Carla Silva
Portraits | Films | Stories That Stay
An archive of women becoming.
I witness women in the in-between.
In motherhood. In grief. In transformation.
Where memory softens
and identity reshapes itself.
This is not documentation.
This is legacy made visible.
The Way I Create.
My work moves between stillness and motion —
between image and film —
between memory and myth.
Each body of work is conceived slowly —
shaped through story, symbolism,
wardrobe, light, and atmosphere.
I don’t create traditional photography.
I create commissioned visual stories —
intimate, art-led, and enduring.
This isn’t content.
It’s legacy made visible.
Maternal Legacy.
A study of inheritance —
the invisible threads between mothers and their children,
across ages, across seasons.
This work honours what is passed down —
in gesture, in silence, in strength,
in the ways we carry one another in our bodies.
These are not portraits of small moments.
They are records of lineage.
Created slowly and intentionally —
shaped through story, symbolism, and atmosphere —
they hold the presence of those who came before
and those who continue the becoming.
Not documentation.
Devotion.
Womenhood
An ongoing exploration of the interior lives of women —
their softness and ferocity,
their contradictions,
their becoming.
This work moves through shadow and light —
holding space for what is often unseen.
These are shaped encounters —
intimate, layered, and reverent.
Every woman carries a universe within her —
not always visible,
not always spoken.
This is a quiet space
where that interior world can surface —
where you might see yourself
not as role,
not as expectation,
but as whole.
Every woman carries a universe
within her — most of it unseen.
This is where it is honoured.