People in Real Estate Photography?

I was recently brought on by Tishman Speyer, a real estate company, to shoot a shared work space in the Franklin Building in Chicago that they’ve recently completed called Studio. In a fun twist, they asked me to roll with a lifestyle approach, giving them a more editorial look by incorporating some humans…which is crazy outside the comfort zone of a lot of real estate work I’ve seen. Granted this firm is massive, has an advertising department with a budget and a cool creative director, but I’m hoping that this is a trend. All too often, I hear of shooters (myself included) being asked to come in and make a pile of not lit images from the corners of rooms with a wide angle lens and send off unedited images same day. It was lovely to work with a real estate company that took the time to understand and value good photography and to give me license to play a little bit and really give them what I feel is killer work. I really enjoyed this one, here’re some images…