks with a natural edge, and interiors and brand work that need to feel like somewhere real — on location, worldwide.

The instinct behind it was built on the street: reading light on the move, and catching the moment that only happens once. That same eye goes into every commission — unforced, quick, and honest to whoever, or whatever, is in front of the lens.

Steven Enis

How I work

Direction

At ease

Quick to read a room and easy to shoot with, so people loosen up and the frame looks like them — not a pose.

Light

As found

Works with the light that's there and shapes it when a shoot needs it — flattering for faces, honest for spaces.

Timing

The moment

A street-trained sense for the frame that only happens once, brought to every brief and deadline.

On location in

Portfolio

Grouped by palette — black & white, blue hour, sun-faded, and gold — with the people work kept together. New frames go up as they're made.

Black & white 04 · Tokyo, Hong Kong
A near-empty zebra crossing before a karaoke building, black and white, Shibuya, Tokyo
Frame 01Shibuya, Tokyo
A hand-lettered 'don't drink on the street' sign on a fluted column, black and white, Shibuya
Frame 02Shibuya, Tokyo
A vintage Mercedes coupe parked on a Hong Kong street, black and white
Frame 03Hong Kong
A double-decker bus on a misty Hong Kong avenue below the peak, black and white
Frame 04Hong Kong
People 06 · Portraits
Two men at night, one drawing on a cigarette, close black-and-white double portrait
Frame 05Late night
A man in a cardigan seated on a dim staircase, full-length black-and-white portrait
Frame 06Stairwell
A woman in a black top glancing to the side in soft indoor light, black-and-white portrait
Frame 07At home
A singer laughing into the mic and pointing to the crowd at a small live show, black and white
Frame 08Live show
A man in a white shirt pouring three pour-over coffees, black and white, Tokyo
Frame 09Tokyo, Japan
A woman in a kimono holding a lace fan before a temple wall and garden, black and white, Kyoto, Japan
Frame 10Kyoto, Japan
Blue hour 03 · Japan
A lone figure passing a glowing izakaya storefront at night, Shibuya, Tokyo
Frame 11Shibuya, Tokyo
A tuned blue coupe at a night car meet under Shibuya's towers, Tokyo
Frame 12Shibuya, Tokyo
Blue-lit street cars beside Tokyu Plaza at night, Shibuya, Tokyo
Frame 13Shibuya, Tokyo
Sun-faded 08 · Spain, France, Portugal
Crowds on the mosaic staircase below the columned hall at Park Guell, Barcelona
Frame 14Park Guell, Barcelona
A man checks his phone against a graffiti wall in a plant-filled Trastevere alley, Rome
Frame 15Trastevere, Rome
Gaudi's mosaic gatehouse rising above the crowds at Park Guell, Barcelona
Frame 16Park Guell, Barcelona
Pastel apartment blocks stacked up a Lisbon hillside above a noodle shop, Portugal
Frame 17Lisbon, Portugal
Colourful festival bunting casting geometric shadows over a Madrid street, Spain
Frame 18Lavapies, Madrid
Customers at the counter of an open-fronted butcher shop, Tokyo, Japan
Frame 19Tokyo, Japan
Sunbathers and umbrellas on a golden cove below jungle-covered hills, Thailand
Frame 20Phuket, Thailand
Swimmers and sunbathers on a pebble beach beside a turquoise bay, Villefranche-sur-Mer
Frame 21Villefranche-sur-Mer
Gold & amber 07 · Portugal, France, Japan
Sun umbrellas scattered across a golden Algarve beach below ochre cliffs, Portugal
Frame 22Praia da Rocha, Algarve
Beachgoers among towering golden rock stacks on an Algarve beach, Portugal
Frame 23Algarve, Portugal
A yellow baroque church tower above sunlit ochre walls, Menton, France
Frame 24Menton, France
A yellow-awninged perfume stall in warm afternoon light, Menton, France
Frame 25Menton, France
The Golden Pavilion mirrored in its pond and framed by autumn maple, Kyoto, Japan
Frame 26Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto
Vermilion tiers of a wooden pagoda against a pale sky, Kyoto, Japan
Frame 27Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
Rows of vermilion torii gates inscribed with black calligraphy, Fushimi Inari, Kyoto
Frame 28Fushimi Inari, Kyoto

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