Buildings Photograph

摘要

While talking in superlatives about her love of architecture and the desire to 'capture the expression and dignity of buildings', Maryland photographer Dee Thompson isn't giving up the day job quite yet. Her father having worked in construction, she might have grown up surrounded by drawings of plans and elevations, but Thompson has been a lawyer for 30 years, currently an attorney to the US government, specialising in contract and environmental law. The latter, she claims, 'drawing you into notions of space and context', spurred her on to attend the technical courses that would help her to develop her second, photographic, skill set. 'I've always appreciated legal nuance - how law is about extrapolating base arguments to align them with higher principles,' she tells me. Perhaps that's why she believes that no single image can capture a building. 'In a different light they change to take on a particular look or character': nuance indeed.