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Tommy Lei Studio Los Angeles visual artist making healing, immersive photographic art and audiovisual experiences🏮www.tommylei.com

Tommy Lei Studio is a fine modern art photography and interior design studio based in Pasadena, CA. We work with a blend of commercial and individual clientele.

10/13/2026

One of the most important grief lessons I am learning:

Do not let life
harden you.

Braden and I met for our first official date on 10.12.2019.Here’s one of the very first sunsets we shared a few months l...
10/12/2026

Braden and I met for our first official date on 10.12.2019.

Here’s one of the very first sunsets we shared a few months later on Carmel Beach, CA.

To commemorate today, please share a story about someone special in your life. It doesn’t have to be a significant other - just one person who has made all the difference.

Love and light,
Tommy

10/08/2026

One month ago, my life changed forever. Braden, throughout our relationship, would encourage me to be the most authentic me.

We spend so much of our childhood answering what we want to be, but the real healing begins when we finally arrive at who we are meant to be.

All we have is now.This was a photograph I took on one of our nature trail hikes with Braden. I will cherish this messag...
10/06/2026

All we have is now.

This was a photograph I took on one of our nature trail hikes with Braden.

I will cherish this message forever.
Hope this resonates.

Found (Honorable Mention)From Synchronicities (2022–2025)Archival pigments on canvas, floater frameIn Community: Annual ...
10/01/2026

Found (Honorable Mention)
From Synchronicities (2022–2025)
Archival pigments on canvas, floater frame

In Community: Annual Member's Exhibition
Los Angeles Center of Photography
252 S. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Selected by Chandra Glick, Photo Director, Artforum

On view through November 5, 2026

Eleven homes burned to the ground in my immediate neighborhood in Pasadena, bordering the southern edge of Altadena. After returning from the mandatory evacuation, I did my best to resume my daily morning walks — a small ritual of return, a way of re-entering a landscape that was no longer what it had been.

On one of those walks, I saw this abandoned chair — torn asunder, leaving behind layers of fabric, cloth, and other materials. Each layer seemingly telling its own story of the fire that had transpired. I stopped and made this photograph.

Found is made through a custom infrared process I developed in post-production, one that draws out colors and textures the eye doesn't ordinarily register. The process asks a familiar scene to reveal what it holds beneath its visible surface — not destruction alone, but the quiet persistence of material, of form, of what remains.

Grateful to have the work seen and selected by Chandra Glick, Photo Director at Artforum. To be recognized by someone whose eye shapes the conversation around contemporary photography means a great deal.

I won't be able to make tonight's opening, but I encourage everyone to visit the show — it's a beautiful exhibition with work from an incredible community of photographers. I look forward to meeting you there before it closes on November 5th.

Thank you to the Los Angeles Center of Photography for continuing to build space for this community.

Los Angeles Center of Photography Artforum

I am excited to announce that a new surrealistic work from my Dreams: In Motion series has been selected for Hyperrealit...
09/30/2026

I am excited to announce that a new surrealistic work from my Dreams: In Motion series has been selected for Hyperreality, an AR exhibition taking place at Mesa Arts Center.

Palm and Sky (2026). Audiovisual video, 4k, large format digital photograph.

09/29/2026

We are all deserving of safe spaces to breathe, to let go, and to come back to ourselves. If you are that safe space for someone, never hesitate to reach out. We can all make a difference, big or small.

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