Welcome
Welcome to the world of photography – well, to my world of photography, which has a lot to do with pattern, with the unseen, with playing with colours, experimenting, moving the camera, catching mirrored images and with exploring what might be possible and what could be made visible.
While I like working with humans and come alive when setting scenes or when exploring the works of craftspeople and artists and while I occasionally enjoy the city, nature, light and the abstract are my main muses.
The photo series
The photo series range from magical tree barks and rock compositions to mirrored images, black and white photography, colour experiments, light dance images, a dancing coot and more.
The photo prints
Theoretically most photos and graphics on this website are available as Fine Art Print, usually on high quality Hahnemühle Paper. A selection of limited edition photo prints is presented in the Charlie Alice Raya catalogue.
If a photo or graphic you are interested in is not yet in the catalogue, you can suggest the opening of a new limited edition.
The photo studies
I started the photo studies as a reminder to myself, assembling photos with different perspectives, techniques, formats and experiments which I have explored so far. I share my observations and examples in the photo studies section. A highlight is the documentation of how the light dance images came about.
Photo shoots
I rarely do photo shoots these days, though I just completed an exciting one for a dancer and percussionist on the Island of Usedom. If you need photos for your arts, crafts, stories or thinking project, please, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Photo tours, stories & nature
In 2025 I had the great privilege of spending a lot of time on the Island of Usedom and with that in nature. It became quickly clear that exploring nature with the camera and sharing my findings are a perfect addition to my main writing work. Being outdoors inspires and keeps me from overworking while many aspect of how ecosystems work directly relate to the questions I mule over in the easy town story and in universe stories.
Therefore I decided to create a new job for myself which I will, later this year, try to make happen.
The Storytelling Photographer in Residence for rewilding projects, nature parks, expeditions and everything else nature.
I would require six hours on most days to do my normal writing work. I would use two to four hours a day for outdoors observations and photography. And I would dedicate 8 to 12 hours a week to writing stories for the project in question, stories which explore solutions and go to the roots of a problem. See for example THE BIG CLEAN-UP on my website THE END OF ALL WARS or the upcoming THE YEAR OF THE SHEEP.
The graphics
There are two graphics types: graphics I created for the easy town websites and for the easy town book covers, and some of the graphical work I did with red chalk and ink, in 2016 and 2022 respectively. There are some new works from 2023 which are not yet presented here.
Support the easy town projects
Every purchase of a Fine Art Print contributes to financing one or more of the following: the easy town books, the easy town projects, the new universe collections and the breastless project, all of which aim at inspiring and at contributing to a thriving, empowered, dignified, sustainable, inclusive and healthy future on our planet.
What are the easy town books & projects?
The easy town books by Charlie Alice Raya tell the story of a team which explores ideas of what it would take to build a town that is as fun and empowering as it is healthy to live in and that while restoring our environment. The easy town projects pick up ideas from the easy town story.
Some easy town projects have their own website and most websites feature a photo special. You can find an overview of all websites on the Charlie Alice Raya website. To see my latest exploits, celebrating nature, visit the social media platform Bluesky, no registration needed.
Enjoy the photos and the graphics, and have a pleasant day. If you have any questions, please get in touch.
Charlie Alice Raya
April 2026
Some of my experiments to take a new portrait of myself. Mostly, I had quite a bit of fun /:-)
About the
photographer & author
My pen-name is Charlie Alice Raya, and I use it for all my works and privately by now. While I’m still based in Berlin, the city of my birth, I am looking forward to getting on the move and, in the best case scenarios, either relocate to a perfect location for writing, or I spent time in the countries were my main work, the easy town books, are set (which include England, the US, Canada, Scotland, somewhere in a desert, more England, Portugal, Spain, England again, China, England again, South Africa, England and Scotland again, and then maybe as a huge treat New Zealand.) There is a third scenario, I like: becoming a nomad, travelling to where I can share my ideas and works while continuing to write my books. And yes, I’d also love to add some new photo series. Though, I’ll be honest, presently my work as an explorer, creator and author have priority for me. And presently, I mostly use my phones to add material for my Bluesky posts. You can find me on Bluesky here: @charlie-alice-raya.org
I am happy though, that after a shoulder injury, I am finally able to work with my big camera again. I haven’t done a tour with the camera, yet, and don’t know how my shoulder would deal with hours of work, but I’m pretty confident that I’ll be OK.
Quite a bit has happened since the end of 2022, and you can find out more about some of that on my overview website: charlie-alice-raya.org
red chalk
dance with me
2023
Hahnemühle Fine Art Print
pigment print on Hahnemühle paper
30 x 45 cm
white border
limited edition, edition of 77
Get in touch
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