RE: I am much more at home in a dense urban environment, because it’s what I know best. TP: With all this urban work, are you more at home in the city or in the country? I hope people find stimulation in the act of ‘seeing’ the wondrous places that surround them, no matter what they are. Honestly, I’ve never given any thought to what interests my photos encourage, whether architecture or anything else. REE: I find that mostly to be a result of how long I’ve been on Instagram. TP: You’ve got plenty of Instagram followers – is encouraging interest in architecture something you’re keen on? These are not portraits of people that I’m shooting, but portraits of how a place makes me feel. The – mostly – strangers in many of my architectural photos add a sense of life, scale and depth. REE: I love the humanity that people add.
TP: Your photos often include people – what do you think human figures to architectural photography? That has me gravitate to either very classic architectural places with colonnades or arches, for example, and very contemporary new buildings. Maybe it’s my way of making order out of chaos, peace out of tumult. Composition and geometry are often central in my photos. REE: I love to explore shapes, colour and visual rhythm. TP: Your architecture photography is very clean – what makes a structure catch your eye? I like to take my time looking for places to photograph, finding the right composition and waiting for my shots to unfold in a way that I like. Ruth Efrati Epstein: You will see selections here from Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Miami Beach, Granada, Barcelona and Jerusalem. THE PLUS: Where are the buildings you’ve included here? When do you take these photos? This selection of spotless architectural photography was taken during her travels across the US and abroad, and forms part of a larger collection of work that’s the result of what has become a healing and meditative photographic process for Ruth. “Storytelling is key to me, and I prefer to share Instagram images that allow people to interpret their own meaning.” What’s different about her work is the narrative allure of human figures among the structural forms. For this Chicago-based photographer, it was the app’s on-the-move functionality and extensive community of like-minded and engaged photographers that cinched her interest, and she now publishes a diverse collection of portraiture, street photography, architectural, and abstract images under the handle an eye for aesthetic detail is what you pick up in a career like Ruth’s, editing films for advertising, cinema, corporations, and not-for-profits alongside some of the world’s best cinematographers. One Photographer’s Love of the App, and Our Love of the ResultsĪ true contemporary photographer, Ruth Efrati Epstein‘s love of photography was born on Instagram in 2011 when she first got the app on her (then) new iPhone 4s.
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