For me, photography is a natural extension of the design process. My work involves collaborating with architects and designers to document built spaces as they exist, but also to contextualize a project, and render it in ways that reinforce the values informing its design.
I don’t see myself as a commercial photographer, nor as an independent third party – my role is to join your team in the final leg of what has been a long process involving many minds and many hands.
I believe that the best photographs depict a long view of architecture – rather than seeing buildings as static objects at a single moment in time, I enjoy shooting the process of construction and then documenting the life that inhabits a space in the years that follow. Whereas most photos are made immediately after a building is ‘complete’, a longer view of photography allows me to capture the symbiosis of architecture and landscape that emerges only with seasons of growth, or the soft qualities of weathering that reveal themselves only after years have passed.
I was trained as an architect, and for years I balanced my time shooting with part-time work in a boutique residential firm. I respect the dedication required to see ideas from concept to realization, and understand the importance of having imagery that reinforces those original concepts, in order to tell the story of a project.
Having made the bittersweet decision to leave the world of architectural practice, I’m working to define a new niche for myself, landing somewhere between traditional architectural photography and a fine art practice.
I balance this work with longer-term commissioned series of photographs for exhibitions and publications, and have been regularly teaching in the undergraduate architecture program at the University of Toronto since 2018.
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