Capturing the Way Home | JPS: José Parlá Studio

Photographs by Rey Parlá of José Parlá in the Studio, Elsewhere or Everywhere

Shot over many years and across multiple studio spaces, these photographs are not just records of process—they are fragments of our shared path. My brother José at work, in moments of color, solitude, momentum, and stillness. These images trace not only the making of paintings, but the living of a life in art. From Brooklyn to Havana, Tokyo to Miami, I’ve photographed him in the spaces where process becomes presence—studio walls, ladders, light, and paint-streaked silence.

Each frame is a love letter to the act of making, to the visual language we built together, and to the invisible thread that binds our lives, our art, and the meaning of home—wherever we’ve made it. This is not just documentation; it’s a map made of moments. A portrait of movement. A visual meditation on where creation begins, and where—through memory and witness—we are always returning.