A Portfolio That Travels

Most portfolios are seen on a phone, in under a minute, by someone who is already tired. Build for that.

Open with your strongest frame and close with your second strongest. Nothing in between should make the viewer ask why it is there. If a picture is only in the edit because it was hard to make, cut it.

Twelve pictures is enough to show a point of view. Thirty is enough to hide one. Repeat your intentions, not your subjects: the same light, the same distance, the same restraint read as authorship. The same pose four times reads as habit.

Keep one edit for commissions and one for editorial. They are different arguments. A client wants to know what you will deliver; an editor wants to know how you see.

Caption sparingly and credit fully. Every collaborator named, every garment attributed. A portfolio that credits properly tells an editor you are easy to publish.