Rui Palma is a Lisbon-based photographer whose work moves between staged and documentary forms. He centers queer bodies, identity, intimacy, and states of otherness, treating strangeness as a place of familiarity. Working with the human body and organic form, he builds bold, visceral images that blend reality and fantasy. Through high-contrast lighting, crude color, and surreal elements, his practice produces raw, experimental scenes charged with emotional intensity.