Photographer Overview
Rio Blake is a young, acclaimed, female documentary & portrait photographer, based in North West London.
'Rio’s bread and butter tends to be corporate events and club photography, although she’s netted some big-name projects with the likes of Adidas & Sky Arts. But the real meat of what she does is street photography. Like only a Londoner can, she sums up our city by capturing not landmarks, but daily lives. A gaggle of girls on a hen-do sporting pink bunny ears block a street in Shoreditch. A Turnpike Lane butcher wearing his white coat stands solemnly in his shop window. Teenagers in low slung jeans sit high up on railings. Delighted dancers decked out with plumes of lilac feathers shake their stuff at Notting Hill carnival; one holds her iPhone, the other a takeaway food box, as though to remind us that this perfect shot was not set up.
Rio’s ability to catch our inhabitants in their most natural state has a documentary precision. So expert is her eye, so emotional are her portraits – the joyous abandon of the grinning dancers, the hopelessness of the greying butcher – that you almost recognise the subjects. You feel like you’ve seen them before. Sometimes you’re sure you know what they’re thinking.'
Rio's images reveal an intimacy between subject and photographer, which can be seen across all areas of her work. Rio has a clear understanding of different styles in photography, with 5+ years experience in various fields, ranging from fashion to food; emphasised by her main love for portraiture and street photography.
Clients Include:
Sky Arts, Adidas, Fletcher Priest Architects & Many More