I just came across this great article on the incredibly gifted Robert Polidori. While I have long loved his work, I hadn’t heard or read much of a backstory on it. This article goes into some great detail about his start as a videographer and his switch into still photography as well as his work in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Traditional architectural photography is documentary. It’s intended to be aesthetically pleasing, of course, but the primary concern is to accurately depict the appearance of a structure. Most architectural photographers come to their craft through their love of architecture. Robert Polidori is different; he’s different in his approach and different in his motivation. He’s different in about as many ways as it’s possible to be different.

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