Architectural Photographers

[Bertoldo Beyer]

Dutchphotographer Iwan Baan is known primarily for images that narrate the life and interactions that occur within architecture. Born in 1975, Iwan grew up outside Amsterdam, studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and worked in publishing and documentary photography in New York and Europe.

With no formal training in architecture, his perspective mirrors the questions and perspectives of the everyday individuals who give meaning and context to the architecture and spaces that surround us, and this artistic approach has given matters of architecture an approachable and accessible voice.

Fernando Guerra has been a pioneer in the way architecture is photographed and divulged. 22 years ago, he opened studio FG+SG together with his brother, and both are responsible in large part for the diffusion of Portuguese contemporary architecture in the last twenty two years.

Fernando Guerra is an architectural photographer. His training, however, is as an architect. His gaze is divided between two distinct modes of constructing the world. Given this fact, he is in a prime position to personify the metamorphosis of the field of photography that will lead the practice of creating images to eventually identify itself, in part, with the field of architecture.

In order to understand a space, architects, possibly with a more conscious intentionality than mere users, walk about the buildings. They capture the spatiality of architecture by wandering, scrutinizing, and associating ideas, shapes, dimensions. It is through this movement that they discover the infinite variables of the architectural space, the singularities that distinguish a significant place from the myriad of insignificant constructions that invade our visual field. And they do it by blending what they see with the memories of other buildings they carry with them, often acquired through observation mediated by photography. Our architectural culture, given the impossibility of visiting all of the buildings in the world, is constructed mainly through the eyes of others. It is in this sense that Fernando Guerra casts a generous eye upon the architecture he registers. Among the buildings he photographs, it is not exactly a value judgment on architectural content that is perceived, but rather an examination, at the emotional level, that seeks to homogenize all of the registers. Thus, what is cultivated is the absence of any critical moralism that might interfere with the image's final result and that seeks to position itself (architecturally) on a neutral plane, becoming useful in its own right. It is simultaneously a world in which better or worse architectures do not exist. The photographer, contrary to the photographer-artist, is summoned and responds through his knowledge as an expert. If he manipulates the image, that is, if any excess of "realism" is removed from it, he does it conscious of the fact that he works in a field of impartiality.

Fernando Guerra's work is regularly published in various national and international publications, in magazines such as Casabella, Wallpaper*, Dwell, Icon, Domus, A + U, among many others. FG+SG collaborates with various Portuguese architects such as lvaro Siza, Carlos Castanheira, Manuel Mateus, Manuel Graa Dias, Gonalo Byrne, ARX Portugal, Joo Lus Carrilho da Graa, Promontrio Arquitectos, as well as international architects such as Mrcio Kogan, Isay Weifeld, Arthur Casas, Zaha Hadid, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, among others.

Hlne Binet was born in 1959 in Sorengo and is of both Swiss and French background. She currently lives in London with her husband Raoul Bunschoten and their two children, Izaak and Saskia. She studied photography at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Rome, where she grew up, and soon developed an interest in architetural photography. Over a period of twenty-five years Hlne Binet has photographed both contemporary and historical architecture.

His photos have since been featured in magazines such as Wallpaper, Architectural Digest and San Francisco, displaying his aesthetic and his appreciation for the art of architecture and the beauty of light.

Fletcher is also the photographer of two books Ranch Houses, Living the California Dream (Rizzoli) and Cliff May and the Modern Ranch House (Rizzoli). He now lives with his wife and two mischievous dachshund mutts in Oakland, CA

Born on October 10, 1910 in Brooklyn, NY, Shulman's family moved to Los Angeles when he was a child. He briefly studied at the University of California, Berkeley before returning to Los Angeles where in 1936 he received his first assignment to photograph a house designed by Richard Neutra. Largely a self-taught photographer, Shulman opened his own studio in 1950 and began working on assignments for magazines and architects like his contemporary, Ezra Stoller. Throughout his lifetime, Shulman photographed the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, and Oscar Niemeyer. In 2008, he was the subject of a documentary, Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman. His more than 70,000 photographs are housed in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The artist continued working until the age of 98, and died on July 15, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA.

In these 30 years of professional experience in architectural photography Duccio has participated in several exhibitions, lectures, and juries. He collaborates with prestigious architects like Alvaro Siza, Herzog & de Meuron, Rafael Moneo, EMBT, and Coop Himmelb(l)au, among many others. His photographs are featured in major specialized magazines and publishing houses worldwide.

Toronto architectural photographers doublespace photography = amanda + younes. We make simple, bold and elegant architectural photography. Our creative vision is the product of our combined experience and diametrically opposed backgrounds; amanda is trained as an architect and worked in the field for five years, while younes is a former biologist-turned-landscape-photographer.

We alternate between covering each project from two distinct angles and collaborating behind the camera to push each other for an even more refined product. The result is beautiful imagery that showcases your designs in the best possible light. Our work has helped our clients garner several prestigious awards, including several Governor General Gold Medals in Architecture, Ontario's Lieutenant Governor's Award for Design Excellence, the Chicago Athenaeum Architecture award as well as numerous global, national and provincial accolades.

Our work has appeared in some of the most prestigious print and online magazines such as Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Icon, Interior Design Magazine, , Dwell, Canadian Architect, Wallpaper*, The Plan, Archdaily and Dezeen.

Ezra Stoller was born in Chicago in 1915, grew up in New York and studied architecture at NYU. As a student, he began photographing buildings, models and sculpture; in 1938, he graduated with a BFA in Industrial Design. In 1940-1941, Stoller worked with the photographer Paul Strand in the Office of Emergency Management; he was drafted in 1942 and was a photographer at the Army Signal Corps Photo Center. After World War II, Stoller continued his career as an architectural photographer and also focused on industrial and scientific commissions. Over the next forty years, he became best known for images of buildings.

I grew up in Ipswich, Massachusetts: a small coastal town that's one part postcard and one part dramatic Boston movie. Here I was lucky enough to meet a number of amazing teachers who opened my eyes to the world of art and design; this would alter the path of my life in more ways than I could ever imagine.

After studying studio art and environmental science at the University of Vermont, I moved to Lake Tahoe, California, in hopes of becoming a professional snowboarder (graduating right after the '08 recession made this seem like a great idea). A couple of years and too many injuries later, I found myself taking up an offer to photograph a few homes for a client I'd met while recuperating. What started by chance turned out to be the perfect mix of technical challenge and creative outlet, and I decided right there and then that it absolutely must be my career.

In 2018, I founded the Architectural Photography Almanac, a resource for architecture photographers and those in the architecture industry seeking to learn about the craft and theory of architectural photography.

Adam Mrk graduated as an architect in 1997 from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. He worked for five years as an architect doing competitions at Dissing+Weitling architecture.

Based with a studio in Copenhagen, He has since 2002 worked worldwide as an architectural photographer. He is both highly regarded and frequently consulted by international architects in Scandinavia, Germany and China for portraying their works.In all his work Adam Mrk shows a special attention and sensitivity of light - and how light sculptures and creates the space in harmony with material and people.

Andrew regularly accepts commissions for clients in advertising, property development, design and industry. Prior commissions include photography for Cisco Systems, Evraz, HBO, and the New York City Economic Development Corp. Andrew is a voting member of the American Society of Media Photographers.

Cristobal studied at the Architectural Association (AA) in London before he started his career as a photographer focused primarily on architecture, travel and reportage.Some of his editorial work includes commissions for titles such as: Monocle, Wire, The New York Times, Domus and Architectural Digest.

Simone worked as an architect in Italy, Netherland and Switzerland from 2008 to 2010 when he decided to start his carrier as a self-taught photographer.He has shot the works of Richard Serra, Cube Architecten, Herzog & de Meuron, Kaell Architecte, LCA Architetti, Modourbano, Stocker Lee Architetti, Duearchitetti and Studio Inches.

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