Luca Ortis is a London-based visual artist working with experimental photography, with a background in traditional Japanese tattooing. His practice is influenced by Japanese folklore, pictorialism, and Chinese landscape painting. He sees photography as a way to honour and connect with nature.
These visual traditions inform a way of seeing that favours suggestion over assertion, where ambiguity is held with intention. Surfaces remain open, gestures incomplete—leaving space for memory, uncertainty, and the viewer’s own encounter. Each image carries a sense of quiet repair: not the restoration of what’s lost, but the recognition of what remains.
Using handmade paper, botanical toners, and alternative darkroom techniques, he transforms photographs into tactile, imperfect artefacts shaped by chance and material interaction.
Exhibitions and Awards:
Photo London 2026
Open Doors Gallery
London
May 13th - May 17th 2026
Winner first prize
BBA Photography Prize 2025
BBA Gallery
Berlin
May 23rd - 1st June 2025
Threads of Gold
BBA Gallery
Berlin
November 20th - January 17th 2025
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Woolwich Arsenal
London
November 13-16 2025
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Woolwich Arsenal
London
November 14-18 2024
Symbiosis 2 - London Alternative Photography Collective
Four Corners Gallery, Bethnal Green
London
May 15-18 2024
Publications:
ArtDoc Magazine
Issue 2, 2025
The Meditative Lens