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Model Photography
Architecture,
before it is built.
A model is architecture in its earliest form — and often its most fleeting.
Photography for Architecture
A model is architecture in its earliest form — and often its most fleeting.
In time a model is broken down, it wears, it is lost. I preserve that form as it is — its scale and the grain of its materials intact — bringing to the model that has yet to rise the same regard I bring to a finished building.
Through controlled lighting and a careful command of depth of field, in studio or on location, I photograph physical models for competitions, monographs, the press and academic archives. Background treatment and compositing are available where a clean presentation is required, and both overall views and close details are delivered so the idea reads as clearly as the object.
The choice of viewpoint, light, and depth of field decides how faithfully — and how lastingly — the architecture held within the model is preserved. We keep its scale and materials intact, holding the form in a single frame. The difference shows most when the photographs are meant to be seen by others, and to outlast the model itself — in competitions, monographs, and the press.
Yes. We shoot for competitions, graduation projects, monographs, and the press — at high resolution, with images that hold up in print.
Both. We can photograph models in the studio, or come to your office or institution to shoot on-site — whichever suits the model and your schedule.
Yes. We take on annual model shoots for architecture schools, and ongoing documentation for design practices.