Adam Freire is a photographer and art director based in Toronto. Born to an Italian 

mother and a Portuguese father, he was raised in a world steeped in European art, 

history, and storytelling. Drawn to the past, he finds himself constantly escaping the 

concrete of Toronto for the cobblestone streets of Europe, chasing the echoes of history. 

His work is a reflection of that journey, a visual dialogue with the remnants of time, an 

attempt to bridge what was with what remains. 

The work he is currently creating, Meditations, is a reflection on stoicism, the passage of 

time, and the fleeting yet resonant moments we leave behind. 

This series is built from photographs he has captured throughout his travels, images 

taken with this collection in mind, each chosen to evoke a sense of time’s quiet 

persistence. For the first body of work, he is using the cyanotype process, a 

photographic technique that imbues each piece with a deep, rich blue. The nature of 

this process ensures that no two pieces are ever the same, each one carrying its own 

unique textures and nuances on heavyweight watercolour paper. 

As the series evolves, he will experiment with altering cyan tones to warm sepia hues, 

introducing variation in the work’s palette. He will also be expanding the collection by 

printing on aluminum and fine art paper, as well as incorporating plexiglass to create 

pieces that blur the line between photography and sculpture. 

There’s much more to come—stay tuned.