Artist Feature: Jade Capaldi

Born in Jersey, Jade Capaldi is an analogue photographer working across fashion, lifestyle, and travel. Her work moves between bodies and places, drawn to the way skin meets fabric, stone, sand, and light. Trained in architecture, she reads space instinctively; the result is imagery where figures belong to their environments rather than standing against them. Her relationship with film began young, shaped by family photo albums and the home movies her father shot on an early video recorder. She bought her first camera at 14, and at architecture school, she relied on photography alongside drawing, painting, model-making, and scanning. This was an early introduction to working across mediums that still defines her practice today. After graduating, she left for Indonesia on impulse to work with a jewelry designer, and she spent much of her twenties moving between Indonesia and Switzerland, the ocean and the mountains. That instinct to follow where the work leads continues to shape her career. She shoots primarily in medium format and Super 8, hand-printing in collaboration with her lab. Film, slow processes, and material craft sit at the center of her approach as a deliberate counterpoint to a faster, digital world. The people she meets through her lens, and the stories quietly shared in the space between frames, hold a larger presence than their brief encounters might suggest. Recent work has taken her across Asia, India, Sri Lanka, and Egypt. She is currently based in Europe for the summer and is available for international bookings. Alongside commissioned travel and fashion work, she sells prints of her muses and travels.

Photographer: Jade Capaldi @jadecapaldi
Model: Courtney Allen @court.eliz