About Me
I’m Tomer Weiss, a fine art photographer working mostly in portraiture.
For fifteen years I’ve been chasing the same quiet moment — the one where a woman stops arranging herself for the world and lets herself be seen. My eye was shaped early by classical painting and sculpture: the way a single portrait can hold an entire inner life in one gaze. That’s still what I’m after. Not a flattering picture. A true one.
Most of us carry a picture of ourselves in our heads that is far crueler than the truth. We learn to see our own faces as a list of things to fix. What I offer is another way of looking an eye that isn’t searching for flaws, only for you. A chance to meet yourself from the outside, and to be surprised by what’s there.
How I work
We talk before we ever shoot. By the time the camera comes up, there’s trust in the room, and that’s where the real images live. Not in the pose. In the small, unguarded second between the poses, where you forget to hold yourself in.
My work is mostly black and white, mostly quiet. I’m less interested in perfection than in presence, a look, a stillness, a strength that belongs to you and no one else. Every image is finished by hand, in my own style, the way a print was once made slowly in a darkroom.
What you leave with
Not just photographs. A way of seeing yourself that you can keep. Many women tell me the surprise isn’t how good the images look it’s the quiet relief of recognizing themselves, maybe for the first time in a while. Not the version they apologize for—the whole one.
This is what I love most about this work: watching a woman arrive unsure and leave standing a little taller in her own skin.
If something here speaks to you, I’d love to hear from you.
