It’s not easy to find a partner who understands the spirit of a place or project similarly to us. Every architect and investor knows this. We know it too. That’s why when photo shooting our projects we return to people thanks to whom our website, catalogues and other materials are consistent.
Martyna graduated photography in Łódź Film School (PWSFTviT). In interiors she looks for harmony and peace, that’s why during photo shooting she listens to jazz or silence. She has published in Elle, Elle Decoration, Czas na Wnętrze and M jak Mieszkanie among others. She cooperates with an Italian photography agency Photofoyer. Through view-finder she always looks with her left eye. She’s a mom of Mikołaj and has an affinity for interior design magazines from around the world. We’ve known each other long enough to ask her a few questions about personal perspective and methods of work.
How do you look at space? What do you see in it?
I look at interiors as if they were paintings, which you create in your head before touching a canvas with a brush. I look for rythm, common denominator for colours, textures, shapes. I respect ligh and follow it so that we don’t cross our paths. I attach importance to details – soft line of fabrics, the right angle of chairs. I like colour so I try to portray natural hues as faithfully as possible.
What has to be done with space so that it looks good on photographs?
Above all it should be well designed. Although sometimes half-baked spaces can look excellent on photographs. At times the skills of the photographer can “save” the interior and produce a great final effect. The appropriate positioning of furniture, removing unnecessary additions or adding a missing element improves the attractiveness of the interior. Small moves can bring harmony or shatter it. I like to have plants and favourite magazines on the photographs. In office or at home they can add lightness to the frame, breaking through pure form.
Can you see similarities between a photographer and architect?
When photographing I think about maintaining consistency. I want the photos to create a unified whole, to have a common melody. Architect works in a similar way, even though for him this music is constituted by functionality of the interior, aesthetic form, individual needs of the customer, budget. By connecting those “sounds” the architect creates a space which bears the hallmarks of thinking about a given place. My job is to record this thought in pictures.
