Architectural photography and photographing buildings

Inigo is an architectural photographer based in Barcelona. He sells his work internationally to design and architecture magazines and publishers. His photographs have been published in Conde Nast Traveller, Domus, Phaidon and Wallpaper. He has an MA in Photography from Goldsmiths College.

He is a pro active photographer. He monitors new builds and approaches magazines to sell multiple images as a visual ’story’. He can sell the same story to several magazines around the world. He promotes 3 genres on his website: architecture, portraiture and documentary. He doesn’t consider his documentary work separate from commercial. Inigo shoots on film and scans the work on a flatbed scanner.

His equipment fits into a backpack. It is comprised of the versatile 5×4 Linhof Technikardan which is both a field camera and view camera in one! There is a fair amount of information about this camera on the net. Inigo handled the camera with ease and confidence. It took seconds to assemble and dis-assemble. It’s easy to move around with it on the tripod. A pretty good working tool , and very compact. He uses Quickload film so there is no weighty film holders. 3 lenses including a 72mm wide lens. He has a variety of backs which allow him to shoot upto 6×12 using 120 roll film. A Minolta lightmeter and a meter for measuring colour temperature. A few filters plus a sturdy Manfrotto tripod, and not much more. He uses no additional lighting.

Some reference images taken on my Nokia N95 phone camera:

Linhof Technikardan camera.

Details of rail which locks to work as a field camera and unfolds to work as a view camera. Impressive!

Minolta colour temperature meter

Inigo has also works on documentary projects. He has a large body of work entitled El Dorado which he shot between 2000 and 2005. He has edited, printed and assembled a book and is looking for a publisher. He shot the project on a twin lens Rolleiflex.

We looked through a selection of my Gaza photographs. Inigo started to assemble them into sections finding common themes to group them. It was helpful and interesting to have another photographer look through my work.

Editing photographs can produce different results each time you do it. Trying to achieve a rythmn from one image to the next. Editing a book and editing an exhibition are two completely different tasks. Sometime too many images in an exhibition is like putting a book on the wall.

Inigo’s photography can be seen on his website: www.inigobujedo.com

~ by bip mistry on January 25, 2008.