When Santander started building their new offices in Milton Keynes a few of years ago, we all watched with great interest as what has now become known as Unity Place started to take shape. As a commercial property photographer I couldn't wait to get inside and have a look round, and until that time came I had to settle for shooting the exterior for my stock image library!
Happily, once it was open, I was commissioned to shoot the press launch night of the top floor Unity Sky Bar, which included a set of interiors shots as well. And what a fabulous place it is - I can't wait to go back for cocktails . . .
On my way to the shoot, I also took the opportunity to capture some long exposures of the new building 'in the landscape' at blue hour, which were then licensed to Unity Place as part of the project. Shots like this can really help to bring a development to life, and to create something a little more dynamic than a static daytime shot with stationary vehicles.
Alongside this project, I was also approached by the London art buyers for Unity Place, who wanted to license some shots of Milton Keynes to go on the walls of the meeting rooms in the new x+why co-working space which forms part of the overall development. Once these were installed I went along to see them in situ and to grab a few shots, as you do! It's not often I get to photograph a meeting room that also has my images on the wall . . .
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