INTERIOR, ARCHITECTURE AND AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY Nov 2018

Adrian Houston’s exceptional eye for detail as well as his meticulous, creative and relaxed approach has earned him a number of high profile portrait commissions, the Dalai Lama and Jim Carrey among them.

His ground-breaking images for the Mr & Mrs Smith series of travel guides helped put the company on the map, and he has produced a total of eight publications for this now globally recognised brand.

Other books include an architectural history of the London Olympic Stadium commissioned by Atkins (the Games’ official engineering and design provider), as well as a coffee table publication on behalf of leading interior designers including Anouska Hempel.

Adrian’s passion is conservation. His work has seen him travel to some of the world’s most unexplored and inhospitable terrains, with his powerful photographs subsequently gracing everything from advertising campaigns to magazine covers. In addition, the stunning images that resulted from him witnessing the eruption of Mount Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island were used to memorable effect in one of the Discovery Channel’s highest rating documentaries – Discovery People.

Adrian’s work has been exhibited both at The National Gallery and The Royal Academy of Arts.

Other high-profile exhibitions include a fund-raising initiative for Guide Dogs for the Blind at The Haunch of Venison at The Royal Academy of Arts, showcasing his customarily innovative portraiture - on this occasion celebrity figures with their canine companions. His latest exhibition 'A Portrait of the Tree', at the Unit London was a huge success and helped raise awareness of the importance of our trees.

Codis' professional career began as an art director for a modeling agency in South Beach, Florida. Equipped with his knowledge and skill set in model booking and production coordination, he began pursuing photography full time.

Now with over 10 years of large production experience in the industry, Codis has worked with a wide array of brands including trademark names such as Target, Under Armour, and the Oprah Magazine.

Codis believes that the best end-product can only be achieved by a talented team working together, and has had the utmost pleasure of collaborating with talented crew both in Miami and Los Angeles, where he currently resides and works.

Dane Gregory Meyer is a West Coast photographer based in the Seattle-Tacoma, WA area. He has been shooting commercially since 1988.

His work has focused on interiors, architecture and people. He has served many leading businesses, organisations, hospitals, banks, architects, designers, developers, contractors, artisans, artists, publications, and ad agencies. His work has often resulted in both regional and national awards for his clients.

Simplicity is a hallmark of both Dane’s work and his work methods. His naturalistic style eschews the fussy, the trendy, instead embracing a “less is better” philosophy that seeks to reveal story and depth.

Dane also shoots fine-arts images and is an active part of the local visual arts community. In 1992, he took an exhibit of Pacific Northwest fine-arts photography to Vladivostok, Russia, and hosted an exchange exhibit in Tacoma. Vladivostok had been closed to both Russian and foreign visitors for many decades, and the exhibit there was part of the celebration of its opening.

Eleni Fragou studied photography in the technological educational institute of Athens. Resort and architectural photography have been at the core of her work during her 20-year career. As a result she can get very demanding projects, give the right input and feeling to the pictures and lead the marketing campaign of any hotel to success.

Capturing the experiences that the guests and travellers can have in a hotel or resort is the most important thing to Eleni. It is essential when inviting people from all over the world to your hotel to show them your hospitality.

Architectural elements, design, light, environment and the "feeling" of a space, are all necessary elements that she combines to make a photography project a success.

Her professional experience in the fields of communication and advertisement both in Greece as well as abroad, is a key factor in the creation of imagery that communicates with people while maintaining its artistic nature.

Enrique Serrano is a commercial photographer shooting for architects, interior designers and hotels. His approach is to go beyond and try to capture the mood, the atmosphere, the emotions every space creates, not only documenting the physical structures.

Enrique aims for his photography to be both realistic and artistic at the same time, something he can achieve through his unique style of lighting spaces. The result produces high impact images that engage the viewer's eye in a visual and sensorial experience, allowing his clients to reach very demanding target markets in new ways.

He is based in Mexico and available to work worldwide. Visit his website to see his full portfolio.

Internationally acclaimed and exhibited, Florian W. Mueller offers a diverse range of themes that recognise the uniqueness of things and their appearances. Like in architecture photography, he finds angles, perspectives and unique views to extract the beauty and exceptionality of buildings.

Florian captures architecture in beautifully abstracted, sometimes poetic ways. As an answer to the endless flood of images and greed for perfection existent today, he sees the necessity to change perspectives, taking the viewer in an entirely different direction.

Mark Ballogg is an architectural photographer based in Chicago. Shooting across the US and abroad, he pairs a traditionalist’s eye with the latest technology to create high quality, visually complex images blended with grace and simplicity.

As a 30-year veteran of the industry, Mark works to highlight each client’s vision while finding the hidden, often surprising angles that best feature the subject matter. He believes every subject has a point at which its expressive potential is fully realized, and consistently strives to reach that point.

"An appreciation of architecture is in my blood, having been raised for the first four years of my life in a 16th Century manor house, renovated by my father.

In 1989, I borrowed an SLR and on my first visit to Florida I photographed downtown Tampa at night; it really was a case of bright lights, big city. In 1990, I visited Hong Kong and bought my first SLR, also landing upon New York City for the first time; I photographed the skyscrapers of Manhattan extensively. Standing before tall structures, I marvel at the feat of engineering and the power of design and building technology.

As a mature student, I studied interior design in London. I feel strongly aware of the influence an interior has on one's life, particularly in a residential scenario.

Photography and design have entwined to shape my work life as an architectural and interiors photographer."

Piotr Gesicki has over 25 years of professional international experience working for corporate clients including Accor Hotels, Raffles Europejski Hotel, IHG, Indigo Warsaw Hotel, InterContinental, PURO Hotels, Nestlé, Novartis, ZenithOptimedia, Lucent Technologies, Poujoulat, Royal Bank of Scotland and Scania, among many others.

He has also been shooting for magazines including Elle Decoration, Newsweek, Forbes, Time, Weranda and Dobre Wnętrze.

Piotr has also been working with agencies including Gap Interiors, Getty Images, Forum - Polska Agencja Fotografów and PAI Interpress as well as daily papers The Chicago Tribune, The Herald Tribune, Rzeczpospolita and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna to name only a few.

Ryan Maheu is living his dream. Since trading-in his Swiss-made chisels and Japanese handsaws for analogue and digital photography, you can catch him spending his days crafting beautiful imagery for clients that believe a space is so much more than just space.

With a deep appreciation of the fundamentals of film and an almost spiritual philosophy for the art, it’s clear after working with Ryan that he can bring that belief to life in his work.

Driven by his love of design, Ryan attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the New England School of Photography where he was awarded Honors in Advertising Photography, Portfolio Honors and the Tyler Munroe ACES Award. These three awards are the highest given by the school. His training in furniture making and boat building also gives him a unique appreciation for everyday structures.

“It’s a high I am always chasing; one I only catch when everything comes together at 1/100th of a second.”

"We believe architecture and interiors are living entities that can photographically be alchemized to tell an authentic story.

Every photography assignment begins with a deep understanding of the purpose of the pictures. We question the status quo with the end-objective of developing a visual language of 'feeling' for the brand that should inspire consumers.

Once the clarity of purpose is defined, a visual strategy is developed to create a distinctive photography style that will inspire and influence the targeted consumer. Sudhir's style is to use large revealing shots of the brand's ethos and values by amalgamating strong compositions, complex lighting and advanced post editing techniques to tell a simple yet emotive story that intuitively touches the audience.

The positive qualitative results for our clients including the numerous national and international awards are a testament to our diligence of approach, deep thinking and techie-fuzzy methodology of photography execution."