Photographer Spotlight: Manolo Yllera

Yesterday on the way home from the gym, am driving through the forest and I realised that everything was on the verge of being totally rejuvinated. On the verge of bloom. The forest park is all green and pretty again and not parched by frost and snow and more often than not the sun is bright and yellow above the pine trees. It's definitely Spring and colour is back. The Spanish do colour so well. And I always go to Nuevo Estilo or AD Espana to seek it out. And so I know I love Manolo Yllera's photography.  e does work for AD Espana and Nuevo Estilo. He looks for the colour in any room and focuses on it. So I went to stalk him on instagram to see more of his perspective.

We're looking forward to Easter...so much so that we took the Easter egg basket to pick wild flowers in the forest. It's officially Spring.

Matthew Williams Interior Photography

I went there for the design. But I left his website with a lot of random questions, like, does he only shoot hipster homes? And, is it the case that women are raised to want a cluttered house with a picket fence and 2.5 kids whereas men are raised to want perpetual bachelorhood, a sleek car and expensive kitchenware? Look at the dude in the last picture in his modern, black kitchen and with his ego-stroking portrait. You just know he has no kids and drives some sleek silver/chrome-looking car. I am thinking that I am gonna make a big effort to raise my daughter so she knows that that dude's life is an option.

Marco Bertolini Photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sometimes when I go on the hunt for interior décor I search out designers and other times I head in the other direction-- I look for the photographer who shot the interior. Interior designers can have significant talent and that talent may amount to nothing if the stylist and photographer do not find an interesting, artistic or visually appealing way of presenting the designer's work. So much is owed to the photographer's good eye. Case in point: Marco Bertolini.

What Would I See: Lee Mindel

 

I have often wondered, if I were an artist, a photographer, an architect, what would I see as a rambled around the world? How would it inspire my work? Lee Mindel is an architect "with a near photographic memory" who has designed for Sting and Ralph Lauren, among others. He says he is moved by the strength, simplicity and rigour of Louis Khan's buildings; and travels with no fewer than four cameras, all with different lenses, because he is not a formally-trained photographer and struggles with changing lens. I went to play voyeur at instagram again because I wanted to see what an architect sees.

 

 

Photos from Lee Mindel's Instagram, 1st Dibs and Wall Street Journal

 

You can definitely see that Mindel gravitates to clean lines, symmetry and uniformity in layout. It appears that everything he sees in real life is edited via a camera lens and then processed-- even his rooms look as though he designed them, and then took a camera, viewed the finished room through its lens and proceeded to edit the final space.

 

 

 

 

Photographer Love: Richard Powers

See More of Richard Powers' Work Here