Each month Architectural Photo Library View Pictures turn the spotlight on one of their photographers, giving them an opportunity to tell you a little more about themselves and their work. My turn was in the View Jan 2010 issue #26
Archives for the month of: January, 2010
I’m delighted to announce i’m now listed under interior and exterior architectural photography in the Adobe Photographers’ Directory website serving Oxford, Bristol and London. You can find my listing here.
The Adobe Photographers Directory enables designers, art directors and image buyers a consolidated resource for locating professional photographers by a given specialty in a certain city. The Adobe Photographers Directory will be searchable by city, state and country as well as by photography specialty. The directory can be accessed directly via the Favorites tab in Adobe Bridge located in Creative Suite 2 and Photoshop CS2. The Adobe Photographers Directory will also be available on Adobe.com and Adobe Studio.
On the same day I hear the announcement of the Apple iPad and the furore over how it may change the publishing industry I passed the empty shell of my favourite book store Borders in Oxford.
Empty interior of Borders Bookstore, Oxford
Closure Notice at Borders Bookstore, Oxford
Empty shop window after Closure of Borders bookstore, Oxford
Borders bookstore in Oxford is one of 45 stores in the UK to close all its branches in the UK on 22 December 2009. The chain went into administration earlier this month and had kept open all its stores while it attempted to find a buyer. Administrators MCR said all 45 Borders and Books Etc stores would close on 22 December. Borders has suffered from increased competition from online retailers and supermarkets. Borders employed 1,150 people in total. MCR has previously said Borders had “severe cash flow pressures” and that several suppliers had stopped or reduced its credit, which made suppliers less willing to trade with the retailer and made it difficult for it to replenish its stock levels.
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
I’m delighted to announce my acceptance as a member of The Association of Independent Architectural Photographers (AIAP).
“All AIAP Photographers are full-time professionals whose specialty is architectural photography. Unlike other commercial photographers who occasionally dabble in architectural photography, AIAP Photographers are masters of this most difficult of all photographic specialities.”
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My photograph of the cast iron interior of Abbey Mills Pumping Station Interior was chosen for the cover of recently published book “Into the Belly of the Beast: Exploring London’s Victorian Sewers” by Dr Paul Dobraszczyk published by Spire books.
Into the belly of the beast is a rare pleasure within books on subterranean London and Victorian architecture in that is combines real academic meat, in an easily readable manner, with extensive and sumptuous illustrations. Thus the book can be equally enjoyed as a visual feast or read as a continuous narrative. Paul Dobraszczyk shows us the unexpected fact that the methods of describing and drawing these vast underground spaces at the time of their inception were not the disinterested studies we might expect, but hint at wider aspirations of the Victorian age which he further illuminates in his description of their most noticeable architectural expression, the great pumping stations. An essential addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in London or Victorian architecture and engineering.
The cover photograph shows Interior of the old Abbey Mills Pumping Station (Station A) showing wrought iron metalwork and modern vertical motors that replaced the original steam beam engine.Located in Abbey Lane, London E15, the building is a sewerage pumping station, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver, it was built between 1865 and 1868 after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and “The Great Stink” of 1858. It was designed in a cruciform plan, with an elaborate Byzantine style, described as The Cathedral of Sewage. The pumps raise the sewage in the London sewerage system between the two Low Level Sewers and the Northern Outfall Sewer, which was built in the 1860s to carry the increasing amount of sewage produced in London away from the centre of the city.
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Architecture and Interiors Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
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Award-winning Architectural & Travel Photographer from Oxford. Former architect, author of Drawing Parallels & aiming to visit all the world's countries by 2025
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