Spaces, photographed as they feel

Architecture, interiors, lifestyle & hospitality photography

Architecture, interiors, hospitality, lifestyle and portfolios. Available for independent commissions in India, the Gulf and Southeast Asia.

One room, one window

The window runs the length of the desk and looks into trees. When the sun gets low enough, it lays a hard band of light across the floor tiles, and that band is the brightest thing in the room.

The exposure is set for that light, not for the room. Everything else is allowed to fall away, because a room lit like this is mostly dark, and lighting it evenly would have described a different room. The frames below are the same corner, with and without someone in it.

A woman sits at a desk running the length of a louvred window, silhouetted against the daylight, while a band of late sun falls across the tiled floor behind her — Late light, off the floor

The same desk, the figure tipped back with her face lifted into the window light, the rest of the room falling into darkness — The same seat, a minute later

The room empty: a long desk under the window, an office chair pushed back, daylight coming through horizontal louvres with foliage beyond the glass — The room without anyone in it

A tall window seen almost in silhouette, its vertical bars and a hanging cord dividing the frame, with dry grass and thin branches pressed against the glass outside — Window, from the dark side

Around Vijayawada, at the turn of the harvest

Ten days in the fields outside Vijayawada, late August into September, with the harvest under way. Not a commission and not a story anyone asked for: people working the rows, a break at the edge of the maize, and the light this landscape gets at either end of the day, when the haze that flattens it at noon starts working for you instead.

It is here because it is the other half of the job: being there early, staying late, and getting close enough to people at work to photograph them as they are.

A dirt track running between crops at dawn, the sun a white disc burning through heavy mist, power poles and lines receding into the haze — First light on the track

A man bent over filling a knapsack sprayer from a jerry can beside two parked motorcycles, a maize field behind him with other workers among the rows — Filling the sprayer

Three men in head cloths sitting on a low concrete block at the edge of a maize field, looking back at the camera, a motorcycle parked behind them — A break at the edge of the maize

A ribbed mackerel sky turning pink and violet at dusk above the tin roof of a farm shed, with palms in silhouette to the right — Mackerel sky over the shed

A water buffalo's head entering the bottom-left corner of the frame, beyond it flat paddy running to a distant clump of coconut palms under cumulus cloud — Shade, and the field beyond it

Both sets above are personal work, shot on my own time and nobody's brief. Commissioned hotel, restaurant and architecture projects are being cleared for publication and will be added as case studies with the brief, the constraints and the result, each one stating plainly whether it was independent or shot for Photographix. If you want to see client work before then, ask and I will send a PDF.

What I shoot

Hotels & resorts

Rooms, suites, public areas and grounds, shot to hold up across booking platforms, print and brand campaigns.

Restaurants & bars

Interiors and atmosphere, worked around service hours so the room still looks like itself.

Architecture

Exteriors and structure, timed to the light the building was designed for.

Interiors & residential

Detail and material, for studios, designers and developers.

Lifestyle

People in a space, not just the space. Campaign and brand work where the room has to feel lived in.

Portfolios

Portfolio shoots for models, actors and performers. A range of looks in one session, shot to work for casting.

Have a space that needs photographing?

Tell me the project, the location and the timeline, and I'll come back with availability and a quote.

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