Paradise on King

pete4130

lisatiffany

I'll be honest I wouldn't walk in there without a hazmat suit but they are some great shots right there. Whats the story behind it all?

CabanSail

All your rooms look the same .... no matter where in the world they are.

dazftw

Did you move house?

pete4130

They are tester shots for a friends house I'm starting to document. These photos are pretty much what I don't want it to look like. The house is a little all over the place right now as there are people in the middle of moving out and moving in, with some people staying in the living room until they finally move out, that explains the mess.

The house is actually amazing and the images show the opposite of how it really feels. It's a 7 bedroom house, inhabited by the most relaxed, liberal happy people. It's a very spiritual house and until I get the images I really want it's hard to articulate. To accompany the internal shots are going to be a series of portraits similar to this one. Each room has its own personality that reflects the person living in it. The empty room reflects the guy who moved out suddenly leaving 8 weeks rent owed.




It's more of a long term project for me that can't really be planned out as to when and how to shoot. It's more of a circumstance of being at the house a lot and just shooting it. All the people that live there are really cool/happy about the idea of them and their house being documented. The house has a real soul to it, a real lived in and loved feel to it.

Like I said, the photos are from me just hanging out, drinking tea, shooting photos in the house for 3 hours one morning earlier in the week to see how and what I want to shoot. These are exactly how I don't want it to look but have their own feel and appeal.

@Daz- Yeah, I moved house after being homeless for 8 weeks. Just around the corner nearer Dan Murphy's way cheaper and just as nice! Oh yeah, been having some ripper surfs lately too :P

dazftw

pete4130 wrote: »

They are tester shots for a friends house I'm starting to document. These photos are pretty much what I don't want it to look like. The house is a little all over the place right now as there are people in the middle of moving out and moving in, with some people staying in the living room until they finally move out, that explains the mess.

The house is actually amazing and the images show the opposite of how it really feels. It's a 7 bedroom house, inhabited by the most relaxed, liberal happy people. It's a very spiritual house and until I get the images I really want it's hard to articulate. To accompany the internal shots are going to be a series of portraits similar to this one. Each room has its own personality that reflects the person living in it. The empty room reflects the guy who moved out suddenly leaving 8 weeks rent owed.




It's more of a long term project for me that can't really be planned out as to when and how to shoot. It's more of a circumstance of being at the house a lot and just shooting it. All the people that live there are really cool/happy about the idea of them and their house being documented. The house has a real soul to it, a real lived in and loved feel to it.

Like I said, the photos are from me just hanging out, drinking tea, shooting photos in the house for 3 hours one morning earlier in the week to see how and what I want to shoot. These are exactly how I don't want it to look but have their own feel and appeal.

@Daz- Yeah, I moved house after being homeless for 8 weeks. Just around the corner nearer Dan Murphy's way cheaper and just as nice! Oh yeah, been having some ripper surfs lately too :P

Feck off

lisatiffany

Great description and it sounds like a good project. The newer photo you added to the thread, I could swear I saw that recently somewhere and loved the lighting and tones. Well done.

pete4130

lisatiffany wrote: »

Great description and it sounds like a good project. The newer photo you added to the thread, I could swear I saw that recently somewhere and loved the lighting and tones. Well done.

I posted it in the random thread a few weeks ago.

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magicbastarder

top notch.

pete4130

Thanks. I'm still only about 1/3 the way through phase 1 of the whole project which has about 3-4 phases (self imposed phases relating to different aspects of the house). These are just the over views of the room before actually exploring the delicate intimacies of the house and the portraits of the occupants.

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dakar

Having sat under the big grey softbox of an Irish 'summer' sky for the last few weeks, the light in these is beautiful.

Appetite whetted for more.

pete4130