Pool-side

My architectural photography often centres around finding interesting details and abstracts. I enjoy focussing on shape and form, leaving unanswered questions and people wanting to know more. This approach was, for me, clearly the way to go on our family holiday to Tenerife.

We went to a family hotel for a week - it was fantastic as a change from our usual adventures, but I cant sit still and ended up exploring the hotel trying to find interesting subjects to photograph. My usual mantra of “spaces and places, no faces” was fairly difficult to align with due to my busy surroundings, however, I was able to find a few interesting things, that excluded sugar-charged toddlers and sun-burnt parents. The whole experience was really fun and re-enforced the concept that it doesn’t matter where you are - finding interesting photos is about being open to creativity.

My approach to taking images was to isolate specific details around the hotel, leaving most of the context out of the frame. I wanted to capture the mood of the place - the images I created, try to describe the feeling of a summer holiday, rather than documenting the specific location. I am not trying to win any awards with these images - this was about just having some fun. I searched for subjects to photograph that people would recognise or relate to - things that would evoke a memory or a feeling of nostalgia.