grayscale photography of concrete blocks
gray concrete building under white sky during daytime

Past Sessions©

We photograph brutalist architecture. Nothing else. Raw concrete, hard light, printed by hand in Lisbon and London.

Shot on film, printed by hand

SINCE 2014

Founded

2014, on a council estate

Studios

Lisbon — London

Archive

112 concrete buildings

Medium

Film and medium format

About the studio

The studio

grayscale photography of concrete blocks

Rua das Flores 64, Lisbon. Every negative is developed, printed and archived here.

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Past Sessions©

Sessions

Concrete only, 2022—2026

Past Sessions©

Featured session

S-09

Commissioned by the architects restoring the building. Every floor is reached by a ramp, so we photographed it almost entirely in motion: going up, turning, looking back down into the light wells as the sun moved across them.

Photographer

Inês Varga

Year

2023

Location

Chandigarh, India

Format

18 photographs · medium format

Type

Commission

Nook Side Table, study

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Frame 03

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What the press wrote

2016—2026

Concrete Quarterly, Monolith, Form & Mass

Concrete Quarterly

No. 31 — 2025

“The most patient photographs of concrete you will see this year. Nothing is rushed, not even the shadows.”

“The most patient photographs of concrete you will see this year. Nothing is rushed, not even the shadows.”

“The most patient photographs of concrete you will see this year. Nothing is rushed, not even the shadows.”

“They treat a car park the way others treat a cathedral.”

“They treat a car park the way others treat a cathedral.”

“They treat a car park the way others treat a cathedral.”

Monolith

Issue 08 — 2024

Form & Mass

Vol. 12 — 2024

“Hard light, heavy tripods, no shortcuts. A studio that still believes in paper.”

“Hard light, heavy tripods, no shortcuts. A studio that still believes in paper.”

“Hard light, heavy tripods, no shortcuts. A studio that still believes in paper.”

Past Sessions©

Index

Six buildings, all concrete

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