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Stephen Taylor Court in Dezeen12.22 / 90for90 – Vajrasana Buddhist Centre03.22 / Bath Abbey in L+D10.21 / 100 Liverpool Street in arc10.21 / Bath Abbey on FCB Studios Blog04.21 / Knole House in Lighting Journal03.21 / Green Heart Birmingham in arc02.21 / Westminster Abbey in A1 Lighting10.20 / The Prince Akatoki in arc06.20 / #onephotochallenge05.20 / Norwich Cathedral in L+D03.20 / Tombola House in RIBA Journal12.19 / Illuminated River at Lightspace11.19 / Illuminated River in Architectural Record11.19 / The Architecture of Intuition10.19 / Gasholders in L+D10.19 / Up and Down09.19 / Tombola House in AJ09.19 / Illuminated River in arc09.19 / Royal Academy in Lighthinking06.19 / Watching Paint Dry06.19 / Glover’s Alley in B-EAT05.19 / English City Gardens in Arc05.19 / Gathering Light04.19 / Signs of Life03.19 / The (un)Illuminated River03.19 / Gasholders in Lighting10.18 / Architectural Photography Awards 201810.18 / The Royal Academy09.18 / T5 First Wing featured in Arc02.18 / Mithras image in Architectural Review02.18 / Bloomberg London in AJ12.17 / Lansdowne Club in FX05.17 / Take it as it comes01.17 / Made of Light Too website launched01.17 / Where is Everybody?11.16 / Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards10.16 / Appropriate Light, Serpentine Pavilion10.16 / Gasholder 8 in mondoarc10.16 / No Drama10.16 / Every Day is a Good Day09.16 / Sunset + 20 minutes09.16 / Appropriate Light, Turner Contemporary Margate08.16 / Guinness Storehouse in Lighting Magazine06.16 / 71 Queensway in the AJ05.16 / In Context04.16 / CP Hart Showroom in darc magazine03.16 / Fuzzy Boundaries03.16 / Oxford Brookes in Blueprint02.16 / Personal project on Documentary Platform01.16 / Oxford Brookes in Lighting/Blueprint12.15 / Is it possible to photograph the lights going on and off?07.15 / Feature in Lighting04.15 / Restoring the Light04.15 / Waiting for a Solar Eclipse03.15 / In Praise of Darkness10.14 / Sensing Spaces01.14 / Creative Review Award11.13 / Nocturnal Change06.13 / The Logistics of Space05.13 /
Up and Down 09.19
I knew that this scene reminded me of something the instant I saw it. We were at the Archabbey Pannonhalma in Hungary to photograph the new lighting installation by Speirs+Major which had been developed alongside an architectural refurbishment by John Pawson. The lighting was being focussed at this stage, final adjustments being made and I was waiting for the go ahead to photograph. I had to be quick, I didn’t have time to change the lens but I liked the picture that resulted.
Last month at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam I saw the painting ‘Iconaclism in a Church’ by Dirck van Delen (1630) and realised agin what it was that I had half remembered, this was the picture that I had seen somewhere before. The painting shows a church in August 1566 where Protestants are tearing down a statue from its plinth, countless statues and alterpieces were destroyed in churches throughout the Netherlands, a scene rarely depicted in dutch art.
At Pannonhalma it is a scene of restoration and illumination, the opposite in many ways and it makes a nice echo from the painting.