Arpit Phillips

Day to day I work at Photographix, an imaging studio covering interiors, architecture and hospitality. Alongside it I take independent commissions, which is what this site is for.

What I study is the anthropology of architecture: how a place is actually used by the people who live in it, set against how its architect envisioned it. Visual anthropology, the anthropology of design and architecture, and the language they are written in are where the work is for me. In India I am an emerging photographer, and I am still learning.

I am looking for more architects to work with and to talk to, in and around India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. If you design buildings and want them photographed the way people live in them, or want to compare notes on how a building is used once it is handed over, write to me.

The other half of my work is colour. I shoot a Fujifilm X-T5 and build film simulation recipes the long way round: starting from the manufacturer's own datasheet for a film stock, reading its characteristic curves and grain figures, and translating those into in-camera JPEG settings. The flagship recipes are then checked against real film scans, frame by frame.

That work lives under NaroLabs: a recipe bank, a knowledge layer explaining why each setting exists, and a YouTube channel where you can watch the recipes get made on camera.

The two halves are more connected than they look. Knowing precisely how a sensor renders a colour stops being a hobby when the job is making a hotel suite look like itself at seven in the morning.