Leah Lewis Instagram – October 2025 – First stop, Lisbon – Contax y NikonFE // Portra400
Three places, divided. Lisbon, first. I was surprised to see in hindsight how my photos reflected the state of mind I was in. The way the light fights with the dark, the choice of what to shoot. I started trigger heavy in this city and moved to not even pulling the camera out anymore at all by the end of the trip in London.
During one of the darkest times, both weather wise and emotionally, Lisbon ended up being the place that my lense fixated on the most, yet it flew by like a blur. It was one of the rainiest trips imaginable, but the light still found a way to peek out at the end of each day with patience. Lugging the camera around was worth it at the final hour of each day. When I got back from this trip, I was so excited to see all of the gems I had captured in other places, just to find out that I came up so short in the other cities. I SWORE I took more, because I REMEMBER more. It was the opposite. The retina and heart caught it all instead and that’s enough “capture” for me. Photographing vs merely witnessing are both valuable, but it spoke so much volume to my journey with using the camera, being safe behind it almost, to then pocketing it when I actually felt absolutely free.
You’d think that Lisbon was the most beloved of all based off of the photos, but it was the moments that I ignored shooting on the rest of trip that gave me the most creative fulfillment. That’s the shot right there for this one: the story. | Posted on 18/Dec/2025 03:44:14
