Rory Gardiner

Rory Gardiner’s father was an architect and, says Gardiner, “he introduced me to photography itself, but also how buildings are put together.” Perhaps it was then inevitable that Gardiner has been photographing buildings ever since, both outside and in, with a passion for observing how people engage with their built environment, as well as a personal mission to “expand the temporality of how we look at architectural imagery.”

After studying photography in his home town of Melbourne, Australia, ahead of several years of assisting fashion photographers in London, Gardiner began his career in 2011 with a brand campaign for Tate Modern. He now shoots internationally in the UK, Australia, Switzerland, Mexico and the USA.

He predominantly shoots on film, enjoying the tactility of the analogue process, and his work is concerned with the real - whether that’s a bowlful of washing up in an otherwise perfect contemporary house, or the crumbs of an abandoned breakfast on a beautifully laid table. He has worked with brands from Aesop to Aston Martin; Chanel to Isokon, as well as collaborating with some of the world’s most prestigious architects including David Chipperfield, Christ and
Gantabein, Carmody and Groake, and Tatiana Bilbao. Editorially, his work has featured in Architectural Digest, Architectural Review, Cereal, Domus, Elle Deco, Rum ID and Wallpaper.

His personal projects focus on breaking down the aspirational nature of traditional and contemporary architectural photography.

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