His work seems to tell a story, in its essence focusing on a defining moment – captured in the right instant. Robert Nil Reed expands and questions with his intimate and fragile yet powerful pictures both youth and perfection as the common notion of beauty. His protagonists appear mostly natural and hardly made-up, his photographs barely processed. Still Robert’s work represents a homage to beauty – without exaggerating it to extremes.

Leica Gallery I Rua Sá da Bandeira, 48-52 I 4000-427 Porto I Portugal (until March 30th 2019 I Monday - Saturday 10am - 7pm)

Born in the Styrian town of Feldbach (Austria) in 1975, Robert moved to Vienna over a decade ago to work as a freelance photographer. In his work he not only fuses the art of photography with the sensitivity of the human nature, but rather conserves emotions captured in a magical moment. Over the course of his creative career he consequently reduced his imagery, focusing on the narrative power of his models’ eye-contact....