aCOMMERCIAL INTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHY
“Disruptive creativity is a team sport. It requires a physical space to spark idea generation through mingling and mash-ups.” says Sarah Kay of international workplace designers Woods Bagot.
Even prior to the advent of Covid-19 I noticed that the commercial interiors I have been photographing have increasingly ceased to look like conventional offices, they are places where people temporarily come together physically who are really connecting online.
As Kay explains we live in a world where increasingly “the corner office no longer connotes success, but wasted space”.
The photography of commercial interiors therefore has to explain the story of the design, how it tackles the practicalities of peoples increasingly peripatetic routines - requiring bike-racks, hot-desking storage units and booths for personal calls.
The offices I photograph feature jet-lag recovery pods, juice bars, an enormous number of ping pong tables and often spacious break-out spaces filled with natural light. An unexpected number of offices are pet-friendly.
But interestingly the pull of the city centre remains the same.
People would still often rather share offices in premium locations than rent larger more self-contained spaces on the outskirts.
Millennials prefer (or are believed to prefer) blending work with pleasure and require facilities to that end.
The co-working club is growing (the recent travails of WeWork notwithstanding) lifting features from hotel typographies such as spas and bars.
The chance-encounter, the opportunity for physical networking continues to draw people into the city.
I photograph a wide variety of commercial interiors.
So as well as offices, I shoot:
art gallery photography,
retail photography
restaurant photography
exhibition photography
post-production studio photography,
design & creative studio photography