“He loves chaos in all its forms and tends to perpetuate memories and emotional moments.
With the push of a button, the Belgian and Portuguese photographer, Xavier Portela, captivates the noise around him with a single photo frame.”
— CNN Arabic.
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Creative director, self-taught photographer and filmmaker based in Brussels Lisbon.
Xavier Portela started his career as a web developer after studying Multimedia in Belgium.

In 2012, he decided to drop his career as developer and his comfortable position for Bose Europe to work on his own, in order to follow his passion for images and become a photographer.

Since then he is known for his visual onslaught of signs and neon lights series: Glow, an ongoing personal project for which he travels the world to capture various cities at night, inviting us to dive in the atmosphere of those locations.

Contact
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Kyoto, Japan. Kawaramachi Shijo. Yamazakicho. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of year
Kyoto, Japan. Evening vibe. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to get it done b
Kyoto, Japan. Malda Kyoto. Aneyakoji-dori. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years t
Kyoto, Japan. Hanamikoji-dori. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to get it don
Kyoto, Japan. Kawaramachi, Naramonocho. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to g
Kyoto, Japan. Donguri-Dori. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to get it done b
Kyoto, Japan. Evening vibe. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to get it done b
Kyoto, Japan. Evening vibe. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to get it done b
Kyoto, Japan. Evening vibe. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to get it done b
Kyoto, Japan. Sanjō bridge. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to get it done b
Kyoto, Japan. Babbi Gelateria and Scorpione Kichiu Restaurant. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me
Kyoto, Japan. Gion district. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to get it done b
Kyoto, Japan. Urban choreography. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to get it d
Kyoto, Japan. Taxi! Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to get it done but here i
Kyoto, Japan. Sanjō-dori. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to get it done but
Kyoto, Japan. Watching people eating. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to get
Kyoto, Japan. Smiles at the end of the alley. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of year
Kyoto, Japan. Chichi dining & bar. Currently the city I miss the most since covid. I can’t wait to go back there, it’s one of those places where you will feel home even if you are very far from it. It took me a couple of years to ge