© 2026 francisco Braga

the dialogue between

on painting with light

serena

the walk-in pinhole camera 
 
    A slow, ancient process that pioneered all modes of contemporary photography, now framed in a context of collaborative participation, and attempt at broadening its conventional limits. Experiencing the “magic” of how a simple pinhole can project a living, upside-down image into a darkened space, as well as all the abstract, unseen subtleties of this phenomena will serve as a starting point for understanding one’s intention and connection with Light.

    Guided through a basic analogue development process, each person turns one of these moments into a black-and-white “light painting”, and leaves with a new understanding of how images are born from the most elementary physics of light.




















Teglholmsgade

Copenhagen, Denmark
memoir of Auri’s living room in Sydhavn
câmara Serena II - 2025
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collaboration w/ Aurelien Lerouge










Lersøparken

Copenhagen, Denmark
light-painting - 2025
contribution to Tipping Point’s fundraiser event w/ Lågendeltaets Venner








Light Shadows of Serenity

the dialogue between matter and psyche
 
    Through this spatio-photographic process, we explore the importance of nature-first designs in works of architecture that aim at improving the patient’s well-being, as a indispensable foundation for their therapeutic recovery. 

    We do that by capturing some invisible (yet present) spatial qualities, that affect the user’s inner preception of external reality - in this case, the clinical space provided by architecture for their mental health treatment.


câmara Serena I - 2023
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art-based research for a master thesis in architecture








_ on-going _




Friluftssykehuset

Kristiansand, Norway
Snøhetta


Capela do Monte

Lagos / Algarve, Portugal
Álvaro Siza