French illustrator and self-taught photographer Céline Amorim captures the quiet power of domestic life from her studio in the Portuguese countryside. Her ongoing series “La femme à la maison” (The Woman at Home) began when she left the city during Covid — a turning inward that became a form of resistance.
Through delicate pencil drawings, Amorim reclaims the female gaze. Her women are not muses, but protagonists — inhabiting the in-between moments: folding laundry, staring out the window, simply existing. There’s irony in their stillness, a softness that hums with strength.
Amorim’s work doesn’t shout; it observes. In her world, empowerment is subtle — found in truth, vulnerability, and the poetry of small gestures.
