Salz Studio
Sit for the Series
A Halloween Portrait Series

Masque

A study of who we choose to be in the dark.

For true Halloween & art lovers only

Turn the page

Do you want to emerge from smoke and lightning, wrapped in never-ending darkness and whispers, or to become the darkness itself… something beautiful enough to draw them closer, mysterious enough to keep them there, and dangerous enough that they forget they were ever supposed to escape?

Foreword

There is nothing for sale on this page. No sitting to book, no proof to approve, nothing at the end but the image and whatever you became to make it.

Once a year the veil goes thin and we are all permitted to be someone else. On that single night, under candlelight and false lightning, we make portraits for no reason but the wanting of them. Ordinary people who step into the smoke and come out as something the dark had been waiting for.

So come and be undone a little. Be the thing that lingers at the edge of the firelight, lovely and faintly wrong, the one they cannot stop watching and cannot quite explain. Made for its own sake, and for yours, if you dare to sit for it.

— Salz Studio

The Plates

Studies in the dark.

Every sitting is its own concept, imagined with you and built for the night. Turn the pages for a few of the ones that came before.

Smoke
The Pair
Ember
The Gathering
Nocturne
Reach
Till Death
Shadowplay
Crimson
Wraith
Embrace
The Red Hour
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An Invitation

Apply to be a subject.

Each October the series grows by a chosen few. Tell us who you are and what you're drawn to, and if it's a fit, we'll reach out to build a concept together.

There is no fee and nothing to buy. This series is selective, and we only contact the people we accept.

If you're accepted, we'll reach out to you.