Tommy Lei Studio

Tommy Lei Studio Visual medicine that make you feel more seen and less alone. More here: www.tommylei.com/links We work with a blend of commercial and individual clientele.

Tommy Lei Studio is a fine modern art photography and interior design studio based in Pasadena, CA.

06/18/2026

Art that slows you down.

Pink Tree, from Infrared Dreams.

A familiar thing, seen differently. The color was always possible — only the way of looking had to change.

On view now at Brand 54, Brand Library & Art Center.

Stand in one place long enough and you start to look like you’re waiting for something.A streetlamp. A dog at the glass....
06/16/2026

Stand in one place long enough and you start to look like you’re waiting for something.

A streetlamp. A dog at the glass. A cardboard man in an empty yard — small figures the city left standing, each holding its corner like it had always belonged.

from remnants.

• Looking Forward
• Barking Dog at the Window
• Danbo in the Wild

Pink Tree, from Infrared Dreams, 2024.Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper, emerald hand-glazed frame with brass t...
06/10/2026

Pink Tree, from Infrared Dreams, 2024.
Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper, emerald hand-glazed frame with brass title plate.
27 × 40 × 1 in. (68.6 × 101.6 × 2.5 cm).
Artist’s proof, edition of 2.

On view at Brand 54, Brand Library & Art Center.

There is something about a lit window at night that makes strangers feel less like strangers.Night Taco, 2022, is part o...
06/06/2026

There is something about a lit window at night that makes strangers feel less like strangers.

Night Taco, 2022, is part of Synchronicities — a series exploring the tension between detachment and connection. Random moments, non-correlated, yet quietly, unmistakably linked.

A late night scene in Old Pasadena — an echo of Hopper’s Nighthawks, rendered in infrared. Strangers gathered under light, the city dark around them. Through an altered spectrum, what might have passed as an unremarkable corner of the night becomes suspended, luminous, and quietly alive.

Now showing at MOAH:Cedar ( ), Lancaster CA through July 19th.
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Archival pigment print on canvas in a black wood floater frame
24” × 36” × 1.5”

Nothing connects us quite like the things we leave behind.Still Here, 2024, is part of Synchronicities — a series explor...
06/05/2026

Nothing connects us quite like the things we leave behind.

Still Here, 2024, is part of Synchronicities — a series exploring the tension between detachment and connection. Random moments, non-correlated, yet quietly, unmistakably linked.

A shopping cart at rest. Unnoticed. Unclaimed. And yet — still here. Through infrared, what the eye dismisses, the camera recovers. An altered spectrum that reveals what was always present in things we had already decided not to see.

Showing at MOAH:Cedar (), Lancaster CA starting June 6th. Opening reception is from 2-8pm.
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Archival pigment print on canvas in a white wood floater frame
16” × 20” × 1.5”

A triptych of photographs I made in 2017.Daily Bread, A Seat at the Table, and Self Portrait.Part of the Remnants series...
06/01/2026

A triptych of photographs I made in 2017.

Daily Bread, A Seat at the Table, and Self Portrait.

Part of the Remnants series.

Audience — and what remains after the crowd has gone.This image was made outside a concert hall — two stacks of empty ba...
05/20/2026

Audience — and what remains after the crowd has gone.

This image was made outside a concert hall — two stacks of empty ballroom chairs leaning against a grand limestone wall, a lantern still burning into the quiet.

I’ve always been drawn to the aftermath of gathering — the objects that hold the shape of people long after they’ve left.

I’m honored to share that Audience has been selected as a Foto of the Day by Fotografiska Emerging, and is being featured today as a dedicated artist collaboration on .emerging.

See the full feature here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYg0qtBjVCw/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

This is how my camera sees the Sonoma coast - let me know what you think ⬇️
05/17/2026

This is how my camera sees the Sonoma coast - let me know what you think ⬇️

Fields of pink and red in Sonoma, California — photographed using infrared-sensitive imaging, where light beyond human v...
05/12/2026

Fields of pink and red in Sonoma, California — photographed using infrared-sensitive imaging, where light beyond human vision transforms familiar landscapes into something dreamlike and suspended.

Meadows (2023) and Field of Red (2023) from the Infrared Dreams series.

Exploring perception, memory, and the emotional atmosphere of place through altered landscapes and color.

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