ABOUT
Laura Macijauskaite — known as @bylauramcjke — is a fashion, portrait, and lifestyle photographer based in Limerick, Ireland, available for projects worldwide.She moves through the world slowly enough to notice things. The way afternoon light falls across a linen curtain. The particular stillness of someone lost in their own thoughts. A field of bleached grass stretching toward an Irish coastline, or the geometry of a palm tree against a white sky somewhere far from home. These are the things Laura is drawn to — not because they're extraordinary, but because she's learned to stop long enough to see them.That same instinct shapes everything she photographs. Her camera doesn't chase a perfect moment so much as a feeling — something atmospheric, just out of reach, that she recognises before she can name it. The result is work that sits in a particular kind of quiet: minimal, unhurried, and built from the textures of the real world rather than anything manufactured. Linen, wood, stone, raw concrete, water, skin — materials with weight and character. Organic interiors with light, muted tones. Landscapes that breathe.
Her eye moves comfortably between two worlds that, on paper, shouldn't share the same frame. There's the tropical — warm sand, salt air, palm trees, the kind of saturated golden light that only exists close to the equator. And there's home — the Irish countryside, sheep on a hillside, fields of beige fading into a grey Atlantic coastline. Both are equally hers. Both find their way into her fashion, portrait, and lifestyle work in ways she doesn't always plan and doesn't always try to explain.
Laura believes beauty belongs to everyone — not as a standard to meet, but as something already present in each person, waiting to be seen rather than constructed. She brings that belief into every portrait session: unhurried, attentive, present to whoever is in front of her lens. Her work doesn't ask people to perform. It waits for the moment they stop.When she isn't shooting, she's usually outside — walking, observing, just existing in a landscape. Or planning the next trip somewhere warm, following the light and the feeling that comes with a place she hasn't been yet. That restlessness isn't separate from the photography — it is the photography. A constant search for atmosphere, for texture, for the next image that makes her feel something before she fully understands why.
She works closely with creatives, brands, and individuals alike, shaping each project from concept to final image with the same quiet intention that runs through all of her work. Every collaboration is individual, every outcome considered.
If something here resonates — if you've read this and felt, even slightly, like you'd like to step further in — she'd love to hear from you.or email directly: Photography@bylauramcjke.com