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Method · January 2025 · 3 minute read

photographing interiors with natural light

Natural light is the closest a photograph can get to the truth of a room. It asks for patience — and rewards it.

London living room with natural light across plasterwork

There is a particular quality to a London room in the late morning, when light moves slowly across plaster and finds its way into the corners. Photographing interiors with natural light is the practice of learning that movement.

Each room has its own hour. A north-facing drawing room behaves differently from a south-facing kitchen; a hallway can change in five minutes. Working with that quietly, rather than against it, gives the images a sense of place.

It also gives a designer's work the chance to be seen as it is actually lived in — soft, atmospheric, true.