The latest Serpentine Pavilion, photographed by John Offenbach, looks like a life-size, brightly colored magic cocoon

The Serpentine Galleries are currently celebrating the 15th anniversary of their pavilion commission, whereby some of the world’s greatest architects design and build a temporary structure for the Serpentine’s lawn in London’s Kensington Gardens. Zahad Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Jean Nouvel, and Frank Gehry are among the greats who have designed a Serpentine Pavilion, and the […]

John Offenbach photographs the new Serpentine Pavilion in London, designed by Smiljan Radić

Each year since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London commissions a top architect to create a temporary pavilion on its grounds in the city’s Kensington area. And many of those years, John Offenbach has photographed in and around the pavilions both to showcase their architecture and to communicate the experience of interacting with them. This […]

John Offenbach photographs Zaha Hadid’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London

The Serpentine Sackler Gallery, designed by famed architect Zaha Hadid, opened last week in London, and the gallery asked John Offenbach to document the event. The gallery is housed in what was a gunpowder store in the early 1800s and is located a short walk from the Serpentine Gallery. John also shot installation images of […]

Nadav Kander photographs Anish Kapoor’s Olympic “Orbit”

. These two photos by Nadav Kander of the ArcelorMittal Orbit, a tower designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond that resides in London’s Olympic Park, appeared in Britain’s Financial Times Magazine this past weekend. Read “the Orbit – a dramatic, twisting tower of red metal – is London’s new Olympic landmark” here. . .

International Photography Awards winners announced

.The jurors of the 2011 International Photography Awards have named their selections for subcategory and category winners, and we’re ecstatic that Kwaku Alston, Matthias Clamer, Nadav Kander, and John Offenbach are among their favorites. Our congratulations to them and to their fellow winners. Well done! “Category winners,” the IPA’s site explains, “will move on as […]

New work: John Offenbach photographs the latest Serpentine Pavilion

The latest Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, commissioned each year by London’s Serpentine Gallery for summertime installation in Hyde Park, has just made its debut. A review in the U.K.’s Telegraph describes the structure, conceived by Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor, as “a garden within a garden.” “From the outside, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor’s pavilion is a […]

Spotlight: John Offenbach

John Offenbach is an award-winning editorial and advertising photographer whose images are often unfussy, tranquil, and dreamy. “I think of my pictures as having a light touch,” says John. “You could say they are considered, as opposed to snapped.” John has been shooting Travelers Insurance campaigns for a number of years for Fallon, Minneapolis, and […]

Summarizing your photography in two words

. In a recent interview with John Offenbach, Feature Shoot asked the photographer—whose portfolio spans architecture, landscapes, automotive, portraits, still life, and conceptual—to describe his work. His response? “Tidy, ordered.” Two words that say it all. That’s not easy to do. Hot Shoe magazine’s blog has devoted a whole post today to artist statements and […]

Personal work: Michael Wirth’s Shanghai

. Michael Wirth made his reputation as a beauty photographer, shooting for clients like Clairol, L’Oreal, Clarins Paris, and Nivea. But his passion for his art is more than skin deep. With “Shanghai,” he returns to what he describes as the basics of photography, immersing himself in a place and reporting on it with his […]

Photo gallery: Architecture—featuring images by Rolph Gobits, Kai Uwe Gundlach, Nadav Kander, and John Offenbach

Click on any of the photos below to view “Stockland Martel presents… Architecture,” a 26-image gallery featuring… .     . .

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