Services

(03)

(Ways of working)

We photograph one thing: brutalist architecture. Every session starts the same way: one building, one day, and the light moving across raw concrete.

(01)

Buildings

Buildings

Buildings

For architects, restorers, councils and archives: post-war concrete photographed before it is renovated, reclad or lost.

Site visit and light study

Exteriors, interiors and details

Licences for press and awards

(02)

Interiors

Interiors

Interiors

Churches, libraries, theatres and stairwells, photographed in the light they were cast for.

Styling with the owners

Day, dusk and night sets

Images for web, print and press

(03)

Books

Books

Books

Series for magazines and monographs on brutalism, and our own books, edited and printed in the studio.

Sequencing and edit

Scans and retouching

Hand-made prints and archive

(The session)

How a session runs, from the first walk around the building to the prints.

(I)

Scout

Scout

Scout

We walk around the building for a whole day and note where the sun hits the board marks, and when.

1 week

(II)

Shoot

Shoot

Shoot

Film and medium format, natural light only. We wait for hard light and long shadows.

2–4 days

(III)

Edit

Edit

Edit

Contact sheets on the wall until the series is as plain and heavy as the building.

3 weeks

(IV)

Prints

Prints

Prints

Archival prints on matte paper, with one numbered print kept in our archive.

2 weeks

(Start)

Bring us a concrete building, before someone paints it. We’ll tell you when the light is hardest.

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