Large format film. Verticals corrected in camera. Long exposures that empty the street.Architecture photography for architects, the way the drawing looked before anyone moved in. One frame per building, and it takes a morning.
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inches of film. Thirteen times the area of a full-frame sensor. The window mullions are sharp.
people. Eight seconds at f/32 and anyone walking through is gone. Anyone standing still gets asked.
typical exposure. Long enough to empty a street. Short enough that the clouds hold.
frame per elevation. Two sheets, one to keep. Film costs enough to make you look first.
Not because people spoil it. Because the client is the architect, and the architect drew it empty. We photograph the drawing as built. The people come in the next photographer's pictures.
Elevations, interiors, or the whole thing surveyed. Always film, always a tripod, always a morning.
We arrive before the light's on the facade and leave when it's flat. Four sheets a face. One print each.
No lamps, no styling, nobody moving. Thirty-second exposures make an office look like the render.
For the practice archive, the monograph, the listing application. Numbered like the drawings.
Slowly. Five steps between the tripod going up and the dark slide coming out.
Send the address and the drawings. We'll tell you which faces work, which light they need, and roughly which week. Then we wait for the sky. It's usually worth it.
Commission a building