2 April 2026
The Bridge at 2 a.m.
There is a glass footbridge in this city that turns gold at night. We had it to ourselves for three hours, minus one very patient stranger.
An evening with
Ieva Balode
Editorial Model, After Dark
Riga, Latvia Doors open at dusk
Now appearing — by appointment only
Overture
Early in my career, three different photographers told me the same strange thing: I photograph like the middle of the night. Daylight tests came back fine; the frames everyone kept were the ones shot after the sun gave up. Eventually we stopped fighting it. I built my whole book between dusk and 3 a.m., and I haven't been booked for a breakfast-light campaign since. No complaints.
The programme
Recent engagements
Night work is its own craft, and I've made it mine. I can hold perfectly still through a two-second exposure and give you motion in the same frame. I know what a red neon sign does to blonde hair, which streetlamps flatter and which ones lie, and how to find the single warm bulb in a cold blue street. Give me a leather jacket, a wet pavement and one light source, and I'll give you a cover.
I After Hours Campaign 2026
II The Night Issue 2026
III Leather Capsule Lookbook 2026
IV Neon Nights Series 2025
Entr’acte
Notes after dark
22 January 2026
Learning to Blur
Most of modelling is learning to hold still. Then one photographer asked me to do the opposite, and it took me a whole night to unlearn my job.
30 October 2025
Cambridge Festival 2003
The story of my favourite prop: a band t-shirt from a festival that happened when I was a toddler, found at the bottom of a flea-market crate.
The final scene
Save the last dance
Editorial Model, After Dark, based in Riga, Latvia and available wherever the evening leads. For bookings and castings, send word.
Request an invitation