The Studio

The person behind the wall.

Ada Renard makes portraits and landscapes on film and prints them by hand — small editions, warm-toned, meant to be hung.

I came to photography through the darkroom, not the phone. What kept me was the slowness — the way a plate camera makes you decide what matters before the light does. I work mostly at the edges of the day, when a place stops performing and simply is.

My work is portrait and landscape in equal measure: faces given the same patience as fields. Everything is shot on film and printed by hand in the studio, in editions small enough that each print stays an object, not a file.

I show a few times a year and take a handful of commissions each season. If a wall of yours is waiting for something made slowly, we should talk.

The photographer standing by a studio window, holding a medium-format film camera, prints pinned to a board behind The ArtistPortrait · 4:5
The Studio Ada Renard Providence, RI
Selected Exhibitions

Where the work has hung.

2026 Field Notes solo show Kiln Wharf Gallery
2025 Faces & Fields two-person Atelier Nord, Oslo
2024 Rooms We Kept group The Print Room, London
2023 Off Season debut Harbour Light Space
Commissioned by

A few of the people I've made work for.

  • The Paper Review
  • Field & Fold
  • Northlight Editions
  • Harbourmaster Hotels
  • Slowform Magazine
  • The Orchard Trust
Commissions

Bring a wall to the work.

Booking Spring 2026 — two sittings left