Barton Taylor
I am a Sydney based commercial photographer specialising in the documentation of architecture and interior design. I spend my days chasing shadows around and rearranging the furniture in strangers’ houses, nestled in gardens, gutters, under the stairs, in various weird contortions, waiting patiently for the sun to come back out; trying not to take myself too seriously, but deeply serious about my work.

When not photographing the built environment I quietly work away at an ever expanding body of largely photo-based conceptual ‘art’ work. The focus of this work is most often detritus, ephemera, inventories of things, what I’d refer to as a sort of pop-anthropology.

The Project
What would generally be a prosaic subject presented a myriad of beautiful photographic opportunities. Beyond aesthetics the new carpark incorporates a large solar array to charge up to 75 staff cars, and send excess power to the hospital, fulfilling it’s raison d’être and simultaneously helping counter the negative outcomes that usage typically presents.
My goal was to highlight the experience of the design as it changed through the light and conditions, how a carpark could create a little bit of joy in a usually mundane task. Otherwise from a purely formalistic perspective, as an exercise in image making it was quite a delight for a photographer with new topographic-esque compulsions. Featuring dragonfly motifs in the facade based upon the work ‘Dance of the Dragonflies’ by Dharug artist Leanne Tobi.

Architect: Billard Lease Partnership, Kane Constructions, Leanne Tobin