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I photograph the moments that words can’t hold<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Documenting life in the spaces between \u2014 editorial, portrait, and documentary work from around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Keahi<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Based in Berlin. Available for editorial, commercial, and documentary commissions worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2024 \/ Editorial<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Light Study, Kyoto<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A two-week residency documenting morning rituals in traditional neighborhoods. Shot on medium format, natural light only.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Keahi sees things other photographers miss. She doesn’t just document a space \u2014 she reveals it.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Reiner, Creative Director, Studio Reiner<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Photography found me before I found it. Growing up between Honolulu and Berlin, I learned to see the world as a series of contrasts \u2014 light and shadow, silence and noise, permanence and flux. That tension drives every frame I shoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My approach is rooted in patience and presence. I spend days on location before shooting \u2014 observing how light moves through a building, how people inhabit a space. The camera comes last. Understanding comes first.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I work primarily with architects and design studios who need photography that reveals the intent behind their work \u2014 not just the surface. Currently based in Los Angeles, available worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Sofia Mercer, 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibitions & Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Between Walls \u2014 Solo Exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Gallery Eight, Los Angeles, 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Light in Structure \u2014 Group Show<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

MoMA PS1, New York, 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Concrete Poetics \u2014 Featured in Architectural Digest<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Issue 204, Spring 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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