Light and shadow: there is no photography and no architecture without these two. My conviction that a good architect can visualise how a structure will transform beneath different tricks of light, giving the building new life. The photographer just needs to be there at the right time to witness it. Only at these key moments can we understand the architect’s intent. As important as time is – so is space. When you stand on the optimum spot at the perfect time of day, you will experience the building’s creation in its fullness. Everything else fades away behind the muted song of the building.

 

My name is Tamas Santa. I was born in Makó, Hungary in 1986. I live in Hove, England.

I studied photography at Budapesti Szolgáltató és Kézművesipari Szakképző Iskola (Budapest, Hungary), known as the Photography School of the Prater Street.

 

My interest in architectural photography centres around buildings that have an interplay with light at the core of their design, a sort of symbiotic relationship between the structure and light in which it seems that the two are no longer separable and eventually, light seems to radiate from the bricks themselves.