MARCEL MARSAN

I strive to capture visions of beauty. I believe that architecture is only understood when taken withing its natural and human context. Adopting a deliberately classical approach to my shots allows the subjects of the photographs – the buildings themselves – to shine. I try to capture the spatiality of buildings and contextualize them within their environment and how their users move around them, and, simply, makes them look stunning.

 In traditional architectural photography, the 'decisive moment' never had much relevance and very little attention was ever placed on factors external to the building being photographed. Passers-by, the car that stopped in the right place, the perfect cloud; these are the elements I like to add to his images. They add scale, but above all they give the image meaning – they also create a bridge to a bygone era of 1940s Hollywood that it’s reflected in my personal work.

My sensitivity as a photographer is easily explained. I’m the child of a family of talented amateur photographers. As long as I can remember I have been interested in “things”. I studied Material Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Florida and at the University of Alabama. In 1999 I open Studio M+M, an architecture firm with a focus on photographing buildings.