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Portraits & family — Photography — 2025
Low Tide
An editorial essay on the coast in winter — fog, empty piers and the people who still walk out to meet the water.
- Client
- Salt Magazine
- Role
- Photographer
- Location
- Atlantic coast, Portugal
- Year
- 2025
- Kit
- Leica Q3

( Brief & approach )
Salt asked for a twelve-page photo essay for their winter issue with a single brief: “the coast nobody visits in January.”
I spent three weeks walking the same stretch of Atlantic coastline at low tide, mostly before nine in the morning when the fog was still sitting on the water. I shot on one fixed lens so the whole story would share a single point of view.
The essay ran as the issue’s opening feature, with the cover frame chosen for the magazine’s annual print edition.
- Editor
- Clara Sousa, Salt Magazine
- Words
- Rui Matos








