Interior Photography in Wanowrie, Pune

A room with somebody in it

Interior photography almost always excludes people, and it is worth asking why.

Empty rooms show the work clearly, which is the argument, and they also show a space nobody has ever used.

A single figure in a frame changes what the photograph is about. It gives scale, it shows how the space is meant to be moved through, and it stops the room reading as a showroom.

For a designer that is frequently more persuasive, because a prospective client is imagining living there rather than admiring joinery.

The empty set still gets shot and it is what most publications want, so nothing is lost by having both.

It costs a few frames and one willing person, who does not have to be identifiable or even in focus.

It is worth asking for, because almost nobody does and it changes how a portfolio reads.

It is worth photographing a space in use as well as finished, where the client is willing.

A kitchen mid-cooking, a chair somebody is actually sitting in, a table with things on it. Designed spaces are made to be used and are almost only ever shown empty.

For a designer that is a genuinely differentiating set, because almost every portfolio contains the empty version.

It is worth arranging on a return visit rather than at handover, since the space needs to be lived in for it to be true.

A short second visit some months later produces material nobody else has.

Very few practices do it and the ones that do tend to be the ones people remember.