Photographs of aircraft and airports, made slowly — at the perimeter fence, on the apron and in the long hours after dark. Each one is printed to order in Portugal and supplied unframed, ready for the wall it was chosen for.
When the departures board empties, the apron changes character. Floodlights throw hard white pools across the concrete, star-shaped glints bloom from the masts, and the aircraft that were simply parked an hour ago become…
Closer in: the spiral on an engine spinner, the curve of a nose cone, the painted name beneath a cockpit window, the stencilled letters on a nose-gear door. These details reward a second look…
Without colour, aviation becomes a matter of line, tone and weather. A superjumbo rolls beneath a towering sky, an engine's spinner spirals into its fan, a widebody rests against the grid of a glass…
Weather is the co-star here. Heavy grey cloud presses down on climbing jets, a marsh turns vivid green under a storm-dark sky, and a lagoon flashes silver behind a landing airliner. These are photographs…
Low sun turns aluminium into brass. This small collection holds the moments when the light did the composing: an approach flown straight through an amber sky, an airliner rolling past runway lights as the…
Negative space, a single subject and very little else. A jet appears head-on out of the haze; another climbs into an empty dusk; a light jet taxis alone across a dark apron. Restrained compositions…
Jorge Alexandre Pereira photographs aviation from the Algarve, in the south of Portugal. His pictures come from waiting: for the light to turn, for the apron to fall quiet, for an aircraft to line up exactly where the frame needs it.
Up to four sizes. Two layouts. One price per size.
Choose full bleed, where the photograph runs to the edge of the sheet, or a white border of exactly one centimetre on every side. Both layouts cost the same, and every print is supplied unframed.