JO UNDERHILL / STRUCTURALEYE

A few weeks ago I visited and photographed Salters' Hall in London for my ongoing Beauitful Brutalism photography project. The Hall was completed in 1976 with initial design concept by Sir Basil Spence and last year it was refurbished by De Metz Forbes Knight Architects. The building sits in the city with the Barbican and part of the London Wall as neighbours. The exterior has dramatic massing and tooled concrete which was painted white in the '90's. In the interior of the hall, and also repeated within the new reception area, is gorgeous ash panelling as can be seen in the image above. The interior of the livery hall was fantastic to photograph with an amazing carpet that had been designed especially with a replicating salt cell pattern. Unfortunately there is a lot of building work going on around the building so I could only photograph a few exterior details but will be returning later on in the year to finish the exterior photography once the walk ways and...

Back in April I had the pleasure of photographing ceramicist Jane Cairns in her studio situated by the Thames in London. It was great to spend the day with Jane and get shown the places she visits along the edge of the Thames which gives her inspiration for her work. It was lovely to see my images being used in her latest newsletter, which can be seen here .

It was great to see Dezeen published a lovely feature on The Museum of Making by White Arkitekter last week. The feature can be seen here and to view the whole project please take a look at my website .

I was recently commissioned by White Arkitekter to photograph the construction and finished pavilion for Clerkenwell Design Week 2016. The Museum of Making, a Swedish barn – references White Arkitekter’s Scandinavian heritage, transposing this agricultural motif into an urban context. White’s team had chosen to deconstruct this Scandinavian archetype and showcase its simplicity in a new way. As a photographer it's great to document the construction as well as the finished building or structure so this was a great commission and was fascinating to see Nicholas Alexander team build the pavilion over 4 days using Equitone Facades. Below is a series of photographs of the process -

A few weeks ago between the 11-17 April it was National Gardening Week and to celebrate RIBA Collections looked through their collection of architectural images and chose different images daily that highlighted the relationship between architecture and gardens. I was thrilled to see one of my images of The London College of Fashion terrace by StudioWeave was chosen by Wilson Yau. The complete article can be seen here and all the photographs from the whole project can be seen on my website .

RIBA has recently updated their photolibrary website and have a new Feature page which highlights noteworthy photographers, architects and collections. As my architectural photography archive is represented by RIBApix I'm very proud my Brutalist Photography has been chosen as one of the features on this new resource. To read more about myself and my photography highlighted by RIBA please visit their Features Page .

At the beginning of this month I had great pleasure working again with ceramic artist Amy Jayne Hughes photographing her new work which will be exhibited at London Design Festival and Britsih Ceramics Biennial . At the moment Amy is undertaking a residency at the V&A Museum and the ceramics workshop was the backdrop to the shoot which was a great space to photograph in and highlight the new work. The work explores the idea of the handmade with the 'factory-made' so we wanted to set the ceramics in-situ to where they had been made. It was a great shoot and I always really enjoy collaborating with Amy. The London Design Festival runs from 19-27 September and the British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke is on from 26 September - 8 November.