Fran Gomez de Villaboa
Fran Gomez de Villaboa is a London-based photographer whose work moves between fashion editorial and intimate portraiture. Informed by his experience working with luxury houses, he brings a strong visual discipline to images that remain emotionally direct and closely tied to lived experience. His photographs often begin in the everyday, but shift it into something more heightened, exploring identity, belonging, and vulnerability through a language that is both carefully composed and psychologically acute.
Shaped in part by his perspective as a queer artist, Gomez de Villaboa approaches portraiture as a form of interpretation as much as observation. His work is concerned not only with how a subject appears, but with what sits beneath the surface: the tensions between visibility and privacy, strength and fragility, performance and selfhood. Questions of equality, mental health, and human connection run through the practice, but are held within images that remain controlled, precise, and emotionally open.
A two-time winner of Portraits of Britain, Gomez de Villaboa has worked with Dior, Loewe, Givenchy, Burberry, and most recently Adidas. His work has also been featured by the BBC and The Telegraph, and in 2025 debuted at the V&A East Museum in London, marking a significant institutional moment in a practice that continues to move fluently between contemporary portraiture, fashion, and culture.
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