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A silver birch tree grows through the floor on the terrace of Hotel Polissia. The hammer and sickle is visible atop the distant building
Light switches in a bedroom of Hotel Polissia. The peeling paint is the result of 21 years decay.
Lobby of Hotel Polissia. The check-in desk is in the background. Marble wall cladding has been removed by looters.
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2007
Super Superficial Earlham Street Store. T-shirt boutique designed by Sang Lee Architecture. Located at 22 Earlham Street, Covent Garden London, UK
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Super Superficial "Head-in-the-clouds' Lightbox Sign
Designer t-shirts arranged on hangers and timber shelves
Monochrome t-shirts
Stairs leading down to Gallery 7
Super Superficial cloud logo on the rail
Spectrum of t's
Glossy black shop exterior
The interior is part sauna, part asian sliding screen
The listed building is characteristic of Covent Garden, London
View the entire set of Super Superficial Earlham Street Photographs here
Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
Thank you for considering Quintin Lake for a commission.
An architectural photography assignment is a commitment of time, of resources and of money. Creating high-quality images on location presents a complex series of challenges. Thorough planning and communication among the client, photographer, location owner and representatives at the site can help ensure maximum efficiency and productivity.
I hope this architectural photography checklist is useful in getting the highest quality results.
1. DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT
The Client to Specify:
• Exact location map of the site with North point marked.
• Function of building.
• Provide construction progress photos if available.
• Areas to be photographed and number of views expected.
• Are there any key features to highlight – or flaws for the photographer to downplay or avoid?
• What is the purpose of the photographs – how are they to be used and who is the audience.
• Delivery deadline.
• Who is commissioning photography? ie Images for single client only? Multiple parties sharing photo costs and each using the images? Same rights for all parties?
Photographer to Specify:
• Copyright – this is retained by the photographer unless specifically transferred to the client in writing.
• All pictures are entered into an image archive for potential future publication – unless there is a prior agreement. I believe that getting our pictures seen by a wide audience is good for photographer and client alike.
• For each commission, I would recommend that you sign my building release form as a way of controlling publication of images of your project.
2. SITE CONTACTS AND ACCESS
Contacts - names and numbers should be supplied of:
• Client – office and mobile.
• Building owner.
• Building security personnel.
• Maintenance personnel.
• Any others involved in the project.
Access
• Are the building owners expecting the photographer?
• Do they know what this involves? – doing it properly means using a tripod, maybe lights, taking some time, etc.
• Are the rooms to be photographed accessible? – any keys or security codes involved.
• Can the building lighting be adjusted or controlled for dusk or dawn photography?
• Is there any special security clearance required?
• If photography from a neighbouring building is required, has the necessary permission been obtained?
3. SITE CONDITIONS – Is The Building looking its Best ?
• Has all the construction been completed?
• Has all construction and letting agent signage been removed?
• Are there any skips, scaffolding, fences, debris or portaloos left behind?
• Is the landscaping ready? Has litter been picked up?
• Are the windows and cladding clean?
• Likelihood of delivery vans arriving and staying for long periods?
• Any lights out? Have any been replaced with the wrong colour?
• Any Graffiti on building? Fences? Posters? Signs?
• Christmas or other seasonal decorations?
• Are interior spaces clean?
• Has all the correct furniture been installed?
• Artwork and sculpture in place?
• Flowers and plants available for inclusion in shots? Props arranged?
For information on rates and availability contact Quintin
by telephone on: +44 (0)1865 744798
or by email at: mail@quintinlake.com
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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.
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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Concert hall with water damaged soviet relief sculpture and piano, Pripyat, Chernobyl
The looted seating area in the Palace of Culture theatre, Pripyat
Palace of Culture Theatre prop room with paintings of Lenin and dignitaries, Pripyat (Pripiat), Chernobyl, Ukraine
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