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Delight: Santa Justa Lift, Lisbon

By Quintin Lake
March 28, 2011 //
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Viewing platform at the top of the Santa Justa Lift (Elevador de Santa Justa), Lisbon, Portugal. Photo: Quintin Lake

The Santa Justa Lift (Elevador de Santa Justa or Carmo Lift) is a gloriously eccentric structure in the centre of Lisbon designed by Raul Mesnier de Ponsard, an engineer born in Porto to French parents. Raul Ponsard was an apprentice of Gustave Eiffel and returned to Lisbon with grand design ideas. He petitioned the royal house who provided all of the funding. Construction began in 1900 and was finished in 1902, originally powered by steam. The iron lift is 45 metres tall and is decorated in neogothic style, with a different pattern on each storey.

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Delight: Frescoes at St Clement’s Church, Ashampstead

By Quintin Lake
March 24, 2011 //
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Interior of St Clement's Church, Ashampstead showing wall-paintings. The paintings are thought to date from C.1230-40. Photo: Quintin Lake

Annunciation. Detail from the Holy Infancy fresco on the North wall. St Clement's Church, Ashampstead. Photo: Quintin Lake

The Visitation. Detail from the Holy Infancy fresco on the North wall. St Clement's Church, Ashampstead. Photo: Quintin Lake

The Nativity. Detail from the Holy Infancy fresco on the North wall. St Clement's Church, Ashampstead. Photo: Quintin Lake

The Appearance of the Angel to the Shepherds. Detail from the Holy Infancy fresco on the North wall. St Clement's Church, Ashampstead. Photo: Quintin Lake

These photographs were made during an assignment to produce compositions suitable for use as greetings cards which will be sold to fund building work on the church. The wall-paintings were lit with two strobes bounced off reflecting umbrellas to give an even an even neutral light on the subject. Various enhancements were made in post production to reveal the maximum amount of detail including increasing contrast and saturation of the originals.

The Courtauld institute has written “These 13th Century paintings are undoubtedly amongst the most important of their date in England, not only because of the amount of painting that survives but because of their high quality”. The paintings were discovered in 1895 having been plastered over during the reformation. Restoration work was undertaken in 1960.

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Pembroke College Brewer Street Project: Febuary ’11

By Quintin Lake
February 28, 2011 //
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Pembroke College Hall, Bar and Forte Room: One week before opening

By Quintin Lake
February 24, 2011 //
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Pembroke College Brewer Street Project: Demolition

By Quintin Lake
January 28, 2011 //
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Photos: Anish Kapoor in Kensington Gardens

By Quintin Lake
January 26, 2011 //
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Anish Kapoor, Sky Mirror 2006, Stainless steel,1066.8 x 1066.8 cm. Installation view of Serpentine Gallery exhibition Turning the World Upside Down, Kensington Gardens. Photo: Quintin Lake

Anish Kapoor, Sky Mirror 2006, Stainless steel,1066.8 x 1066.8 cm. Detail. Photo: Quintin Lake

Anish Kapoor, Sky Mirror 2006, Stainless steel,1066.8 x 1066.8 cm. Installation view of Serpentine Gallery exhibition Turning the World Upside Down, Kensington Gardens. Photo: Quintin Lake

Anish Kapoor, Sky Mirror 2006, Stainless steel,1066.8 x 1066.8 cm. Installation view of Serpentine Gallery exhibition Turning the World Upside Down, Kensington Gardens, London 28 September 2010 – 13 March 2011.

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Anish Kapoor, Non Object (Spire) 2008, Stainless steel, 302 x 300 x 300 cm. Installation view. (barrier and path around artwork digitally removed). Photo: Quintin Lake

Anish Kapoor, Non Object (Spire) 2008, Stainless steel, 302 x 300 x 300 cm. Detail of tree reflection. Kensington Gardens, London. Photo: Quintin Lake

Anish Kapoor, Non Object (Spire) 2008, Stainless steel, 302 x 300 x 300 cm. Detail of abstract reflections of trees on side of spire. Photo: Quintin Lake

Anish Kapoor, Non Object (Spire) 2008, Stainless steel, 302 x 300 x 300 cm. Installation view of Serpentine Gallery exhibition Turning the World Upside Down in Kensington Gardens, London 28 September 2010 – 13 March 2011.

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Anish Kapoor, C-Curve 2007, Stainless steel, 220 x 770 x 300 cm. Installation view of Serpentine Gallery exhibition Turning the World Upside Down, Kensington Gardens, London 28 September 2010 - 13 March 2011 (reflection of photographer digitally removed). Photo: Quintin Lake

Anish Kapoor, C-Curve 2007, Stainless steel. Detail of Installation. Photo: Quintin Lake

Anish Kapoor, C-Curve 2007, Stainless steel. Installation view. Photo: Quintin Lake

Anish Kapoor, C-Curve 2007, Stainless steel, 220 x 770 x 300 cm. Installation view of Serpentine Gallery exhibition Turning the World Upside Down, Kensington Gardens, London 28 September 2010 – 13 March 2011

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Pembroke College Brewer Street Project: December ’10

By Quintin Lake
January 18, 2011 //
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Hall the printers during demolition

Salvaged Floor boards in Hall the printers

Salvaged Plasterboard in Hall the printers

Salvaged Cables in Hall the printers

No 6 Brewer Street

Interior of No 6 Brewer Street

Remains of Rebellion Studio computer game company

Interior of No 6 Brewer Street

Demolition of cafe in factory building

Remains of EFG Mathews Furniture

Demolition of EFG Mathews Furniture at corner of Brewer Street

Salvaged Brewer Street sign in the site office

December 2010 construction progress at Pembroke College, Oxford as part of a larger photographic documentation of the Bridging Centuries project.

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Photos: Tewkesbury Abbey

By Quintin Lake
January 15, 2011 //
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Exterior of Tewkesbury Abbey tower dating from 1150 rated "probably the largest and finest Romanesque tower in England" by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. Photo: Quintin Lake

The Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Tewkesbury in the English county of Gloucestershire is the second largest parish church in the country and a former Benedictine monastery. In 1471 during  Battle of Tewkesbury, one of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses, bloodshed within church so great that it is closed. The tower is a particularly fine example of Romanesque architecture characterised by semi-circular arches.

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