Reto Halme was born in Helsinki, Finland. He is a photographer and multimedia artist with an early connection to photography, influenced by his architect father and his visual arts teacher mother. He began developing his skills primarily through self-study.
In the early 1990s, Halme began his career in fashion photography in Madrid, amidst the city's awakening to modernity, developing work focused on the female body and its architectural context.
In the mid-to-late 1990s, he moved to London and later to New York, where he spent about seven years at Greenpoint Studio in Brooklyn, capturing urban nightlife, the subway, and spontaneous movement.
His personal journey continued with his arrival in Los Angeles (in the early 2000s): a period of photographing deserts, highways, and beaches, accompanied by the impact of 9/11, which influenced him to create a more cinematic style, accentuated by a passion for travel.
Between 2009 and 2013, she returned to Europe, spending time again in Madrid and Barcelona before settling in Berlin, where she continues to reside.
Her work is distinguished by its blend of sensuality with a somber atmosphere, often using the urban nightscape as a backdrop.
Halme understands fashion photography as a way to capture key fragments of the present moment and reality. In her work, which encompasses video, cinematic-style photography, and visual music sets, she seeks authenticity and captures nocturnal energy and urban textures through a cinematic lens. She has explored the layering of videos to the rhythm of music, drawing inspiration from her work as a VJ (visual DJ).
New York Fashion Stories - TV documentary about Reto's work in 2001.
