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
More than a beach house, a sympathetic but complete reimagining of a local icon, the unique shape of its existing roof — a way finding point for surfers — was retained as a defining motif. Ecological concerns were high on the agenda, including use of recycled materials and passive house principles.

The brief was to illustrate the sense of the cool and dark interior, a refuge on hot beach days — but concurrently the openness and connection to the beach — the warmth of the timber, texture of the materials, traces of the old house including the lower hallway with the imprint of the original roof used as form work, and other board form concrete created from remnant floorboards.

Architect/Designer: Alexander Symes Architect, Inn. Studio, Skylar Construction