About Raff Karva

I'm Raff, Edinburgh-based freelance photographer and writer.

Photography started in a darkroom. It's stayed with me through wildlife at dawn, weddings, live music venues, portraits, and sports events. I work with both natural and studio light, and I take the shoot and the edit equally seriously.

Writing came later, or maybe it was always there. I have an MA in Semantics and I write about privacy, ecology, data, and the ways systems shape what we think we know. I try to find primary sources, do the research properly, and say what the evidence actually shows.

Lately I've been building tools for corpus linguistics — harvesting, classifying, and analysing media language at scale. That work lives on Codeberg.

If you want to get in touch, the contact page is here. Some of my photography is available as fine art prints.

Raff Karva self-portrait

what clients say

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