Syam Sreesylam

he anatomy of the architecture is crucial for architectural photography. The groundwork to my process is in understanding the layers of the built and the unbuilt. When I visit the site prior to the shoot, which I adamantly do, the experience lends me an intuitive guidance that further acts as the compass to my focus. Often portraying the user in its abode is a tool in signifying the relationship between people and architecture, the scale, the ergonomics, the way the users fit effortlessly into their territory or rather the other way around. If you ask me, I’d say the shadow is the protagonist in my brief visual narratives. I’m ever fascinated by the playfulness of the natural light, flirting with the contours of the naked form, creating unique frames that are impossible to be recreated. As it is in the dark beside the light that lies the depth, what just an ample of light can do, bracing on textures and shapes of surfaces is pure magic. It is a joy to bring about new patterns in photography through constant exploration and experimentation. I believe that in framing architecture, there has to be loose ends. The photograph has to convey, yet invoke a curiosity for imagination, for unique personal perceptions. It is not an attempt of merely glamorizing the architecture, but rather in withholding the mystique quality of the built that is primarily experiential than imagery. After all, a photographer only gives you hints to the surprising spatial enigma that a work of architecture beholds.