The Magic of Interior Design

Interior design is magical. I think designers are amazing. They’re artists. Not artists whose masterpieces are hung on the walls, but instead artists whose masterpieces are the walls.

Design is about creating spaces which convey specific emotions. It’s about creating an environment that brings people into a new world, if only for a moment. Interior design is an immersive, interactive art medium which allows you to create the most intense and powerful installations imaginable: entire environments. You’re creating the spaces in which people will live and work. You’re creating a small piece of their world.

For me, the transition from interior design to photography was a natural progression. With interior design I was trying to bring my clients' vision to life. I was creating environments which evoked emotion and conveyed an idea.

Photography is similar. In fact, the entire reason I took up photography was for use in interiors. What do you do with a photograph? What do you use them for? I suppose I could shoot models for magazines or become a photojournalist. However, this wasn’t me. I fell in love with photography because it was an opportunity for me to enhance spaces even further. It allowed me to create the type of custom artwork that I would want to utilize in designing a space, thus creating an even more immersive environment. That's why all of my pieces are geared specifically toward use in design.

I feel a strong connection to interior design and architecture. To me, they have the power to convey vivid ideas and emotions, to sweep people away into entirely different worlds. There are certain buildings in Europe where you can literally feel history around you. It’s almost as though they enable you to experience the past. The transportation through time is palpable. You can touch it. Different buildings and streets and lamp posts in the same place would convey a totally different feeling. It’s amazing.

Likewise, a building can bring you to the future. There is a feeling you get walking through a contemporary building in the heart of Manhattan. You’re transported to a different world and you almost seem to be standing a little further along in time than you really are.

And this is the magic of design. It’s immersive. It’s transformative. It makes you forget your troubles and sucks you into an entirely different world for a moment.

With photography, my goal is to contribute to that. To create a changed environment through artwork. For me, photography is about providing a "palette" of resources for the designer to draw from in bringing their vision to life. That's why I'm not shooting images for a magazine or a book or something. I'm shooting images for interiors.

There are so many incredible things you can do with photographic artwork. You can build an entire room from a single piece. You can build a theme around a collage or a triptych. Emotions, ideas, tensions, relaxations…an image can help bring about an entirely different environment.

In a way, I still feel like I’m being an interior designer—but with a camera. I’m connecting with thousands of designers all over the world as a partner on their projects. I’m bringing them photographic artwork to help them create exactly the right vibe for their project.

And that’s why photography and design are connected for me. Because there is something profoundly valuable about creating new and exciting environments.

And I want to be a part of it.