Architecture
2024
Concrete Hours
A new public stair hall in Ålesund, documented across one day from first light to the evening lamps.
Focus
8 m
Distance
8 m
Lens
24 mm tilt-shift
Exposure
f/11 · 1/30 s · ISO 100
Place
Ålesund
Client
Ørsta Arkitekter
The brief, the light, the result
Architect: Ørsta Arkitekter · Published in Arkitektur N, 04/2024
Architects need verticals that stay vertical. Everything was shot on a 24 mm tilt-shift with the camera level and the lens shifted, not tilted.
At 8 m
We returned every two hours from 05:30 to 21:00 so the practice could show how the raking light moves across the board-marked concrete.
Eleven frames were chosen for the competition submission and the Arkitektur N feature.
Other distances.
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Still life
0.3 m
Pear, North Light
A cider label built from one pear and one window. Twelve frames, all lit by the north light of a February afternoon.
Still life
0.5 m
Baby's Breath
A winter catalogue for a florist that dries everything it does not sell. Grey paper, one strip light, a lot of patience.
Product
0.8 m
Green Glass
Hand-blown bottles for a glassworks that fires its kiln twice a week. Rim light only, so the glass draws its own outline.
Portrait
1.5 m
Backlight
A portrait series for Svale's summer issue, shot into the low sun on Askøy between 21:40 and 22:10.
Interiors
3 m
The Yellow Room
Nine rooms in a renovated 1930s guesthouse, photographed only in the light each room gets on its own.
Architecture
8 m
Concrete Hours
A new public stair hall in Ålesund, documented across one day from first light to the evening lamps.
Documentary
30 m
Net at First Light
Four mornings with the last two net fishermen working the inner Hardangerfjord, for Kyst Journal's winter issue.
Landscape
∞
Eidfjord, Low Cloud
A poster series for a scenic rail line: one view from each stop, shot on the same 50 mm so the series reads as one journey.