Through the lens of the camera, small spaces become large. They are fantasies, but they are also real.

Architectural models are typically photographed as objects. I bring the camera inside the model and manipulate the lens to create an illusion. By decreasing the aperture to increase depth of field (among other tricks) I change the perceived scale of the space.

This technique opens up possibilities beyond the representation of design proposals. It allows us to imagine inhabiting spaces that are too small to go inside. Fine textures become huge. Minuscule accidents become spaces to explore. The world that arises through the photographs is not virtual—it is real material, real texture and real light. And yet it is a fantasy, an imagined experience. The photographs sometimes engender longing or yearning in the viewer, a desire to go to places we cannot go. What is interesting is that this desire is not for another world, but for this one: we long to inhabit real spaces in a new way.