Laura Melo (she/her) is a film photographer born in Fortaleza (Brazil) but based in Lisbon. Most of her work is focused in street photography, but she also has an interest in portraiture, editorials and authoral projects.
Being an immigrant and a trans person, her main themes of interest are identity, marginalization, history and culture.
She uses exclusively film as medium for her work, incorporating it's features and idiossincracies into the photographic expression itself, in the form of expired film, home development and scanning, and more.