Mara Okafor holding a medium format film camera in her Brooklyn studio Est. 2016

The photographer — Brooklyn, NY

Behind
the lens

I photograph the quiet seconds between events — a fisherman coiling rope before dawn, a dancer alone with the dust. Ten years, four continents, and a bag of film cameras that have survived three monsoons and one very unhappy camel.

Every frame here was shot on film and printed by hand. No presets, no composites — just patience, latitude, and light.