Commission — 001
Interiors
Long Room
Client
Private commission
Category
Interiors
Year
2025
16×20 Fujiflex · C-type · edition of six
The Long Room — one building, two hours, no lights brought in
The photograph — 002
The frame that ran
16×20 Fujiflex · C-type · edition of six
The brief — 003
Private commission
One building, two hours, no lights brought in. A Georgian long room that had been restored and was about to be furnished, photographed in the two-hour window between the scaffolding coming down and the first van arriving.
The architects wanted it empty. Empty is what an architectural photograph usually is, and it is why architectural photographs are hard to look at for more than a second.
Frames — as shot
Frames as shot
Frame 02 · fourteen months on site, ninety seconds in shot
Frame 05 · midday, eleven stops from the glass to the floor
The approach — 004
How it was made
We asked for one person and were given the site foreman, who had been in the building for fourteen months and did not want to be in a photograph. He agreed to stand at the far end and look out of a window, which is the least a person can do in a picture and exactly enough.
Two hours, eight sheets, three usable. Tall windows at midday give you eleven stops between the glass and the floor; colour negative holds about ten of them, so the exposure was placed for the floor and the windows were allowed to go.
Frame — full width
One frame, full width
Frame 07 · the last sheet of the day
The outcome — 005
2025
Three frames delivered. The architects used the one with the foreman in it, having asked for empty.
The room has furniture in it now and looks like a room. These are the only pictures of it as a space.
The print — 006
Editions close at twelve
Specification
16×20 Fujiflex · C-type · edition of six
Process
Chromogenic C-type, RA-4, printed wet
Turnaround
Ten to twelve weeks from the last exposure
Signed
On the verso, numbered, with the negative reference
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