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RIBA Downland Joint-Prize Winner | Project: Beard Mill | Architect: Berman Guedes Stretton (Photography: Quintin Lake)

RIBA Ibstock Downland Prize Winner 2008 | Project: Oxford School of Drama | Architect: Berman Guedes Stretton (Photography: Quintin Lake)

The Downland Prize has been awarded every year since 1998 to an architect based in RIBA South East or RIBA South regions, whose project with a total cost of £1million, best demonstrates the benefits of using an architect’s services.

I photographed two projects; Oxford School of Drama and Beard Mill Clinic for Oxford & London based architects Berman Guedes Stretton which both won the RIBA Ibstock Downland prize competition on consecutive years adding to their growing list of awards.

“Quintin has photographed numerous buildings for us over the years, with excellent results. We have used his images for all our marketing documents, and on our website, and they have been central to several of our winning architectural competition submissions: notably, the RIBA South Conservation Award (Oxford University Press – Mailing Shed) and the RIBA Ibstock Downland Prize (Beard Mill).”
Jon Du Croz, Architect, Berman Guedes Stretton

View more photos from the photoshoot at  Oxford School of Drama and Beard Mill Clinic.

Photography © Quintin Lake

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008

An account of the Oxford University expedition along the InterOceanic Highway in Peru in which I participated has been published in the Orchid Digest VOLUME 74, NO. 3—July, August, September 2010. The photos in the article are a mixture of mine and the other expedition members. A summary of the project is available to read here. In 2008 a photographic exhibition from the journey was held at Canning House entitled Orquídeas Interoceánicas

Orchis Digest Volume 74 Cover

Epidendrum Secundum Orchid was found during the InterOcenaic scientific expedition to Peru from 1700 to 2300 meters near Limocpuco in Transect II. Orchid Digest Volume 74 Back Cover. Photo: Quintin Lake

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

An Orchid Hunting Journey over the Peruvian Andes, 2008. Orchid Digest

VIEW MORE IMAGES of the Orchids here

VIEW MORE IMAGES of the Expedition here

VIEW MORE IMAGES of the Interoceanic Highway here

Brocklehurst Architects outside their office in West Wycombe (Photo: Quintin Lake)

Staff at Brocklehurst Architects (Photo: Quintin Lake)

Staff at Brocklehurst Architects (Photo: Quintin Lake)

Staff at Brocklehurst Architects (Photo: Quintin Lake)

An assignment of informal office portraits for West Wycombe based Brocklehurst Architects. Their brief was for corporate photojournalism style portraits to used on their print and online marketing, the clients wanted their realistic work environment portrayed without staged poses, lighting or props. See the rest of the shoot here

Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

An image from my photoshoot of Richard Wentworth’s “Untitled’ 2009 installation at the Venice Biennale is featured in the September issue of Artforum as a full page advert for Wentworth’s Exhibition at Peter Freeman Inc Gallery, New York.

Artforum International Magazine September 2010

Advert for Richard Wentworth's Exhibition at Peter Freeman Inc Gallery, New York in Artforum (Photography © Quintin Lake)

The exhibition at Peter Freeman Inc, New York runs from 9 September – 30 October 2010

View photographs of Richard Wentworth’s  Walking sticks and Hanging Books installations from  the 53rd Venice Biennale at the Arsenale here

Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009

Oxfordshire based Developer Belmark Homes contacted me to reshoot a property as they felt the estate agent’s photographs didn’t do the property justice. Even though it looks like the estate agent used a wide angle lens and a tripod, which is better than most, the original pictures do not maximise the potential of the building. In my reshoot I have tried to convey the two strongest aspects of the house that are not conveyed in the first shoot: its rural setting and quality of materials and fittings. View my entire photoshoot of Fairlawne House here.

BEFORE Estate Agent's Front Exterior Photograph • Setting looks stark, like a housing estate not a rural setting • Building falls backwards, verticals not vertical • Sky highlights overexposed

AFTER: Front Exterior Photo by Quintin Lake • Leafy and quiet setting conveyed • verticals corrected

BEFORE: Estate Agent's Rear Exterior Photograph • Tree obscures building • Flat tonal exposure • Emphasis on less attractive facade of building

AFTER: Rear Exterior, Photo by Quintin Lake • Tree frames building • Attractive facade emphasised

BEFORE: Estate Agent's Kitchen Interior Photograph • Room appears small dark and gloomy • Off angle verticals distracting

AFTER: Kitchen Interior, Photo by Quintin Lake • Colour tone removed • perspective corrected • space lightened with off camera flash • room lights switched on add visual interest • wide angle lens shows width of room

BEFORE: Estate Agent's Bathroom Interior Photograph • bath room appears cold and small • doesn't show oak door or shower

AFTER: Bathroom Interior, Photo by Quintin Lake • warm tone added • oak door leads eye in to room and warms image • perspective corrected • wide angle lens used to include shower unit

Magdalen College School Prize Giving 2010 presentation of prizes by Peter Winter, Headmaster of Latymer Upper School

Peter Winter, Headmaster of Latymer Upper School presents the Coronation Cup to Clark Glasgow who attained 5 A* Grades

Peter Winter, Headmaster of Latymer Upper School

Timothy Hands, Headmaster of Magdalen College School School

Magdalen College School parents at the prizegiving

An assignment from Magdalen College School to document their Prize Giving 2010.

VIEW MORE / BUY PRINTS / LICENSE IMAGES from Magdalen College School Prize Giving 2010 here >>

Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

An assignment from Magdalen College School to document their Open Day 2010.

VIEW MORE / BUY PRINTS / LICENSE IMAGES from Magdalen College School Open Day 2010 here >>

Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

Robert Lovick from OG Stonemasonry in Pembroke College Hall (photo © Quintin Lake)

Scaffolders at Pembroke College (photo © Quintin Lake)

Robert Lovick from OG Stonemasonry in Pembroke College Hall (photo © Quintin Lake)

Tony Molyneux from F & D Brown Brickwork. Pembroke College (photo © Quintin Lake)

Bob Cross M+E Consultant from G.F. Cross & Sons, Dimitri Harrisis Mechanical Consultant from Hoare Lea & Marion Brereton, Architect from Berman Guedes Stretton. (photo © Quintin Lake)

Ian Cook from Oxford Archaeology. Pembroke College. (photo © Quintin Lake)

Scaffolder at Pembroke College. (photo © Quintin Lake)

Bob Aller & Tony Molyneux from F & D Brown Brickwork. Pembroke College (photo © Quintin Lake)

Portraits of some of the construction team seen on site in September as part of a larger photographic documentation of the project.

VIEW MORE / BUY PRINTS / LICENSE IMAGES from Pembroke College Hall, Bar and Forte Room Redevelopment here >>