Architectural Photography · Chicago, IL
Photography, commissioned in Chicago, IL
Architectural and interiors photography for practices, developers and magazines. Shot on site, in the light the building actually gets.
Illustrative photographs — Anders Jildén / Unsplash. Not this business's own work.
Inside Cass Harlow
Take a closer look.
Illustrative photographs — Kenrick Baksh / Unsplash, Bjørn-Magnus Kristiansen / Unsplash, Nic Georgiou / Unsplash, Deconovo / Unsplash. Not this business's own work.
Selected work
6 projects from the studio index
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Lakeside house
Illustrative photograph — Kenrick Baksh / Unsplash. Not this business's own work.
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Adaptive reuse warehouse
Illustrative photograph — Bjørn-Magnus Kristiansen / Unsplash. Not this business's own work.
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Reading room refit
Illustrative photograph — Nic Georgiou / Unsplash. Not this business's own work.
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Concrete stair study
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Courtyard housing
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Timber pavilion
Questions
Asked, and answered
How is licensing handled?
Quoted per use. Practice portfolio and awards are included; advertising is quoted separately.
Do you travel?
Yes. Travel and accommodation at cost, agreed before booking.
How long until we see images?
Contact sheet in three days, finished selects within two weeks.
Capabilities
What the studio takes on
- Building exteriors
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Timed to the light the facade was designed for, which is rarely midday.
Golden hour · Blue hour · Tilt-shift
- Interiors
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Ambient first, flash only where the room genuinely needs it.
Ambient · Styling
- Editorial commissions
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Working to a publication’s brief, delivered to their spec and deadline.
Brief · Deadline
- Detail and material studies
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Junctions, finishes and the things that took the practice a year to resolve.
Macro · Materials
Method
How a project runs
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Site visit
Before the shoot, to see which rooms work at which hour. It changes the schedule more than anything else.
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Shoot
A day or two on site, tethered, with someone from the practice there to say what matters.
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Selects
A contact sheet within three days. You choose, then those are finished.
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Delivery
Full resolution and web-sized, with a licence that says plainly where you can use them.
One photographer, one assistant on larger jobs. Ten years photographing buildings, mostly for the people who drew them.