Afonso Salcedo
@afonso.me
• Portrait and Documentary Photographer
• Lighting Artist (Disney/Pixar)
• Los Angeles, CA 🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇵🇹
• IG https://instagram.com/afonso.salcedo
https://afonso.me
• Lighting Artist (Disney/Pixar)
• Los Angeles, CA 🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇵🇹
• IG https://instagram.com/afonso.salcedo
https://afonso.me
Seeing everyone’s northern lights photos tonight. One of nature’s most profound experiences.
Last saw them on a transatlantic flight, whole plane asleep while green light danced outside my window. Took this with the iPhone XS at the time.
Miss those Iceland nights.
Last saw them on a transatlantic flight, whole plane asleep while green light danced outside my window. Took this with the iPhone XS at the time.
Miss those Iceland nights.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Seeing everyone’s northern lights photos tonight. One of nature’s most profound experiences.
Last saw them on a transatlantic flight, whole plane asleep while green light danced outside my window. Took this with the iPhone XS at the time.
Miss those Iceland nights.
Last saw them on a transatlantic flight, whole plane asleep while green light danced outside my window. Took this with the iPhone XS at the time.
Miss those Iceland nights.
I love Guillermo del Toro.
Frankenstein is the perfect mastery of tragedy and love. The cinematography and production design are stunning, and I’m sure it will score a few nominations.
Loved it.
Frankenstein is the perfect mastery of tragedy and love. The cinematography and production design are stunning, and I’m sure it will score a few nominations.
Loved it.
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I love Guillermo del Toro.
Frankenstein is the perfect mastery of tragedy and love. The cinematography and production design are stunning, and I’m sure it will score a few nominations.
Loved it.
Frankenstein is the perfect mastery of tragedy and love. The cinematography and production design are stunning, and I’m sure it will score a few nominations.
Loved it.
Patti Smith’s Bread of Angels just arrived. Just Kids changed how I see creative work and becoming.
After Sally Mann’s memoir, ready to lose myself in this one. Reading can shape photography in ways you can’t quantify but also can’t quite ignore.
After Sally Mann’s memoir, ready to lose myself in this one. Reading can shape photography in ways you can’t quantify but also can’t quite ignore.
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Patti Smith’s Bread of Angels just arrived. Just Kids changed how I see creative work and becoming.
After Sally Mann’s memoir, ready to lose myself in this one. Reading can shape photography in ways you can’t quantify but also can’t quite ignore.
After Sally Mann’s memoir, ready to lose myself in this one. Reading can shape photography in ways you can’t quantify but also can’t quite ignore.
ROSALÍA’s new album is remarkable, the kind of work that reminds you why art matters. Music shapes everything about how I photograph, from lighting decisions to the energy in a session. The whole creative flow changes.
This album hits different.
music.apple.com/us/album/lux...
This album hits different.
music.apple.com/us/album/lux...
LUX by ROSALÍA on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 15 Songs
music.apple.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
ROSALÍA’s new album is remarkable, the kind of work that reminds you why art matters. Music shapes everything about how I photograph, from lighting decisions to the energy in a session. The whole creative flow changes.
This album hits different.
music.apple.com/us/album/lux...
This album hits different.
music.apple.com/us/album/lux...
Final stretch on The Last Airbender at Paramount.
There’s something about working on a story that’s touched so many people through the years. These crew shirts always mark the strange acceleration of a project becoming real.
So very grateful for this one and the amazing crew behind it 👌
There’s something about working on a story that’s touched so many people through the years. These crew shirts always mark the strange acceleration of a project becoming real.
So very grateful for this one and the amazing crew behind it 👌
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Final stretch on The Last Airbender at Paramount.
There’s something about working on a story that’s touched so many people through the years. These crew shirts always mark the strange acceleration of a project becoming real.
So very grateful for this one and the amazing crew behind it 👌
There’s something about working on a story that’s touched so many people through the years. These crew shirts always mark the strange acceleration of a project becoming real.
So very grateful for this one and the amazing crew behind it 👌
Gutted to see Teen Vogue’s entire politics team laid off today. Their work was consistently excellent, some of the best political journalism for young people.
Wishing all the affected journalists the best 🙏
Wishing all the affected journalists the best 🙏
November 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Gutted to see Teen Vogue’s entire politics team laid off today. Their work was consistently excellent, some of the best political journalism for young people.
Wishing all the affected journalists the best 🙏
Wishing all the affected journalists the best 🙏
Afternoon silence while reading, learning new things, and meditating on my creative process.
I needed this today. Also with the best company for diving into an artist’s perspective on work and life.
I needed this today. Also with the best company for diving into an artist’s perspective on work and life.
November 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Afternoon silence while reading, learning new things, and meditating on my creative process.
I needed this today. Also with the best company for diving into an artist’s perspective on work and life.
I needed this today. Also with the best company for diving into an artist’s perspective on work and life.
Halfway through Sally Mann’s new book ‘Art Work: On the Creative Life.’
I’ve always loved peeking behind the veil to learn about the life behind artists I admire and respect. Her perspective on the work, the process, the choices, the chaos… it’s been a very enjoyable read on photography so far.
I’ve always loved peeking behind the veil to learn about the life behind artists I admire and respect. Her perspective on the work, the process, the choices, the chaos… it’s been a very enjoyable read on photography so far.
November 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Halfway through Sally Mann’s new book ‘Art Work: On the Creative Life.’
I’ve always loved peeking behind the veil to learn about the life behind artists I admire and respect. Her perspective on the work, the process, the choices, the chaos… it’s been a very enjoyable read on photography so far.
I’ve always loved peeking behind the veil to learn about the life behind artists I admire and respect. Her perspective on the work, the process, the choices, the chaos… it’s been a very enjoyable read on photography so far.
If you need a solid break from reality with one of the best musicians out there, Beth Gibbons and the Sydney Opera House released her recent live concert.
So astonishingly beautiful.
youtu.be/apAoxiEKBcU
So astonishingly beautiful.
youtu.be/apAoxiEKBcU
Beth Gibbons | Live at Sydney Opera House
YouTube video by Sydney Opera House
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
If you need a solid break from reality with one of the best musicians out there, Beth Gibbons and the Sydney Opera House released her recent live concert.
So astonishingly beautiful.
youtu.be/apAoxiEKBcU
So astonishingly beautiful.
youtu.be/apAoxiEKBcU
Vote Save America organized a texting event today for Prop 50 in Los Angeles. It was fun volunteering to spread the word.
Beer, community, democracy. Polls are strong but meaningless without turnout.
CA: return your ballot. This is how we win.
Beer, community, democracy. Polls are strong but meaningless without turnout.
CA: return your ballot. This is how we win.
October 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Vote Save America organized a texting event today for Prop 50 in Los Angeles. It was fun volunteering to spread the word.
Beer, community, democracy. Polls are strong but meaningless without turnout.
CA: return your ballot. This is how we win.
Beer, community, democracy. Polls are strong but meaningless without turnout.
CA: return your ballot. This is how we win.
A Threads conversation about determinism led me to find my undergrad writings from 1999/2000, and to reconnect with my cognitive science professor.
He's 80, still asking whether AI can truly understand. I'm still asking too, just through photography.
New essay:
open.substack.com/pub/fonziela...
He's 80, still asking whether AI can truly understand. I'm still asking too, just through photography.
New essay:
open.substack.com/pub/fonziela...
Cognitive Science and the Questions That Don’t Leave You
How a conversation on Threads led me back to my 21-year-old self, and my 80-year-old professor.
open.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A Threads conversation about determinism led me to find my undergrad writings from 1999/2000, and to reconnect with my cognitive science professor.
He's 80, still asking whether AI can truly understand. I'm still asking too, just through photography.
New essay:
open.substack.com/pub/fonziela...
He's 80, still asking whether AI can truly understand. I'm still asking too, just through photography.
New essay:
open.substack.com/pub/fonziela...
Recent morning session with Jasmeet in LA. She’s a photographer herself with amazing Taylor Swift tour documentation.
Collaborating photographer-to-photographer brings different energy. These three portraits each reveal something distinct.
Grateful for sessions like this.
Collaborating photographer-to-photographer brings different energy. These three portraits each reveal something distinct.
Grateful for sessions like this.
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Recent morning session with Jasmeet in LA. She’s a photographer herself with amazing Taylor Swift tour documentation.
Collaborating photographer-to-photographer brings different energy. These three portraits each reveal something distinct.
Grateful for sessions like this.
Collaborating photographer-to-photographer brings different energy. These three portraits each reveal something distinct.
Grateful for sessions like this.
Shot this at the Louvre three years back.
Sunday’s crown jewel heist, when thieves scaled a lift, smashed cases, grabbed €88M in Napoleonic treasures in 7 minutes, with visitors inside, feels surreal.
That kind of audacity in broad daylight at the world’s most-visited museum is staggering.
Sunday’s crown jewel heist, when thieves scaled a lift, smashed cases, grabbed €88M in Napoleonic treasures in 7 minutes, with visitors inside, feels surreal.
That kind of audacity in broad daylight at the world’s most-visited museum is staggering.
October 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Shot this at the Louvre three years back.
Sunday’s crown jewel heist, when thieves scaled a lift, smashed cases, grabbed €88M in Napoleonic treasures in 7 minutes, with visitors inside, feels surreal.
That kind of audacity in broad daylight at the world’s most-visited museum is staggering.
Sunday’s crown jewel heist, when thieves scaled a lift, smashed cases, grabbed €88M in Napoleonic treasures in 7 minutes, with visitors inside, feels surreal.
That kind of audacity in broad daylight at the world’s most-visited museum is staggering.
Demolition crews tearing into the White House East Wing today for a $250M ballroom. Government shut down. Workers unpaid. But we can always find money for monuments to power.
What we choose to build, and tear down,reveals everything…
What we choose to build, and tear down,reveals everything…
JUST IN: The White House has begun DEMOLISHING portions of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump’s $250 million ballroom — despite earlier claiming it wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure. (Washington Post)
October 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Demolition crews tearing into the White House East Wing today for a $250M ballroom. Government shut down. Workers unpaid. But we can always find money for monuments to power.
What we choose to build, and tear down,reveals everything…
What we choose to build, and tear down,reveals everything…
Protesters gather at Hollywood and Vermont, Los Feliz, CA, Oct. 18, 2025, addressing democratic governance concerns.
The creativity and earnestness on display today reminded me why documenting these moments matters. From sign-making prep to peaceful assembly, civic engagement in action.
#nokings
The creativity and earnestness on display today reminded me why documenting these moments matters. From sign-making prep to peaceful assembly, civic engagement in action.
#nokings
October 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Protesters gather at Hollywood and Vermont, Los Feliz, CA, Oct. 18, 2025, addressing democratic governance concerns.
The creativity and earnestness on display today reminded me why documenting these moments matters. From sign-making prep to peaceful assembly, civic engagement in action.
#nokings
The creativity and earnestness on display today reminded me why documenting these moments matters. From sign-making prep to peaceful assembly, civic engagement in action.
#nokings
At No Kings protest tomorrow with my camera.
If you're going: know your rights, stay aware, have an exit plan. If documenting, back up images immediately and be careful posting identifiable faces.
Protest safely. Document what matters.
If you're going: know your rights, stay aware, have an exit plan. If documenting, back up images immediately and be careful posting identifiable faces.
Protest safely. Document what matters.
October 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
At No Kings protest tomorrow with my camera.
If you're going: know your rights, stay aware, have an exit plan. If documenting, back up images immediately and be careful posting identifiable faces.
Protest safely. Document what matters.
If you're going: know your rights, stay aware, have an exit plan. If documenting, back up images immediately and be careful posting identifiable faces.
Protest safely. Document what matters.
Delicate Arch, 11 years ago. Found this digging through old archives.
Some images hold up over time. This one still works.
Some images hold up over time. This one still works.
October 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Delicate Arch, 11 years ago. Found this digging through old archives.
Some images hold up over time. This one still works.
Some images hold up over time. This one still works.
U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters at AIDS Walk LA opening ceremony, West Hollywood Park, Oct. 12, 2025. Annual walk supports APLA Health’s HIV/AIDS programs.
From Sunday’s documentation of the event for APLA Health.
From Sunday’s documentation of the event for APLA Health.
October 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters at AIDS Walk LA opening ceremony, West Hollywood Park, Oct. 12, 2025. Annual walk supports APLA Health’s HIV/AIDS programs.
From Sunday’s documentation of the event for APLA Health.
From Sunday’s documentation of the event for APLA Health.
Photographed AIDS Walk LA yesterday. Exhausting work, but got some great shots and met amazing people.
More images coming soon.
#photography
More images coming soon.
#photography
October 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Photographed AIDS Walk LA yesterday. Exhausting work, but got some great shots and met amazing people.
More images coming soon.
#photography
More images coming soon.
#photography
Setting up for AIDS Walk LA tomorrow.
The Sony cameras versus the Nikon F50 my dad gave me as a kid… learned on film, shooting digital now.
Different tools, same practice.
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The Sony cameras versus the Nikon F50 my dad gave me as a kid… learned on film, shooting digital now.
Different tools, same practice.
📷
October 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Setting up for AIDS Walk LA tomorrow.
The Sony cameras versus the Nikon F50 my dad gave me as a kid… learned on film, shooting digital now.
Different tools, same practice.
📷
The Sony cameras versus the Nikon F50 my dad gave me as a kid… learned on film, shooting digital now.
Different tools, same practice.
📷
October 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
From my balcony: bird on a wire, LA sunset.
The best moments happen when you’re just paying attention.
The best moments happen when you’re just paying attention.
October 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
From my balcony: bird on a wire, LA sunset.
The best moments happen when you’re just paying attention.
The best moments happen when you’re just paying attention.
Trying new gear during paid gigs is the best way to know what actually works.
Photographing AIDS Walk LA Sunday, so I am looking forward to seeing how this 50-150mm/f2 lens performs.
#sonyalpha #photography
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Photographing AIDS Walk LA Sunday, so I am looking forward to seeing how this 50-150mm/f2 lens performs.
#sonyalpha #photography
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October 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Trying new gear during paid gigs is the best way to know what actually works.
Photographing AIDS Walk LA Sunday, so I am looking forward to seeing how this 50-150mm/f2 lens performs.
#sonyalpha #photography
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Photographing AIDS Walk LA Sunday, so I am looking forward to seeing how this 50-150mm/f2 lens performs.
#sonyalpha #photography
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More from Joshua Tree: storms, clear days, wildflowers, and night skies.
The desert’s range of light in a single weekend is something else.
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The desert’s range of light in a single weekend is something else.
📷
October 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
More from Joshua Tree: storms, clear days, wildflowers, and night skies.
The desert’s range of light in a single weekend is something else.
📷
The desert’s range of light in a single weekend is something else.
📷
Slow Horses continues to be one of the best and most entertaining shows on Apple TV+.
Gary Oldman 👏👏👏
Gary Oldman 👏👏👏
October 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Slow Horses continues to be one of the best and most entertaining shows on Apple TV+.
Gary Oldman 👏👏👏
Gary Oldman 👏👏👏