Raphael Macek (b. 1981, São Paulo) is a Brazilian-​born fine art pho­tog­ra­pher whose work explores the inter­sec­tion of the equine form with land­scape, archi­tec­ture, and sculp­tural light. Raised on a fam­ily farm where his father, a vet­eri­nar­ian, bred race­horses for the São Paulo Jockey Club, Macek devel­oped an inti­mate under­stand­ing of horses that pre­dates his rela­tion­ship with the camera.

His first mono­graph, Equine Beauty: A Study of Horses (teNeues, 2013), estab­lished his inter­na­tional rep­u­ta­tion with 180 pho­tographs that rede­fined equine por­trai­ture through unprece­dented stu­dio tech­niques. The work was pub­lished in five lan­guages and intro­duced col­lec­tors across more than 45 coun­tries to his dis­tinc­tive vision.

Macek pho­tographs exclu­sively with Phase One IQ4 150MP medium for­mat sys­tems and pro­duces all prints at InnFRAME, his own large-​format fine art print­ing stu­dio, ensur­ing com­plete con­trol from cap­ture to final pre­sen­ta­tion. His artis­tic influ­ences span Ansel Adams’s mas­tery of light and land­scape to J.M.W. Turner’s atmos­pheric paint­ing, draw­ing con­tin­u­ously from dis­ci­plines beyond pho­tog­ra­phy to enrich his evolv­ing visual language.