aCONTEMPORARY INTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHY
House design is often like writing a novel in that it is a great amateur art form.
You may never have seriously contemplated design before in your life but you can still paint your ceiling silver if it takes your fancy. (I used to live in Elephant and Castle with a friend who did paint the living room ceiling silver - it is not a good idea).
The positive upshot of this is that clients personal needs and preferences have influenced design to a huge and fabulous degree. While international commercial architecture may bear little reference to its location houses continue to reflect the lifestyles of their inhabitants.
These inhabitants in turn employ designers sympathetic to how they wish to live.
There is a tolerance of design choice within the architectural profession which is particularly evident in contemporary house design where versions of modern, post- modern, and traditional languages meet an array of expressions from exuberant to minimal.
My photography of contemporary houses therefore has had to adapt to reflect the idiosyncrasies of their occupants as well as the skills of their designers.
The selection above represent some of the more curious and interesting projects I have shot.
What was essential to photography of these contemporary houses was the collaboration between client and designer, even if in some cases the client was the designer (or their families were).