This image was made from the top of a twelve foot ladder situated on the stairway itself, and held solid by two assistants. Directly to the left, out of the frame, there was a media screen about twenty feet in height and at least eight feet wide. The screen was brightly illuminated, changing background colors from red to blue, to orange to purple. Turning it off, or covering it was not an option, so it was up to me to choose colors. I chose purple, because it mixed well with the natural light coming in from the left wall – thus the lavender spill that pervades the space.

Now the Ramon C. Cortines School of the Performing Arts, this school was known as High School #9 when I photographed it for the architects.  Coop Himmelb(l)au has since published a monograph by that name (High School #9) with many of my images included. Any survey of architecture or architectural photography in Los Angeles would be incomplete without photographs of this school. It is one of an ensemble of buildings on or near California Plaza designed by important international architects including the Los Angeles Cathedral, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Broad Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Eli Broad was instrumental in making this building happen, and a strong source of financial support for the project.

Populous Architects of Kansas City wanted a new set of photographs of a recent project - the Anaheim Convention Center expansion - to show their project in use and to show the people who use their projects. After all, Populous was so named because they wanted to rebrand their firm as a people oriented architecture and design firm for large public projects.

This remarkable building received a recent major renovation from my client Hodgetts+Fung Architecture and Design. The original building was designed by a city engineer who had a vision for something modern and different than most city buildings. He built up berms on site, to create molds for the clam shell ribs visible in the original ceiling. Hodgetts + Fung added a dynamic catwalk and mechanicals structure supported by an arch spanning the entire stage. The also added a state of the art LED light system hidden in the metal “sails” visible along the right (rear) side of the house. The effect is a dynamic combination of engineering and aesthetics for Culver City High School.

This image required intensive work with a translator, five staff members, and a multi-layered composite in order to get all the lighting and activity into one file. I’m very happy and proud of this photograph, taken in Beirut in 2014.

The Pacoima Neighborhood City Hall is a community center that holds offices for the city councilman and other city officials, while hosting neighborhood activities and programs. My client wanted to show the casual attitude of the building, and its layout with outdoor space and a modern feel..

The interior of the Pasadena City College Center for the Arts, Designed by A.C. Martin.

A wall of live roses installed on a walk-in cube in the Eve Saint Laurent Rive Droit Store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills celebrating the Valentines Day Collection, 2020.

For Eve Saint Laurent in Beverly Hills, project photographs of a $50000 installation of live red roses on Valentines Day, 2020.

This is one of several interior photographs we did for Mykita of Berlin in the Los Angeles flagship store in the Eastern Columbia Building, a landmark location in downtown Los Angeles.

This newly refurbished home in the Hollywood Hills by Arthur Golding Architects, was originally a common tract home. The new design is clearly a transformation to California modernism with an indoor-outdoor life-style and an open, airy feel to the space. I was sitting on a wall in the swimming pool in order to get the camera low enough to shoot under the table and into the kitchen at the far end. I got soaked, and the owner occupant was kind enough to lend me a dry pair of shorts to wear home.

This villa designed by French architect Raoul Véreny takes its shape and materials from a traditional shepherd's home, with steps on the left going up to the roof where his sheep were kept safe from predators. There were no sheep to be seen. The humble presentiment hides the some four thousand square foot structure behind it– three more levels in modern glass and wood cascading down the mountainside, ending in a flower garden at the top of a cliff with a view of Beirut and the Mediterranean in the distance.

Sometimes it's simply the facade and the way it presents itself as an emblem of the building's design that is the most compelling architectural statement for a photograph.

The dining and kitchen area in a beautiful luxury home in Bel Aire, designed by Michele Saee.

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